When temperatures get in the 90s and the humidity makes you feel like you’re underwater anyway, why not take a dive into the pool? And how much more convenient it is to have a pool of your own. The problem with that, of course, is that you have to be able to afford it—and have enough land that you can lose several hundred square feet to a hole in the ground.
The map shows which areas of the comprehensive plan are seeing the most new swimming pools since January 2006, with number of building permits in parentheses.
Sources: County Community Development office; City Neighborhood Development Services office |
Which means if you’re building a pool, you probably live in the rural area. And indeed, of the roughly 90 building permits for pools issued since January 2006, 72 were in the rural area of Albemarle County.
The median value of the county pool built in the last 18 months is about $31,000, but four pools were valued at $100,000 or more. One is the “endless” pool for the new student complex, The Woodlands. Others are to complement multimillion dollar homes of private citizens in Farmington, Keswick and rural Albemarle—the latter at the residence of ACAC founder Phil Wendel.
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