Real estate tax assessment notices are due to arrive in city mailboxes tomorrow and Thursday. Two unnamed City Council members who have been briefed by Richmond tax assessor Richie McKeithen say assessments could rise between 20 percent and 40 percent for some homes in the city’s 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th and 8th council districts. Some of the assessments are expected to jump so high that City Council members are already talking about a tax rate cut to cushion the blow.
[ from the RTD ]

Mayor Wilder and many other local government representatives held a town hall meeting at Armstrong High School on Tuesday night. Public turnout was high, and many citizens had a opportunity to speak.

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From the RTD’s Six months later: Gaston damage lingers: “When Charlie Field surveys this scene from his porch on the 200 block of North 36th Street, he sees “a God-awful mess.” Part of Chimborazo Park looks like a battlefield, he said.”

Yesterday when we quoted the RTD as reporting that “assessments could rise between 20 percent and 40 percent for some homes”, we though that meant that 40% was the high end. A quick check on some houses in the area, though, shows increases of over 200%!

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A volley of gunfire at around 11pm left at least 1 wounded. R Street between 23rd and 24th is taped off as police investigate the shooting.

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The Richmond Voice this week has an article about the official grand opening of the 25-year-old Franklin Military Academy’s new facilities on February 25th.

In the article 16 Under Sixteen, Style Weekly profiles 16 ‘remarkable kids’, including Laquisha Davis from Chimborazo Elementary.

Someone fired nine shots into a home at the corner of R Street and Oakwood Avenue at around 4:30AM Monday morning.

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A groundbreaking ceremony took place Tuesday afternoon as part of the $20 million project to turn the historic Nolde Bakery building into luxury condos. The condos project is scheduled to be finished later this year.

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