Style Weekly has the story on how City Council seems to be closing ranks against the city’s planning director Rachel Flynn for for her flat rejection of amendments to the Downtown Master Plan that benefit the Echo Harbor : Critics of the process say those remaining amendments stem from the undue influence of private landholders [...]
A keen-eyed and hardworking reader sends in the breaking news: Dead body found on front porch on Melton Avenue. Wife of couple who just bought the place found the body this morning. Police have taped off the block. No additional details at moment. I have to get ready for work.
The Planning Commission yesterday voted in favor of raising the heights allowed for development along the river and also in favor of rezoning the interior of Union Hill to R-63.
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A conversation with Fulton’s Carl Otto left me reeling from his idea of what could be something very cool in the East End.
The south end of Fairmount has recently been blessed with 25 or so new street trees via the Urban Forestry Division, mostly along the 1000, 1100, and 1200 blocks of 21st and 22nd Streets. Anybody want to volunteer to help water these trees this summer?
The Church Hill Association has posted on their site the response from a GRTC representative to several questions submitted by CHA regarding the proposed GRTC Bus Transfer Center at Main Street Station.
New Vision Civic League meeting; RPS School Board meeting; Tuesday St. John’s Knitting Circle; Beginning Computer Classes for Adults; Chess class @ East End Library; Open Mic @ Poe’s; Better Housing Coalition community bus tours; CHA Board Meeting; Dedication of Sergeant John Henry Taylor’s Bench; MORE…
Capt. Odetta Johnson, Chief Norwood, Capt. Adrianne McLemore Eight months after Captain Ronca’s departure put the First Precinct in the hands of acting-commander Jack King, the Richmond Police Department announced today that Captain Odetta Johnson will be the new commander of First Precinct.
A fan (of the music? the drinks?) writes in to let everyone know about a show at Que Pasa this Saturday: I wanted to let you and other readers know that James (the very popular bartender at Patrick Henry’s and member of “River City High”) is performing a show at Que Pasa this coming Saturday [...]
Writing for Style Weekly, Thad Williamson describes the conflict and politics at the core of the Echo Harbor proposal: Should the public allow high-rise condos in a flood plain that blocks public view of the river, the very view that led William Byrd II to name the city Richmond? The developers, Falls Church-based USP Rocketts [...]
Fairfield Court ES, J.E.B. Stuart ES and Linwood Holton ES were 3 of 124 elementary schools recognized recently as Title I Distinguished Schools by the Virginia Department of Education. [via]
Sign up to sell lemonade and help “put the squeeze” on pediatric cancer! From July 17-19, 2009, children of all ages will set up lemonade stands across Virginia with one goal in mind-raising money for children living with cancer. Registration opens today, find a kid and sign up for a stand!
