The RTD’s A real space challenge presents overcrowded Woodville Elementary as an example of what can come of closing schools without building new ones. Woodville absorbed more than 100 children after Whitcomb Court Elementary School closed in 2006, and currently serves 573 students in a building with space for 530.

Motley’s will be auctioning for the city a group of 12 different properties (PDF), including undeveloped lots in Union Hill, Woodville, and Oakwood, on Wednesday, December 12th at 6:00PM.

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Woodville Elementary has been awarded a $3,000 Dominion Educational Partnership Grant for the 2007-2008 school year. The grant, awarded to school projects designed to improve math and science education for students in grades K–12, will fund a program that features field trips for students and parents to the James River and its parks. The trips will provide hands-on activities to supplement the students’ classroom studies in math and science. [via]

An early morning kitchen fire broke out at 1615 North 27th Street. No injuries were reported.

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Trulia Hindsight is an animated map of homes in the United States. The animations use the year the properties were built to show the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities over time. View the map.

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One of the take-aways from tonight’s 7th District Round Table (more on that later) is DataShare Metro Richmond, a great interface to US Census data on a city, regional, and neighborhood level.

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The folks at Pharrout and neighborhood resident Daniel (aka Farrell IT), building on an idea by Jon at River City Rapids, have put together Vacant Richmond, a new way to find out about and comment on the vacant housing around the neighborhood and the city.

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Following last week’s Sector 111 stats, here are year-to-date crime stats Sector 113 and the individual neighborhoods — and they are looking good…

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