The Agenda: Local government briefs for 7.12.21
BizSense file)
Proposed technology zone would include city BPOL tax exemptions
The Richmond City Council’s Finance and Economic Development Standing Committee will consider a proposed technology zone for the city at its 1 p.m. meeting Thursday.
Requested by Councilmembers Andreas Addison and Ann-Frances Lambert, the zone is aimed at fostering development and location of tech businesses in the city by exempting qualified businesses from paying the city’s Business, Professional and Occupational License tax for up to five years. The zone would cover the whole city and mirror a similar zone adopted in Norfolk.
The Agenda: Local government briefs for 4.5.21
Courtesy City of Richmond)
Street murals, TOD zoning on city planning agenda
The Richmond Planning Commission meets at 1:30 p.m. Monday. Full agenda here.
Business on the regular agenda includes a proposal from Bike Walk RVA to paint street murals and install wooden planter boxes as traffic-calming measures on Hull Street at 11th Street and at Lynnhaven and Wright avenues in the Oak Grove-Bellemeade neighborhood.
The murals would be painted by Richmond artist Silly Genius and are intended to enliven the areas and alert drivers to pedestrians and bicyclists. The murals would be multicolored and funded by Sports Backers/Bike Walk RVA through an AARP Community Challenge Grant.