The Richmond Department of Public Works is working to improve safety for pedestrians at three major intersections in the city's Southside and East End neighborhoods.
The Agenda: Local government briefs for 4.5.21
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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.
Richmond 300 revisited: City Council suggests tweaks to city master plan
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Of the 17 goals, 73 objectives and 415 strategies detailed in the nearly 250-page Richmond 300 plan, City Council members see several glaring omissions that they want addressed with forthcoming amendments.
As they said they would do when they adopted the plan last month, councilmembers have submitted what they would like to see changed, removed or added to the years-in-the-making master plan update that’s meant to guide the city’s growth over the next 20 years.
What’s missing, members said in requests they submitted to Council President Cynthia Newbille are details on how the city plans to move forward on such things as improving public schools, transforming public housing and providing more housing options for lower-income residents.