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Richmond Relaxes Regulations On Building Homeless Shelters Richmond City Council approved zoning changes Monday that will allow homeless shelters to be built throughout more of the city. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News) Richmond City Council approved an ordinance Monday that would allow for homeless shelters to be built “by right” throughout more parts of the city. Right now, when someone wants to open a homeless shelter or transitional housing they have to go through a special permitting process. Even if they pass that hurdle, Richmond City Council can also block the development. Allowing these types of emergency and supportive housing “by right” would eliminate those barriers. ....
Richmond 300 revisited: City Council suggests tweaks to city master plan Images courtesy Richmond 300) 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. ....