July 17, 2008
Planning Commission meeting on June 2008 Draft Downtown Master Plan
The City of Richmond Planning Commission will discuss further revisions to and consider adoption of the June 2008 Draft Downtown Master Plan on Monday, July 21. The meeting is open to the public, but there will not be a public hearing. The discussion on the Downtown Master Plan will be held at the end of the regular meeting agenda and will begin no earlier than 6PM. The meeting will be held in the fifth floor conference room of City Hall.
Please visit the Downtown Master Plan web page to view the June 2008 draft plan and to view other information, including: achievements in the 1997 Downtown Plan, meeting minutes from public hearings, and information on other events that have occurred as part of the planning process.
A copy of the revised draft plan is also available for review at the following locations:
City Hall (900 E. Broad Street)
– 5th floor, Room 510
Libraries
– Main Branch (101 E. Franklin Street)
– Hull Street Branch (1400 Hull Street)
– Belmont Branch (3100 Ellwood Avenue)
– East End Branch (2414 R Street)
– North Avenue Branch (2901 North Avenue)
– Ginter Park Branch (1200 Westbrook Avenue)
– Broad Rock Branch (4820 Warwick Road)
– Westover Hills Branch (1408 Westover Hills Boulevard)
– West End Branch (5420 Patterson Avenue)
For more information contact Brooke Hardin, City of Richmond at (804) 646-6310 or Brooke.Hardin@richmondgov.com,
Meeting officially moved to council chambers – 6pm
It’s been a year since the huge public turnout to help craft the plan. Please turnout tonight at 6 pm and wear a “Pass the Plan” sticker. The discussions will go on for awhile so come down to City Hall whenever you can. Thanks.
We were set to close and start renovating a badly neglected historic house on Libby Terrace today. We sighed when we found foundation damage. We cringed when the termite damage was bad, and sellers wouldn’t repair it, but we pressed on. But between the change in the Master Plan we read about in the paper this morning, and the sellers being so upside-down on their finances that they can’t afford to sell… it won’t be happening. Will that once-beautiful house be the first casualty of Echo Harbor?