According to a downtown property owner, the city is setting itself up for lawsuits for the audacity of creating a master plan. Read on:
With the stroke of a pen, Ms. Flynn has officially designated private property as a public park and arbitrarily reduced potential development on other private property — without compensating the owner. [...]
“The man,” in this case, being those leaders who attempt to denigrate public input, civic participation, and empowerment of the masses.
Stick it to him by showing up in your neighborhood to discuss how the Master Plan will affect your neighborhood.
Or go affect someone else’s neighborhood. That’s fine too.
Starting tonight.
The following is from an email [...]
This city is totally out of control.
Our attorney is trying to warn us:
Although the State owns a number of the buildings located within the area encompassed by the Plan, none of those State buildings must comply with any of the recommendations outlined in the Plan due to the State’s immunity from land use controls by [...]
…is an asset to our city.
While I usually write quick, reactionary pieces about Richmond, there are bloggers who write more thoughtful and nuanced posts about issues important to our city.
While my most recent post on the city’s planning commission and their idiotic attempts to trash the master plan rose to the top of RVABlogs most [...]
Inflammatory! Outrageous!
Who asked all these people what they thought should happen in Richmond? And why are they telling us what to do?
That’s the sentiment expressed (with my, ahem, rewording) about the master plan by planning commission members. The TD reports that several members were upset by Richmond residents’ request that the West Hospital at [...]
Planning fatigue may be setting in here in Richmond with the endless discussion & analysis of the Crupi report and the Dover & Kohl Master Plan. But there’s a few voices everyone should hear before tuning out the rest of the planning conversation.
Reading the following excellent commentaries will either 1) reinvigorate your desire to make [...]
It’s fitting on this first-in-a-while rainy day to write about the lack of transparency in our city government. Despite recent promising events, like the charette, Richmond’s politicos are rapidly returning to the status quo of obfuscation, backroom deals, and just plain old incompetency.
Story number one
Mayor Wilder cancels a town hall meeting to discuss [...]
Several bloggers and the TD have chimed in with their views of last night’s meeting. The consensus: too much talking and repetition from earlier meetings, but participants were diverse for a change and seemed to agree on the changes Richmond needs to make.
A rundown of the reports so far, with interesting quotes pulled out [...]
Apparently, Richmond has a disease. No word has been given on our prognosis. Will we recover? Is our case terminal? Are there any doctors out there who know how to cure us?
According to the headline of a recent Style article, we have a condition known as “Projectitis.”
The symptoms:
“searching for the Next Big Thing [...]
Our politicians are embarrassing us. And honestly, I can’t figure out who’s side I’m on- do I cheer for Wilder’s no-holds-barred, clean-up-city-government and piss-everyone-off campaign? Or do I join Council and the School Board in resisting Wilder’s anti-democratic megalomania while not accomplishing much themselves?
It’s like we’re navigating between Scylla and Charybdis.
I’ve been corresponding with RVA [...]
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