Avula re-ups Vision Zero pledge for safer Richmond streets
The goal of the city’s Vision Zero initiative is to end road fatalities and serious injuries by 2030.
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Citywide cultural heritage plan returns, modified to address fears about stifling housing development
Many residents see it as a critical roadmap for how the city can preserve its historic resources amid a sweeping zoning overhaul.
To some callers, RVA311 is the wrong number
From the outside, it’s easy to imagine RVA311 as an all-encompassing customer service system.
City officials aim for ‘middle ground’ on creation of FOIA library
Richmond policymakers want more time to study their options.
Richmond to seek proposals to redevelop city-owned parking lots in Shockoe, Manchester into affordable housing
The plans are part of a broader push by the city to repurpose properties Richmond owns but isn’t using for housing amid an affordability crisis.
Richmond officials set to choose between two competing ideas for a FOIA library
City Council will have to choose between the more comprehensive records library Gibson envisions or a narrower version proposed by Avula that would give city officials greater discretion over what documents to publish.
Richmond’s former FOIA officer faults city for ‘pattern of concealment’ in response to her lawsuit
“Taxpayers have spent too much money for the mayor to not know what’s going on in this very high-profile and expensive lawsuit.”
