Since our neighbor’s sudden, unexpected death this past April, people have found different ways to memorialize Tyler Potterfield. Now it looks like one of the more popular ideas is coming to fruition.

From Times Dispatch article:

The Richmond City Council is poised to officially name the upcoming Brown’s Island Dam Walk the “T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge” in honor of the late city planner who championed the project.
All nine council members have signed off on an ordinance to name the bridge for Potterfield, who died this year at age 55. Potterfield, who wrote a book on the Richmond landscape, worked for the city since 1991.

The ordinance the council intends to pass states: “One of the crowning achievements of Mr. Potterfield’s career culminated in the design of a historic dam structure as a bridge for pedestrians and bicycles extending from Brown’s Island to Manchester, connecting the north and south banks of the James River.”

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The ordinance is scheduled to come up for official passage on Oct. 13. The bridge is expected to be finished in about a year.