Richmond Marathon Closings

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From Richmond Police Department announcement:

November 5, 2018

The 2018 Richmond Marathon is just days away! Hundreds of runners will take to city streets on Saturday, Nov. 10. There will be numerous “No Parking” zones and street closures will be in effect as a result.

The Richmond Police Department is asking motorists to be patient and on the lookout for runners along the routes. Maps of the course are attached.

Please be aware of signs restricting parking and detours throughout the city starting at 10 am. Friday Nov. 9 and continuing through 7 p.m. Saturday Nov. 10.

The follow streets will be closed or modified during the designated times:

· Tredegar Street between S. 7th Street and Brown’s Island/2nd Street Connector will be closed from 10 a.m. Friday until 7 p.m. Saturday
· South 5th Street between Bragg and Tredegar Streets will be closed from 10 a.m. Friday until 7 p.m. Saturday
· Broad Street between Boulevard and N. 12th Street from 4 a.m. Saturday until 10 a.m.
· Hermitage Road (Northbound) between N. Laburnum and Pope Avenue from 4 a.m. Saturday until 3 p.m.
· North Mulberry Street between W. Broad and W. Grace Streets from 4 a.m. Saturday until 10 a.m.
· North 3rd Street between E. Broad and Main Streets from 4 a.m. Saturday until 3 p.m.
· Broad Street between N. 4th Street and Boulevard from 4 a.m. Saturday until 10 a.m.
· Cowardin Avenue (One/Southbound Lane) between Semmes Avenue and Lee Bridge from 4 a.m. Saturday until 1 p.m.
· Tredegar Street between Dominion Resources and Brown’s Island Way/2nd Street Connector from 3 a.m. Saturday until 5 p.m.
· Longview Drive between Scottview Dr. and Wallow Road from 4 a.m. Saturday until noon
· Huguenot Road between Huguenot Bridge and Cherokee Road from 4 a.m. Saturday until 11 a.m.
· Windsorview Drive between Wallowa Road and Forest Hill Avenue from 4 a.m. Saturday until noon
· Riverside Drive between Huguenot Bridge and Scottview Drive from 4 a.m. Saturday until noon
· River Road/Cary Street Road between Maple/Libbie Avenue and Three Chopt Road from 4 a.m. Saturday until 10 a.m.
· Lee Bridge (2/Southbound Lanes) between Belvidere and Cowardin Avenue from 4 a.m. Saturday until 1 p.m.
· Brook Road (southbound) between Fauquier Avenue and North Lombardy Street from 4 a.m. Saturday until 3 p.m.
· Fauquier Avenue (North and Southbound sides) between Crestwood and Brook Roads from 4 a.m. Saturday until 11 a.m.
· Westmoreland Street between Monument and Grove Avenue from 4 a.m. Saturday until 10 a.m.
· Forest Hill Avenue (westbound) between Windsorview Drive and Semmes Avenue from 4 a.m. Saturday until 1 p.m.
· Pope Avenue between Hermitage and Crestwood Roads from 4 a.m. Saturday until 1 p.m.
· Scottview Drive between Riverside Drive and Longview Drive from 4 a.m. Saturday until noon
· Belvidere (1/Southbound Lane) between Lee Bride and East Main Street from 4 a.m. Saturday until 1 p.m.
· Grove Avenue (westbound) between Westmoreland Avenue and Maple Street from 4 a.m. Saturday until 10 a.m.
· Monument Avenue (westbound) between Cowardin Avenue and Forest Hill Avenue/Roanoke Avenue from 4 a.m. Saturday until 1 p.m.
· Bellevue Avenue between Hermitage Road and Bryan Park from 4 a.m. Saturday until 11 a.m.
· Brookland Parkway between Hermitage Road and Loxley Road from 4 a.m. Saturday until 11 a.m.
· East Franklin Street between North 2nd and North 6th Streets from 4 a.m. Saturday until 3 p.m.
· West Grace Street between Boulevard and North Allen Avenue from 4 a.m. Saturday until 9 a.m.
· West Main Street between Belvidere and the Boulevard from 4 a.m. Saturday until 2 p.m.
· 5th Street between East Grace and Tredegar Streets from 4 a.m. Saturday until 5 p.m.
· Boulevard (northbound) between West Cary Street and Hermitage Road from 4 a.m. Saturday until 3 p.m.
· Boulevard (southbound) between West Broad Street and Monument Avenue from 4 a.m. Saturday until 9 a.m.
· Crestwood Road between Pope Avenue and Fauquier Avenue from 4 a.m. Saturday until 11 a.m.
· Maple Avenue between Grove Avenue and River/Cary Street Road from 4 a.m. Saturday until 10 a.m.
· Wallowa Road between Longview and Windsorview Drive from 4 a.m. Saturday until noon
· Semmes Avenue (westbound) between Cowardin Avenue and Forest Hill/Roanoke Avenue from 4 a.m. until 1 p.m.
· North Lombardy Street between Brook Road and West Grace Street from 4 a.m. until 3 p.m.
· Grace Street between North Allen Avenue and North 9th Street from 4 a.m. until 3 p.m.

Trash/Recycling Pickup Tomorrow

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This Wednesday is a “Red Wednesday”, which means trash and recycling pickup. Ideally, rolling recycling containers are stored and deployed in the back alleys along with trash cans. Please make sure you pick up containers after pickup tomorrow night.

If you have not done so already, don’t forget to sign up for your Recycling Perks.
In order to take your recycling to the next level, read this: 10 ways to improve your recycling.

In recycling news, after initially declining to renew its contract with Hampton, TFC Recycling has continued taking the city’s material and working through negotiations. The Daily Press reports that the Hampton City Council recently approved using $600,000 from an enterprise fund to cover higher costs through FY19.

Meanwhile, in international news…Scotland has recently adopted a new recycling measurement system based on ‘Carbon Metrics’. This may prove influential as weight-based goals lose favor in the U.S., and the urgency for climate action increases.

Planning Commission Presentation

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Laurel Street neighbor, Charles Pool, on behalf of the Oregon Hill Home Improvement Council, made a presentation to the City of Richmond Planning Commission at their meeting this afternoon. Above are slides from his presentation. They support and reiterate previous statements from Oregon Hill Home Improvement Council and the Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association.

The Commission was considering both VCU’s master plan and an important ordinance, #2018-276, from Councilperson Agelasto that would require better public notification of rulings by the Zoning Administrator.

Foundry Market At Tredegar On Sunday

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From FaceBook Event page:

We’re excited for the return of Foundry Market, our celebration of Virginia makers and doers, in conjunction with the completion of outdoor construction on our brand-new museum building.

We’re also thrilled to be joined by Triple Crossing Beer for another one of their Triple Crossing at Tredegar pop-up beer gardens. So make plans to come shop, drink, and enjoy the beautiful riverwalk.

Vendors include:
Ruby Belle Adornments
South Claw Woodworking (Instagram: @south_claw_woodworking)
ScatteredBrains
Lucky Signs (Instagram: @lucky_signs)
Flannel Cakes Fiber
Square Of The Bone – Handmade Jewelry by Icka Cantilo
BRK RVA
The Timbered Wolf
Rabbit & Wren
Tasha McKelvey – Handmade Clay Goodness
Naturally Devine Wellness
Crewel and Unusual (Instagram: crewelandunusual)
Flourish Creative
Petite Shards Productions
ZouZous Basement
Robin’s Egg Jewelry
and more!

Winning Jack O’ Lantern

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Congratulations to Pine Street neighbor Alex Grace for her winning entry!

She wins a $50 L’Opossum restaurant gift card and $20 from yours truly.

Runner up is Pine Street neighbor Stephenie Harrington. She wins an Oregon Hill Terribles patch, made by The Wild Wander Company, kindly donated by Spring Street neighbor Jennifer Hancock.

Happy Halloween! Hope for more competition and prizes next year…

Coliseum Vs. Schools: Time For A New Referendum

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Well, this one has been bubbling for a while…but the Coliseum vs. Schools debate is about to rise to a new level. What? You say you don’t know what I am writing about? Click here for a quick refresher course.

Yesterday’s headlines made it pretty clear that Tom Farrell and VCU are going to play hard ball to make sure that their coliseum scheme comes first-

VCU Cancels University-wide Spring Commencement Ceremony

I was going to write a whole bit explaining this, but let’s allow Paul Goldman to do it:

Earth to RVA citizens: Why do think VCU is being denied use of the current Coliseum in May/2019 despite having used it for commencements since 1970’s? HINT: The Stoney/Farrell plan to use $500 million in PUBLIC RVA CITY money to build and finance a new Coliseum that will NOT be to owned by the city calls for demolishing the current Coliseum in March/2019! FACT: Farrell’s team is going around Richmond promising no-bid contracts to politically connected individuals if they will lobby the Council to ram thru this fiscally irresponsible Coliseum without giving RVA taxpayers a fair chance to weigh in. That’s why my citizen group is circulating the “Choose Children over Costly Coliseum” petition so you can sign it and put to Special Election vote as called for in the City Charter. Sign the petition! It’s your only way to truly be heard.

In other words, this is the ol’ fait accompli thing -“citizens can’t stop this new plan, it’s already been decided and in the works“…………. WRONG!

We can still make sure that the City of Richmond PUTS SCHOOLS FIRST! Before the coliseum. Before any other giant corporate welfare project.

What Goldman is referring to is his new City referendum effort to establish by law that the City has to put money from certain types of financing towards SCHOOLS FIRST. It will not be on the ballot this Election Day, but referendum supporters will be collecting signatures for a petition to get the new referendum on the ballot in 2019. It’s going to be interesting to see if a good coalition of grassroots can come together like the last time. Goldman is looking for more poll volunteers and donations for this new campaign.

And by the way, speaking of last time, that original PUT SCHOOLS FIRST referendum became law this year. Tick tock, Mayor Stoney, City Council, School Board. Citizens want to see a real school modernization plan come together before the end of the year- if the Education Compact can’t do it, then figure it on your own. Relying on increasing state funding only goes so far, when there is plenty of corporate welfare that should be cut anyway. Don’t be scared this Halloween, it’s time to lead and PUT SCHOOLS FIRST.