Update on Seacliff Slide

City of Richmond Fire and Police were able to reassess homes in the incident area to confirm vacancy. No homes are occupied, and currently there is no need to evacuate additional homes. The Police Department is staffing the roadblocks to prevent anyone from accessing...

Is Terminal One Terminal?

City Attorney Dave Aleshire worked through the holidays from the ski slopes at Mammoth, obsessed with jamming this poorly designed project through a sale to Terminal One Development LLC before the end of 2022. See Terminal One Single-Family Housing Development In...

Seacliff Slide Update

Yesterday, January 3, 2023, at 5:23 PM, I received an email from Tom Leader, a landscape architect and former Richmond Design Review Board member, alerting me to a potential geologic hazard on the slope above the Seacliff development. From the photos, it was clear to...

Happy to Ring Out 2022 – Happy New Year 2023!

Happy to Ring Out 2022 – Happy New Year 2023! Mayor Tom Butt 2022 was my last year (except 10 days in January) of over 27 years on the Richmond City Council, including eight years as mayor. Special thanks to those who supported me politically all those years as well...