West One Quiet Zone Debuts Today

The second Railroad Quiet Zone in Richmond, West One Quiet Zone, goes into effect today, July 15, 2006. This is the West Richmond Avenue grade crossing in Point Richmond. Under the Quiet Zone rules, BNSF can no longer sound a horn as a warning before crossing West...

Civic Center Design Process Sparks Controversy

An illustrated version of this is attached as a PDF file. If you would like the historic preservation analysis of the Civic Center, I can email a 2 MB file. A proposal to place a new Hall of Justice (Police building) facing Barrett Avenue in front of the Richmond Art...

Doddering Towards Control Of Invasive Plants

(For an illustrated version, download the attached PDF file) For perhaps the first time ever in Richmond, a plant invasion edged out a home invasion for attention from the local press. The West County Times set off a mad scramble to identify and eradicate local...