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...

Seacliff Slide Update Saturday January 7, 2023

From City Manager Shasa Curl: Evacuation Orders Fifteen (15) homes within the impacted area have been evacuated and are unoccupied. Per the City’s consultant, Cal Engineering & Geology, Inc. (CE&G), there is currently no need to evacuate additional homes. 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...

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...

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...

Merry Christmas to the Mayor-elect

I wanted to leave a few things as Christmas presents for Mayor-elect Eduardo Martinez. Most are items that were once essential but will no longer be needed by me. Figure 1 – I gift him the official generic Richmond “Office of the Mayor” jacket to keep him warm as he...