by admin | Nov 5, 2003 | Uncategorized
At a time when good news is hard to find in Richmond, it is a bit of extraordinary good fortune that Ford Motor Company, in partnership with the National Park Foundation, published a five-page, full color advertisement in the November 10 edition of Time magazine in...
by admin | Nov 2, 2003 | Uncategorized
For only the second time ever, a Richmond City Council meeting will be held in the Richmond Memorial Convention Center Auditorium to accommodate the hundreds of people expected to show up to protest any restrictions on front yard fence heights. The last time the...
by admin | Nov 2, 2003 | Uncategorized
Over a decade ago, the California legislature made it public policy to encourage the creation of smaller second units in existing single family neighborhoods to augment the housing supply. Section 65852.150 of the Government Code states: “The Legislature finds...
by admin | Nov 2, 2003 | Uncategorized
Since accepting transfer of Point Molate from the Navy on September 23, City of Richmond officials have apparently contacted only one suitor ” Chevron Texaco. Anticipating the transfer, the City earlier this year released a Request for Proposals to potential...
by admin | Oct 23, 2003 | Uncategorized
For the last five days, I have been at an ASTM meeting in Tampa, Florida. Always on the lookout for municipal government applications that we could use in Richmond, I came across a story (at the end of this piece) about citizen complaint tracking in the St. Petersburg...
by admin | Oct 16, 2003 | Uncategorized
In July of 2003, I described Richmond”s 2003-2004 budget as a “Hail Mary Budget” (See http://www.tombutt.com/forum/030709.htm). Continuing the football analogy, it appears that there are no open receivers and the game will be lost. The West County...
