by admin | Mar 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Contra Costa County Improves to Red Tier in California’s Reopening Plan COVID-19 is spreading slower in Contra Costa than during a post-holiday peak a few weeks ago, allowing some business and community activities to resume in the county for the first time since...
by admin | Mar 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
John Knox was a neighbor, a friend, a bond counsel for the City of Richmond, a talented musician, and father of Alex Knox, my first mayor’s campaign manager, mayor’s staff member and former Mayor’s Office chief of staff. He will be missed on many fronts. The social...
by admin | Mar 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
This message is being sent on behalf of City Manager Laura Snideman Hon. Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the report for the weeks ending March 5, 2021. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 9th, 2021. The Special...
by admin | Mar 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
As the debate over abolishing single family zoning gains traction, I want to explain why it probably is not something Richmond needs to consider. Unlike Berkeley and other Bay Area communities whose general plans leave little room for increasing the housing stock,...
by admin | Mar 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
According to British author and toponymist Barclay Simpson, Richmond is the most common place name in the world. All in all, Simpson, a resident of the original Richmond, in Yorkshire, England, claims there are over 90 places with the name Richmond. All are descended,...
by admin | Feb 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
Because of the confusion about street sweeping as a required regulatory activity, I asked Keith H. Lichten, Chief, Watershed Management Division, SF Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, to explain it. Click here for his response. Lichten writes. “While street...
