Richmond Rejects Destruction of Design Review
Richmonders are overwhelmingly rejecting the reckless proposal of the Viramontes Five to dismantle Design Review in Richmond. All comments are copied below. The only dissent came from two developers who favor less community review of projects. Names have been removed...
Eat Smart, Be Smart at Washington School
Just before the Point Richmond Music Festival, there"s something great happening at the Washington Elementary School in Point Richmond! Bring your camera. It"s a beautiful, visually striking mural (36ft x 5ft. Plus a 24ft extension). Come support the school and the...
A Cool Place to Live
I was in Memphis over the weekend, and I came across the article copied below. It caught my attention because there are lessons for Richmond that are apropos to both the recent citywide survey and the General Plan Update. The person quoted in the article, Leland...
Viramontes Five Defies Experts and Votes to Seal Up Rehabilitated City Hall
After a lengthy presentation on the economic and health advantages of operable windows by Gail Brager, a highly regarded professor from U.C. Berkeley with a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, the five-member City Council cabal controlled by Maria Viramontes surprisingly...
City Survey Reports
Click below for: " Overall Results " Geographic Results " Demographic Results " Results Compared to Other Cities
Additional Survey Information
Please replace Figure 6, p.12 and Appendix A of the Report of Results Survey.
All New 2007 Point Richmond Free Summer Music Festival Starts This Friday
The Point Richmond Summer Music Festival kicks off this Friday, June 8 at 5:30 with Suzie Davis at 5:30 to 6:15 and Tapwater from 6:25 to 8:00. Click here for a poster. Point Richmond Music is back for its 6th season of FREE Summer Concerts! See the attached poster...
City Manager’s Weekly Report for the Week Ending June 1st, 2007
Mayor and Councilmembers: This is the weekly report for the week ending June 1st, 2007. 1. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting will be on Tuesday, June 5th. It will begin with a Closed Session at 8:30 AM, to be followed by two Study Sessions regarding the Port...
Richmond Survey Shows Rock Bottom Resident Satisfaction with City Services and Quality of Life
The long-awaited City Survey has been received, and preliminary results have been distributed to council members via email. If I were not working remotely, I could post them on my website for public access, but that will have to wait until Monday. A public...
Council Veers Toward Reckless Spending Policies
I write this lament from Memphis, TN, where I have accompanied my wife to her high school reunion.With "Mayor" Viramontes leading Richmond City Council's powerful new voting block, a 7-2 majority adopted as policy last Tuesday allocation of nearly $4 million for...
Dog Settlement in News Before City Council Notified
Apparently, the Richmond City Council did not approve the settlement after all. No wonder, I couldn't recall it. The matter apparently is in the final throes of settlement by the City's excess coverage insurance carrier. How the press found out before the City Council...
Expensive Dog
The lawsuit involving a dog improperly shot by Richmond Police officers in 2005 was settled for $210,000, according to the West County Times. The article says the City Council "formally agreed last week to pay," but I don"t recall it being on any recent agendas. For...
Chevron Article from East Bay Express
Flare-up Crude Awakening By Matthew Green Published: May 30, 2007 In the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the worst part wasn't the shaking, but the fires that followed. At Chevron's Richmond Refinery some hundred years later, the worst part probably wasn't the fire,...
Silent Film shows City at its Fictional Worst
Silent film shows city at its fictional worst RICHMOND: Berkeley native's work, which features corruption, conspiracy and pollution, will be screened today By John Geluardi CONTRA COSTA TIMES Contra Costa Times Filmmaker Thalia Drori tonight will show her...
Bye-Bye Public Review of Development Projects
The majority of the City Council is moving at flank speed to totally reconstruct the way projects in Richmond are reviewed. Pursuant to action taken on February 20 (City Council Votes to Merge Planning Commission and Design Review Board, February 24, 2007), the Design...
Two of Chronicle’s Eight “Perfect Picnics” For Memorial Day are in Richmond
On May 23, the San Francisco Chronicle featured eight "perfect picnic spots" for the Memorial Day Weekend (see below). Two of the eight are in Richmond. Not bad publicity for the Richmond shoreline. Picnic Spots Alameda/Contra Costa shoreline path Angel Island: Bay...
Richmond Boasts Largest Sea Scout Ship in America – Join Now!
USS Hornet hosts Sea Scouts regatta Contra Costa Times Article Launched:05/24/2007 03:23:05 AM PDT IT'S ONLY APPROPRIATE that the largest ship in the Sea Scouts is present at the largest annual Sea Scout event in the United States. The ship is the S.S. Northland, a...
Long Awaited Chevron Energy & Hydrogen Renewal Project EIR is OUt
Chevron Products Company, which owns and operates the Chevron Refinery located at 841 Chevron Way in Richmond, California, proposes to replace the existing Hydrogen Plant, Power Plant, and Reformer, and install new equipment in order to increase the Refinery"s ability...
Mission Creep at “Temporary” Hall of Justice
Back in late 2006, the City Council was told that the Police Department could move into rented space at the Dicon FiberOptics building for $2.9 million and that the move could start in January and be complete by April of 2007. Now the price has doubled to $6 million,...
City Property Looted, Vandalized and Dumped On
Nurseries' fate in developers' hands (Also see Richmond Community Redevelopment Agency Competes for Title of City's Worst Slumlord, May 18, 2007) By John Geluardi CONTRA COSTA TIMES Contra Costa Times Article Launched:05/23/2007 03:06:37 AM PDT Under management of the...