The Community-Based Transportation Plan (CBTP) addresses transportation challenges in low-income Communities of Concern (CoC) across areas of Richmond, San Pablo, El Cerrito, and unincorporated Contra Costa County. The CBTP was developed by Contra Costa Transportation...

Today, I received a letter from Angela Felicity Harris, Baroness Harris of Richmond, North Yorkshire, England. She serves as deputy speaker of the House of Lords. Baroness Harris claims that her Richmond is the original Richmond, dating from 1071, established by the...

In late October, signs began appearing at Richmond fire stations warning that the stations were closing on November 1. A letter from the IAFF Local 188 was also being distributed (click here). The activity by Local 188 was in response to an effort by the City to waive...

CITY OF RICHMOND: PLANNING COMMISSION VACANCY Help represent our city's interests! Attend monthly meetings, advise city council on planning and development policies, prepare, maintain, and implement the city's general plan, and make decisions on land use permits,...

From Friends of the Bay Trail in Richmond: Fantastic news! The City of Richmond and East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) have been awarded $2.2 million for building 2.5 miles of Bay Trail along the shoreline from the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Trail to the northern...

My mother, who grew up in eastern Arkansas, had spent the summer of 1941 in Hawaii visiting her aunt and uncle. Her uncle (my great uncle) was Col. (later Brig. General Edgar King) the ranking medical officer at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked in December of...

Update - December 4, 2020 Bay Area Counties Act Now to Implement the State's Stay Home Order Available ICU capacity in Contra Costa down to 20% Due to the unprecedented surge in community spread of COVID-19 and the significant increase in hospitalizations and ICU bed...

View this email in your browser The Flywheel Next Meeting: DECEMBER 4, 2020 VIRTUAL HOLIDAY AUCTION Join us for our first virtual Holiday Auction! This year's auction will include fun activities, games, and events. Join in on the fun, decorate your space on Zoom's...

From BAAQMD: Subject: Launch of AB 617 Community Steering Committee Recruitment Dear Mayor Butt, We are excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for a Community Steering Committee to help reduce exposure to air pollution in the Richmond-North...

Nobody in Richmond elected Norman LaForce. In fact, when he recently ran for the East Bay Regional Parks District Ward 1 director position representing Richmond, he was soundly defeated. Figure 1 - Noman LaForce has his hands in your pockets Unelected as he is,...

Read https://www.sfchronicle.com/culture/article/Toy-Story-at-25-An-oral-history-of-15749644.php to find out how Pixar grew up in Point Richmond. Point Richmond is like Crockett, or Larkspur, or Sunol. One of those lovely little Bay Area locales that is frozen in...

Falling between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Small Business Saturday is essential to the preservation of the neighborhoods that compose the landscape of our local economy and enrich its unique culture. In 2019, 800+ mayors and city officials joined together to...

Hon. Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the report for the week ending November 20th, 2020. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, November 24th, 2020. Closed Session begins at 6:00 P.M., followed by the Regular Meeting of...

Today is Shirley’s and my 49th wedding anniversary! Married in Mur Woods November 26, 1971. For a short video, seehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWgXJMrUgsI

A Point Richmond tradition for decades, the Annual Turkey Shoot has to go virtual this year. It starts at 10:30 AM today and will feature over a dozen people reading the infamous poem plus a new 2020 stanza. You can catch it all on Facebook at the “Point Richmond...

The Court has dismissed with prejudice the lawsuit by SPRAWLDEF, Citizens for Eastshore Parks, Pamela Stello, Tony Sustak, Paul Carmen and James Hanson, claiming the City violated the Brown Act when it settled Point Molate litigation. See the decision here. This...

Tonight, the Richmond Planning Commission will consider the following: PLN20-310: Campus Bay Mixed-Use Project PUBLIC HEARING to consider a recommendation to the City Council on the: Addendum to the Richmond Bay Specific Plan Environmental Impact Report; adopting a...

See here the Washington Post has Tony Thurmond on the short list to be Secretary of Education.

It has been said that Richmond is blessed with lots of vacant land for development opportunities. While that is true, it is also true that many of those opportunity sites are brownfields. A “brownfield” is a property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which...