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...

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,...

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,...

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...

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 February 26, 2021. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021. Closed...

The Hilltop NIMBYs were triumphant last night, with Fairmede-Hilltop Neighborhood Council President Arto Rinteela gloating on Everybody’s Richmond California Facebook page, “Thank you ALL: Its Over: Safe PARK WLL NOT be at the Hilltop Mall area. Civic Center is a...

The one thing everyone agrees on is that they don’t want any homeless people in THEIR neighborhood. The leaders of the Fairmede-Hilltop and Hilltop neighborhood councils have organized a 1,700 signature petition against the proposed safe park at the virtually...

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I had an opportunity today to visit an operating small scale mockup of a plant at the UC Field Station that can transform organic waste into liquid fuels such as syngas, jet fuel and diesel as well as produce hydrogen, all with little or negligible greenhouse gas...

Join me as I present the 2021 State of the City! Tuesday, February 23 │ 6:30 pm Zoom Webinar ID: 993 1220 5643 Zoom Passcode: ccmeeting Online: https://zoom.us/join Call In: +1 669 900 6833 TV: Ch. 28 (Comcast), Ch. 99 (uVerse) Stream: www.youtube.com/c/KCRTTV Mayor's...

Like every neighborhood proximate to a site being considered for a Safe Park to serve RVs occupied by unhoused persons, the Hilltop community is pushing back hard. No one wants a homeless person in their neighborhood, whether in a tent or an RV. How did this happen? I...

I learned a lot about oil spills and cleanups this week. We apparently dodged a bullet on what turned out to be a relatively small spill with no lingering effects, but I learned a lot, and I think others did also. I got my first notice via text message from I believe...

To those who wish to attend the next Richmond Southeast Shoreline Area (RSSA) Community Advisory Group (CAG) Meeting, the Zoom information follows: From: Carolyn Graves <Carolyn.Graves@kp.org> Sent: Saturday, February 6, 2021 2:19 PM To: Tom Butt...

Hon. Mayor and Members of the City Council: This is the report for the weeks ending February 5, 2021. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, February 16th, 2021. Enjoy the next week off! Coronavirus (COVID-19) Updates The following...

This bit of trivia from Wikipedia may or may not be either useful or accurate, but it is interesting. It is not clear who compiled it, but Wikipedia lists a Rayne Van Dunem from Georgia, Lepricavark, KidAd from Novato, and Narky Blert. When I ran across it, I noted...

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 January 29, 2021. Meeting Notes The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021. Closed...

https://richmondstandard.com/richmond/2021/02/01/richmond-san-rafael-bridge-path-sets-100k-mark-for-bicycle-trips/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=local-student-honored-as-a-humanitarian-2-2021 Richmond-San Rafael Bridge path sets 100K mark...

The suspension of street sweeping signs and ticketing is very popular with the Richmond Progressive Alliance crowd, but a post on NextDoor (“I heard that you Annex folks can't be bothered to move your cars for street sweeping, so now your councilmembers want to get...

So much for transparency! The Richmond Southeast Shoreline Community Advisory Committee (RSSA CAG) is coming under increased scrutiny because of its members’ activism in the ongoing Campus Bay controversy. What was intended to be a public interest group representing...

Street sweeping is a best practice under the Clean Water Act for reducing pollutants that otherwise would wash into San Francisco Bay. These pollutants include not only just plain old trash but also much that you can’t even see, including microplastics, copper, zinc,...