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River City Saunter looks at Broad Street corridor
The Partnership for Smarter Growth’s 3rd Annual River City Saunter will roll on Sunday, October 24, from 2-6PM:
This annual educational event will feature a bus tour along Richmond’s Broad Street Corridor, illustrating growth patterns and pointing out opportunities and obstacles to better land use and transportation planning and the revitalization of our city.
The River City Saunter will feature:
* Revitalization & Bus Rapid Transit Tour
* Release of Smart Growth is Smart Economics Publication
* Overview of Walk & Talk Series
* Roundtable Featuring Developers & Experts on Land Use, Transportation, & the Economy
* Local Business and Non-Profit Exhibitors
* Plein Air Art Auction
* Local Food & Cash Bar
Speakers and tour guides include:
* Trip Pollard, Southern Environmental Law Center
* Stewart Schwartz, Executive Director, Coalition for Smarter Growth
* Rachel Flynn, Director of Planning and Development Review
* Bill Pantele, Attorney
* John Lewis, CEO, Greater Richmond Transit Company
* Scott Garnett, One South Realty Developer
* John Crump, New Kent Courthouse Village Developer
We will get out of the bus and “saunter” around and inside the following exclusive locations:
1840 West Broad Street: Early 20th-century automobile dealership in the City of Richmond rehabilitated and reused as an office building. Host: BCWH Architects.
408 North 3rd Street: This 18,000 square foot, 15 unit apartment be the first multi-family LEED (homes program) project in Richmond and the first in the state to combine this distinction with NPS Historic Preservation certification. It utilizes photo voltaic systems to provide electrical services and solar thermal panels to provide hot water. Host: City & Guilds.
219 East Broad Street: Richmond’s tallest building from 1930-1971, when it was surpassed by the Richmond City Hall, the Central National Bank Building remains Richmond’s tallest art deco styled building at 22 floors. Vacant for ten years, this National Landmark was designed by John Eberson. Host: Douglas Development Corporation.
21st and Main: This three story firehouse constructed in 1899 has been given new life as a mixed-use corner building home to a 2,931 square foot restaurant and three three-bedroom loft apartments with walk-out terraces. The second building, Engine Company Lofts, will feature a first floor with 2,007 square-foot commercial space and twenty five apartments on the second through fifth floors. Host: Sensei Development and Monument Construction.
Hope Church Hill folks will come Saunter with us!
U N Sustainable Developement Agenda 21 look this up. Look up Global Trends 2025, 2020, 2015, 2010 and 2005. This is what our Government has planned for us. Human Settlements, Wildlands Projects, Population Control, Water Control, CONTROL..Come on folks don’t you feel that something is amiss, but you just can’t put your finger on it. Well this is it and we MUST FIGHT BACK. VOTE for HONOR and RESTORATION NOT COMMUNISM.
Carolyn:
Be afraid! Be very afraid!
Hey Tinsel,
Did you look it up?? Or are YOU afraid???
In 1992, Agenda 21 began to change our lives. In that same year, Al Gore wrote his book, Earth in the Balance. To advance his cause, he has now written another piece of fiction entitled, An Inconvenient Truth about global warming…..he even starred in the movie. He also thinks he invented the internet.
Although groundwork had been laid, it took a Bill Clinton to actually introduce something so invasive to our nation and get by with it without the public becoming aware. President Clinton appointed his “President’s Council on Sustainable Development” and he literally gave away the rights and freedoms the framers of the Constitution had provided.
The United Nations Agenda 21 was signed by the United States in 1992 and 14 years later, people are still in the dark. If you were to ask at random the question, “Have you heard of Agenda 21?” the answer would be an over-whelming “No,” although it is being implemented in every local community.
Agenda 21 is a 40 chapter document listing goals to be achieved globally. It is the global plan to change the way we “live, eat, learn and communicate” because we must “save the earth.”
“Its regulation would severely limit water, electricity, and transportation – even deny human access to our most treasured wilderness areas, it would monitor all lands and people. No one would be free from the watchful eye of the new global tracking and information system,” according to Berit Kjos, author of Brave New Schools.
Maurice Strong, Secretary-general of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro said, “…[C]urrent lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat consumption and large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and workplace air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable. A shift is necessary which will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations.
In other words, the Global plan is for us to live on the level of third world nations. That means no box mixes or microwave meals, limited use of fuel of any kind, no air-conditioning and very little meat. When the cost of freon skyrocketed, when mad cow disease hit, the National Animal Identification System introduced, the price of fuel soared, it has become apparent that given time, these sustainable controls will be put into place – one way or another – and the Global Governance is powerful.
hey folks,
I went on the first part of the River City Saunter today. The part that I saw was about the repurposing of vacant buildings into like offices and shit. GOD DANM THAT BILL CLINTON!
We toured the offices of an architectural firm at Meadow and Broad. The building was an auto-dealership back in the 20s or whenever, sat vacant for some time, and then was beautifully fixed up into office space. (NO THANKS TO ALL GORE AND HIS “INTERNET”)
We got a new speaker on our bus after that. He talked about how GRTC is working to implement Bus Rapid Transit to make public transportation more efficient and more attractive to more people along the Broad Street corridor. Right now taking the bus takes 3 or 5 times longer than driving your car the same distance. BRT will minimize that. AND THE FOUNDING FATHER WEEP IN THEIR GRAVES
I left the tour at that point, I’ve got a bit of a cold. The busses were going to visit the new construction and Firehouse renovation at 21st and Main. I ‘spect that they were going to talk about how it will be good for our urban environment to have increased density, maybe about the process of turning empty lots and vacant buildings into usable space. More people bring more services and all that. ****TOO BAD THEY’LL ALL BE SLAVES TO THE COMMUNIST ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT******
That made my night.
Urban-revitalization tour explores Broad Street corridor (RTD 10/25/2010)
Fantastic event and well-attended too.
Thanks for the info and laugh, John 🙂
Carolyn,
Help my memory. Who was president in 1992?
David (#12),
Picky, picky, picky.
Parts of it were good and parts of it were bad. I am generally very supportive of PSG and its mission. But I do have some criticisms…
The BRT part and tour was interesting. I wish there had been more focus on the opportunities created by new pedestrian/bicycle trails and how they might encourage their own smart development and work with BRT.
The last portion of the day with the panel was pretty bad simply because it did not offer much new information and just repeated a lot of stuff we had already heard from speakers on bus tour. The audience was literally talked down to from a stage with developers and politicians.
There needs to be more scrutiny of a lot of these projects. Yes, its great to see urban revitalization, but there needs to more accounting of public investment and what is really ‘smart growth’. With the economic downturn, a lot of developers are demanding more public investment at a time when there are other needs and priorities.
Frankly, I know these developers and their projects. Some of them are better than others. I would have preferred to hear from more critical sources than just the developers themselves.
And while the politicians talk a great game, some of them are highly questionable. Yeah, Graziano makes a bid deal about the James River Park easement, but she has also turned up her nose when citizens have suggested more green building be incorporated into city projects. Council members have routinely turned their backs on what some urban neighborhoods want and given more weight to developers. It’s not ‘smart growth’ to ignore what urban residents say.
Notwithstanding conspiracy theories, Partnership for Smarter has deomonstrated an anti-development perspective. It’s either trying to disguise its past anti-development agenda, or reform its anti-development agenda. Here’s hoping its the latter.
John, thanks so much for the review and comments in #7, it just made my day! Sorry you have a cold but your sense of humor is spot on!
Agreed with Jim in #13, who cares if it was Geo. H. W. Bush!? Why be picky!
pennsylvaniacrier.com/filem […] Mandkind.pdf
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/6485
The New World devised by Maurice Strong and George Soros.
George Herbert Walker Bush President who signed the Treaty
William Jefferson Clinton President Elect.
http://www.iclei.org
local governments for sustainability: Global Members: USA…Richmond, Virginia.They have scrubbed their site so you cannot look at the list where it showed Richamond has been a member since November 2009 and used taxpayers money to pay for the membership which is sometimes as high as $900,000.
Please read this information. I know many of you think this is nonsense but it is not. It is real and your freedom and liberty is at stake here.
The Agenda 21 Rio Summitt is available for purchase if you want to buy it and read about what I am telling you. Also look up Global Trends 2025. It was written by the National Intelligence Council a US Intellegence Council. Their is also a Global Trends 2020, 2015, 2010, and 2005 just type in http://www.globaltrends.com
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Can you please just ban Carolyn. Her conspiratorial nonsense is really annoying.
Here’s a new opinion piece that strongly supports PSG mission:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1011.doherty-leinberger.html
#22, but she is providing entertainment and lots of laughs here!
BTW am I the only one who sees an irony in that the far-right teabaggers want to do away with the Dept. of Education?!
Celeste, did you happen to look around and determine that the Department of Education was not around when you got your education. We existed 200 years without a Federal Department of Education. The responsiblity of education was at the State level. The Department of Education was established by President Carter in 1979 because they said there were too many high school drop outs. Well, guess what? The high school drop out rate has not changed.
The Department of Education and Welfare has been around since 1953 –
Where do you get such facts, JM? Hopefully not from a primary source document or a book written by an actual historian! Don’t you know we learn our histories from talking heads now?