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City Council to consider 29th Street Bike-Walk Boulevard, your accumulation of outdoor party couches
09/27/2015 8:31 AM by John M
Four of the 43 items on the agenda for the Monday, September 28, City Council Meeting (PDF) seem to be of local interest:
- ORD 2015-184 – To authorize the Chief Administrative Officer, for and on behalf of the City of Richmond, to execute an Urban Project Construction Agreement between the City of Richmond and the Virginia Department of Transportation to provide funding for the Route 5 (East Main Street) Bridge Replacement over Norfolk Southern Railroad project.
- ORD 2015-204 – To amend and reordain City Code §§ 98-263, concerning the eligibility of residential real property in redevelopment and conservation areas and rehabilitation districts for partial tax exemption, 98-264, concerning the application requirements for such partial tax exemption, and 98-265, concerning the amount of such exemption and the basis for taxes during construction, for the purposes of adjusting applicable threshold requirements to qualify for such exemption, adding maximum rent limits for certain dwelling units, authorizing an additional exemption period for certain structures and requiring that property owners file annual renewal applications with the City Assessor.
- ORD 2015-208 – To amend City Code § 38-152, concerning unlawful accumulation, for the purpose of making it unlawful to permit the accumulation of certain furniture manufactured primarily for indoor use on any property or on any alley, sidewalk, public right-of-way, grass strips, or street abutting such property.
- RES 2015-2055 – To request the Commonwealth Transportation Board to fund the Church Hill / 29th Street Bike-Walk Boulevard project to improve bicycle and pedestrian mobility on 29th Street.
The 29th Street Bike/Walk Boulevard is gonna be awesome! So happy to see this getting funded. Kudos to the East End Connects group and their leadership. Ride on!
As a resident of 29th Street we host tour busses, Segway’s, walkers, cyclists, joggers…you name it, every day. All without incident. I don’t see the need for the city to spend tax payers money for any changes. Plus the addition of 2 circles, one at 29th and Franklin and the other at 29th and Grace not the best solution to speeders. All-way stop signs, enforced is the most cost efficient solution.
So will there be a connector going north at M Street where 29th dead ends at the water tower?
I haven’t been following this proposal. Does anyone know where the specifics of this plan can be reviewed? If this has been publicly shared already, please forgive me.
I think this would be a disgraceful waste of money. 29th is host to bicycles, segways, trolleys, and tour busses now. As a recreational use, it is already well established if we are looking at bicycles as environmentally friendly transportation then this money would be better spent elsewhere!
@David – here’s what was out there back in May, don’t know if any of it has changed: http://chpn.net/news/2015/05/04/proposed-north-29th-bike-walk-street-would-provide-safe-northsouth-corridor_42648/
The two blocks south of Broad may be a host to tour buses, trolleys, segways, etc, but not so much north. And if you don’t regularly ride a bike to the Armstrong bike trails, how do you know this isn’t needed. This is a project that spans the entire neighborhood and the greater good should be considered above only two or so blocks that might be currently okay. Plus the Commonwealth Transportation Board sounds like state money. It could be that they have a pool of money set aside for such projects. Why shouldn’t we get a piece of the pie?
#7 I was in attendance at a CHA meeting when a very confusing presentation was made by the group promoting this idea. Their main focus was to connect to the Capital trail. This idea can not accomplish this. I don’t think a traffic circle to manage traffic will work at Main and Pear ST at the bottom of the now famous cobblestones.
Richmond councilman pushes to ban indoor furniture from porches and yards
http://www.richmond.com/local/city-of-richmond/article_f4877142-95bf-5071-a3d6-d159f5b0f0ba.html