The Downtown Plan: One More Hearing

What might be the final hearing before the Planning Commission for Richmond's proposed Downtown Plan is slated to take place during the woefully inconvenient afternoon hours of Monday, May 19. If all goes well, the revised document will get a cheerful stamp of approval from the Planning Commission and head to Richmond's City Council for a more aggressive game of political football.

The draft plan -- created during the latter part of 2007 with a great deal of community involvement -- has been moving through a series of discussions and hearings since it landed on the desks of the appointed members of the city's Planning Commission in January. To its credit, the commission held another series of public discussions on the plan in January and February, which allowed another swath of stakeholders from the community to weigh in on the proposed plan.

A public hearing on the plan will be held in front of the City Planning Commission on Monday, May 19, 2008 at 1:30pm in the conference room on the 5th floor of City Hall. The City Planning Commission will consider adoption of the plan and recommendation for approval to City Council.

The public is encouraged to attend the meeting to share thoughts on the plan with the City Planning Commission.

For more information contact Brooke Hardin City of Richmond at (804) 646-6310 or Brooke.Hardin@RichmondGov.com.

The Planning Commission requested a number of changes to the plan. The changes are available for review by the public in text-only PDF documents with changes highlighted in red.