Near West End

[I miss RVA]

Something like that would be fantastic there. Let's hope the conceptual use actually translates into a tangible project.

[DowntownCoruscant]

Yeah, many of those businesses on the north side of Broad have their parking lots in Henrico.

I’m in Henrico but am dead serious that I could throw a baseball into the city from my back yard. The houses across the street are split Henrico/Richmond properties. They pay pro rata property tax to both based on where the square footage lies in each.

[Shakman]

So if you threw a baseball through your neighbors window, they would call Richmond 9-1-1 but Henrico Police would show up at your front door?   

 

What's the annexation process between a Virginia county and an independent city?

Edited November 14, 2021 by Shakman

[I miss RVA]

39 minutes ago, Shakman said:

So if you threw a baseball through your neighbors window, they would call Richmond 9-1-1 but Henrico Police would show up at your front door?   

 

What's the annexation process between a Virginia county and an independent city?

There is none. It's not permitted under state law.

In the wake of RIchmond's 1970 annexation of 23 square miles of Chesterfield and the resulting legal battles regarding racial differences in voting strength, the General Assembly imposed an annexation moratorium in 1971 on cities with a population of 125,000 or more. It was amended in 1979 to focus on granting levels of immunity from annexation to counties of specific population sizes.

In 1987, the moratorium was extended to all municipalities statewide, regardless of population sizes (meaning, no more hierarchical levels of immunity for a locality based on population size - rather, it was a blanket moratorium) with extremely limited exceptions for very small towns. The moratorium was extended by the General Assembly in  2016 - and is currently in effect through 2024.

https://www.vaco.org/annexation-moratorium-extended/

https://newsletter.coopercenter.org/sites/newsletter/files/Virginia_News_Letter_2012_Vol._88_No_1.pdf

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/232779004.pdf

Edited November 14, 2021 by I miss RVA

[DowntownCoruscant]

7 hours ago, Shakman said:

So if you threw a baseball through your neighbors window, they would call Richmond 9-1-1 but Henrico Police would show up at your front door?   

Great hypothetical!

We did have a guy miss the stop sign late one night and launch his car up and over the caddy-corner neighbor‘s driveway — all the way into the back yard. (Thankfully the homeowner wasn’t home.)  I think Richmond police showed up for that.  

[I miss RVA]

Carvana is up and running. I didn't realize that our tower here is one of the tallest the company has built - 12 stories tall - same as the one in Atlanta. SWEET!

From Richmond BizSense:

https://richmondbizsense.com/2021/11/17/carvana-rolls-out-car-vending-machine/

[whw53]

Neat project before the Planning Commission tonight - SUP for seven attached homes off Grove across from Mary Munford Elementary. Planning staff recommends approval. Row of units facing grove backed by a row facing the alley. 

https://richmondva.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5360875&GUID=E8D52DCB-32A8-4B18-B65E-34B3034320C2&Options=&Search=

 

 

Edited January 3, 2022 by whw53

[I miss RVA]

4 hours ago, whw53 said:

Neat project before the Planning Commission tonight - SUP for seven attached homes off Grove across from Mary Munford Elementary. Planning staff recommends approval. Row of units facing grove backed by a row facing the alley. 

https://richmondva.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5360875&GUID=E8D52DCB-32A8-4B18-B65E-34B3034320C2&Options=&Search=

 

 

I like this infill project a LOT. There are plenty of places in the Near West End and in the Museum District where something like this could reallllllllly fit to fill out some real holes and add some nice density. I hope we see many more projects such as this in the NWE and in the M-D. 

Edited January 3, 2022 by I miss RVA

[DowntownCoruscant]

My one hesitation here is that the area is well trafficked by kids walking/biking to Mary Mumford. But it doesn’t seem like these plans should disrupt that too much.

[whw53]

Mission Board tract on Hamilton has been sold to Silver Hills Development for its 263, 5 story unit project

https://richmond.com/business/commercial-real-estate-highlights-land-at-monument-avenue-and-hamilton-street-sold-for-5-1/article_a0e1f28f-d25e-5ea6-8bff-31daae9d56e4.html

[whw53]

City Council approved the West Broad rezoning last night to TOD-1. 

 

[I miss RVA]

2 hours ago, whw53 said:

City Council approved the West Broad rezoning last night to TOD-1. 

 

YESSSSSS!!!!

Let the building (and unfortunately, the NIMBYing) begin!!!

As they used to say before the start of every NHL match:  GAME ON!!!!

 

[ancientcarpenter]

3 hours ago, I miss RVA said:

YESSSSSS!!!!

Let the building (and unfortunately, the NIMBYing) begin!!!

As they used to say before the start of every NHL match:  GAME ON!!!!

 

What does this mean for the for NIMBYs trying to stop any broad st high density developments?

[I miss RVA]

1 hour ago, ancientcarpenter said:

What does this mean for the for NIMBYs trying to stop any broad st high density developments?

Yes - you KNOW they will. We ALL know they will.

[Brent114]

That isn’t a politically powerful stretch.  The donor class lives farther east  

The NIMBY cries will go unanswered. 

[I miss RVA]

49 minutes ago, Brent114 said:

That isn’t a politically powerful stretch.  The donor class lives farther east  

The NIMBY cries will go unanswered. 

From your keyboard to God's eyes, my friend!

[rjp212]

On 11/11/2021 at 7:44 PM, rjp212 said:

So this is merely conceptual, but the lot is under contract.  Hopefully something similar comes along. 4400 W Broad St

Looks like we got an update on this project. New project will include a  "pair of apartment buildings totaling 340 units."

https://richmondbizsense.com/2022/03/14/340-apartments-planned-for-former-motleys-site-on-broad-street/

 

[eandslee]

Hmmm...a lot shorter than the conceptual rendering.  That's disappointing.

[DowntownCoruscant]

Four stories is pretty lackluster. Also, it’s ugly. On the plus side, getting a Pulse infill station is becoming more likely.

[I miss RVA]

1 hour ago, eandslee said:

Hmmm...a lot shorter than the conceptual rendering.  That's disappointing.

Refresh my memory: I can't recall what the conceptual rendering for this project looked like. Do we have it anywhere? (I normally save out all the renderings & I don't remember if I grabbed these or not)...

EDIT: NEVER MIND. It was directly above. My bad. 

Edited March 14, 2022 by I miss RVA

[I miss RVA]

Welllllllllllllllllllll... this is NOT good... that wonderful, high-density set of apartment buildings to be built adjacent to Willow Lawn is getting scaled back - part of it is being put on hold while parking for the PULSE station is sorted out - and one of the buildings is being trimmed by 75 units. I skimmed the article - but if I read it correctly, we can thank our friendly, local, pearl-clutching neighborhood NIMBYs and their pushback for scaling back the one building from 7 stories and 330 units to 4 stories and 265 units - stair-stepping up to seven stories toward the back (and away from the street).  Jesus...  I swear, we just can't have nice things in RVA, can we!!

As Scooby would say - "Rut Rohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

https://richmondbizsense.com/2022/04/27/part-of-willow-lawn-apartment-project-shelved-as-county-ponders-pulse-parking/

Edited April 27, 2022 by I miss RVA

[flaneur]

Hopefully they can come up with either some shared solution using other under-used existing parking near Willow Lawn or some kind of public-private joint venture to build a parking deck with housing above it. That land is way too valuable for a surface lot park and ride, and that use seems antithetical to the type of dense, infill that the Pulse will help catalyze. Broad from downtown to Short Pump should be Richmond's version of Wilshire Boulevard in LA. In cities with successful transit, you still usually need to pay at the park and ride lots.

[I miss RVA]

21 minutes ago, flaneur said:

Hopefully they can come up with either some shared solution using other under-used existing parking near Willow Lawn or some kind of public-private joint venture to build a parking deck with housing above it. That land is way too valuable for a surface lot park and ride, and that use seems antithetical to the type of dense, infill that the Pulse will help catalyze. Broad from downtown to Short Pump should be Richmond's version of Wilshire Boulevard in LA. In cities with successful transit, you still usually need to pay at the park and ride lots.

Bruce made a great comment in response to the story in today's RBS. He said:

"Willow Lawn and Short Pump are the two ends of the retail barbell in Henrico County. That’s where the density belongs and will occur. The bar is the Pulse line connecting them."

He's right. The PULSE line needs to be extended all the way to Short Pump - and as you said (and Bruce as well) density belongs along the PULSE corridor.

I hope and pray this gets worked out and the Byrd Avenue group of buildings can get built according to original spec without downsizing. I'm extremely disappointed that the NIMBYs won AGAIN and the developers are scaling back the Willow Lawn Drive buildings.

 

[DowntownCoruscant]

10 hours ago, I miss RVA said:

Welllllllllllllllllllll... this is NOT good... that wonderful, high-density set of apartment buildings to be built adjacent to Willow Lawn is getting scaled back - part of it is being put on hold while parking for the PULSE station is sorted out - and one of the buildings is being trimmed by 75 units. I skimmed the article - but if I read it correctly, we can thank our friendly, local, pearl-clutching neighborhood NIMBYs and their pushback for scaling back the one building from 7 stories and 330 units to 4 stories and 265 units - stair-stepping up to seven stories toward the back (and away from the street).  Jesus...  I swear, we just can't have nice things in RVA, can we!!

As Scooby would say - "Rut Rohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

https://richmondbizsense.com/2022/04/27/part-of-willow-lawn-apartment-project-shelved-as-county-ponders-pulse-parking/

Respectfully disagree. This was very foreseeable. The area where the build is planned is tight, at least on one side. I can’t really blame them here.

Edit: I say this as someone who lives in the Willow Lawn area (albeit it not at that precise location). No one on this board wants to see WL thrive more than me.

Edited April 28, 2022 by DowntownCoruscant

[wrldcoupe4]

A “cynical” view would be that developers play the NIMBY crowd by initially proposing something bigger than they really planned so that it appears as a compromise when the developer lowers their density to accommodate the “concerns of the community.”