Renegade Market Invites You (Tuesday)

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From email announcement:

Great food!
Come on out from 3 – 5:30 pm (ed. note: Tuesday). Faith Farm and Mugsy’s Dogtown Lounge will be in the Gym, our other friends will be on the grassy market grounds along Linden Street.

Taking Applications Starting Feb. 7
We’re looking forward to a great 2014 market season. Vendors, plan to start applying to Byrd House Market on Friday, February 7th at byrdhousemarket.blogspot.com. Look for the tab “For Vendors” and click to find the regulations and application

Environmental Film Festival
Slow Food RVA was a partner in the National Food Day Dinner, held on October 24, 2013 at WBCH. They will be at the Environmental Film Festival which opens this Friday at 7pm at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond with the screening of In Organic We Trust. “Join us this Friday, February 7 at 7 pm at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. We will be screening In Organic We Trust. For more information about the festival, visit http://rvaenvironmentalfilmfestival.com/ which runs from Feb. 5 – 9, FREE to the public. For more information on the film, visit http://www.inorganicwetrust.org/”
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Ana Edwards, Development Assistant
Manager, Byrd House Market & Library Programs
Grace Arents Library & Education Center
William Byrd Community House
www.wbch.org / 804.643.2717 ext.306

Holmberg on Michael Fleming Folland

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Excerpt from Holmberg piece on WTVR, Channel 6:

We reached on Facebook and found his Richmond nephew – and some of the story behind the gravestone. As it turns out, Folland has several living relatives – but no descendants.
And, as it turns out, our hero was a tough guy from an Oregon Hill, a historically white, blue-collar neighborhood known for Irish immigrants, firefighters, cops, street fighters and virtually no homicides despite its rough-and-tumble reputation.
Folland came from a family largely made up of steelworkers.
“He was a little hard-headed, troublemaking,” recalled his nephew, Lloyd “Chip” Folland of Chesterfield. “Spent some time in a juvenile detention center up in Northern Virginia. They actually have a plaque in the cafeteria with his face on it, saying you CAN become something.”

Medal of Honor winner

Company D, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 199th Infantry Brigade. During a firefight on that day, in Long Khanh Province, Republic of Vietnam, Folland smothered the blast of an enemy-thrown hand grenade with his body, sacrificing his life to protect those around him.

“City Council may rule on fate of park foliage”

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On March 8, 1991, an article appeared in the Times-Dispatch.

VCU plan to remove 37 trees from Monroe Park 3-8-91

The article was about how VCU was trying to get control of the maintenance of Monroe Park and had a plan to cut down 37 of the mature trees. VCU said that the trees were “improperly placed, damaged, dangerous and add nothing to the function or aesthetics of the park,” and stated that removal of the trees would, “make the park safer.”

Fortunately this maintenance agreement was not approved in 1991 because of neighborhood objections, but if the newly proposed lease is approved, VCU would be in charge of the maintenance of the trees and would be given carte blanche to remove as many trees as it wanted without any recourse. Most of the trees that were slated to be removed in 1991 are still in the park, and there is no reason to think that VCU would not again want them removed, “to make the park safer.”

As a result of VCU’s attempt to remove 20% of the mature trees in Monroe Park in 1991, the Monroe Park Advisory Council was established with neighborhood representation from Oregon Hill, the Fan, and Carver. The proposed Monroe Park Conservancy has NO neighborhood representation, but includes four VCU administrators, and four city administrators.

Chesapeake Film At Main Library Tonight

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I mentioned the Vicarious Travelers series earlier this week, but there is another event at the Main Library this evening-

Jan. 31 at 6 PM, director Dave Miller will present his documentary Breathing Life Into The Chesapeake at Richmond Public Library’s Main branch. Although not officially part of the RVA Environmental Film Fest, it is a free screening. Breathing Life into the Chesapeake was a Runner Up finalist in the first annual RVA EFF Local Documentary Contest.

Event Link: http://www.richmondpubliclibrary.org/eventListDay.asp?date=1%2F31%2F2014

Tax Exempt Status For Venture Richmond?

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Former neighbor and citizen activist Silver Persinger documented a very interesting part of a recent informal City Council meeting. Click here for the video.

From Docket Review portion of the meeting. Discussion of Ordinances 2014-2, 2014-3, and 2014-4.
Comments from City Assessor James Hester on Tax Exemptions [4:45].
Parker Agelasto asked if the administration had contemplated having Venture Richmond donate the land to the city to achieve the same result of exempting the land from property taxes. Jeannie Welliver from the City’s Department of Economic and Community Development seemed to be on the verge of melting down and looked physically ill [11:25]. Jack Berry then argued why Venture Richmond should be granted the exemption and was adamant that Venture Richmond was not interested in donating the land to the City [13:44].

The Possibility Of Parking Permits

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Special thanks to Mr. Bergin for answering questions about parking decal regulations at last night’s Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association meeting.

He sent this message this morning:

Hello all,

Attached as a PDF is the city code, Criteria for establishment of a
residential restricted parking district. I want to make a few points on
what we discussed:

1. You should have a minimum of 10 contiguous block faces, and as I
stated legal explained to me that if not contiguous, the separation of
blocks should be reasonable. Also, remember it is not blocks but block
faces.
2. Fewer than 60% of the properties within the proposed district are
owner-occupied. The calculation is based on the proposed district, not
an individual block face, and it is the property not the number of
households at a property.
3. There is nothing to prevent you from having different hourly and
time-restricted regulations in your district.

Please read section 102-301 which thoroughly discusses the process of
establishing the district.

Let me know when or if I can be of assistance.

Good luck and thanks,

Steven D. Bergin
Department of Public Works
Parking Division

Residentail Restricted Parking District