From the FaceBook event page:
Come one come all on Friday October 25th to a Halloween Bike Parade!
Critical Mass/ bike parades are typically on the last Friday of every month.
5pm meet up in Monroe Park near the fountain. The ride will leave at 6pm!
Costumes encouraged as long as they aren’t the racist/sexist variety or other oppressive costumes.Bring music, signs, kids, etc. To celebrate bikes and Halloween!
The ride will be a group ride and we will try to stick together- its no race!
I hope folks had a chance to see Ed’s recent feedback in regard to how events can have a negative effect on his restaurant, Mamma Zu’s, and the neighborhood in general. As I told Ed, I did take pictures of problems during the Folk Festival and shared them with authorities. Still no word back from Venture Richmond…even in response to compromise.
Up on Cary Street, 821 Cafe is rumored to be considering outdoor dining! Stay tuned for news on that.
Mojo’s is bringing back its Trivia Night tonight! From the FaceBook event page:
Trivia is back and it’s on a Wednesday. October 23rd at 8pm. All questions will be Halloween themed. Free to play! Prizes each round! Great food specials too.
Jeff Speck, author of Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America One Step at a Time: on October 24, 7-8:30 p.m. in the VCU Student Commons, Commonwealth Ballroom, Jeff Speck, AICP, CNU-A and LEED-AP, will deliver the inaugural Morton B. Gulak Urban and Regional Planning Lecture. The event is free and open to the public, and a book signing will follow. To entice you to come on Thursday, here’s a link to a recent DC StreetsBlog.org post about Jeff’s message.
On Thursday, October 24, National Food Day will be celebrated at the Byrd House farmlet beginning at 3:30 pm. National Food Day serves to promote safer, healthier diets; support sustainable and organic farms; reduce hunger; reform factory farms to protect the environment and farm animals; support fair working conditions for food and farm workers.
The event will feature games, a Pop-Up photography exhibition, and family-style dinner tables hosted by Slow Food RVA, Tricycle Gardens, Farmers Market @ St. Stephens Church, Renew Richmond, Faces of Hope, Shalom Farms with Greater Richmond Coalition for Healthy Children, Open High School, Sub Rosa Breads and William Byrd Community House.
Each organization will provide the framework for conversation for their table and be responsible for recording the issues, solutions, plans and actions discussed. The insights from all the groups will be compiled, distributed to all attendees and made available to the public. While the event is not open to the public, media is invited to attend and engage in conversations with each of the parties.
For more information about this Food Day event, please contact Ana Edwards, Manager, Byrd House Market, 804/517-4049, byrdhousemarket at gmail.com.
OHNA (Oregon Hill Neighborhood Association) meets tomorrow evening, Oct. 22, at 7 pm at the William Byrd Community House.
Zipline proposal, Election Day, candidates, Venture Richmond theater proposal, parking, wifi, Halloween Parade support, green alley info, Idlewood roundabout proposal, Paint the Town Green day, etc.
It should be a full agenda.
Found on the 100 block of S. Laurel:
Contact me at scottburger at mac.com if it is yours.
The Byrd House Market will be open Tuesday from 3:30 to 7:00 pm. Be sure to stop by the booth for St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church and support the All Saints Theater Company 8th Annual Oregon Hill Halloween Parade.
On the second and fourth Tuesdays, St. Andrew’s has a table selling its preserves (Bread and Butter Pickles, Peach Marmalade, Fig Preserves and Marinara – all with 2/3 to 100% local ingredients from market vendors). Tuesday, October 22 is our last market of the regular season, and on that day will be donating 100% of our market proceeds to support The All Saint’s Theatre Company’s 8th Annual Halloween Parade through Oregon Hill. Come by our table, pick up some of our delicious preserves and support a new neighborhood tradition.
October 16, 2013
The Honorable City Council
City of Richmond
900 E. Broad St., Suite 200
Richmond, VA 23219 USARe: Proposed Ordinance No. 2013-219 – Tax Abatements
Dear Honorable Members of City Council,
The proposed tax abatement ordinance seems unlawful.
The Constitution of Virginia allows a tax abatement when a building has undergone rehabilitation because of age and use. (1)
The ordinance seems to allow a tax abatement for a building in excellent condition.
Shouldn’t a tax abatement be limited to a building needing rehabilitation?
Sincerely yours,
C. Wayne Taylor
Copy:
Jean Capel, City Clerk
Lou Ali, Council Chief of Staff
Better Government Richmond
Press
Oregon Hill was on the Times Dispatch archives website this morning:
http://archives.blogs.timesdispatch.com/2013/10/17/salvation-army-hall-1950/
Any idea where that was?