Charles, we are NEVER going to be London or Paris. It just ain't happening. Pro-YIMBY people need to stop talking about that. It's foolish.

The biggest issue is affordable housing in a sufficient amount to address the needs NOW. Infill doesn't cut it for that. Too limited, too expensive, and we need affordable housing for sale, not just rent.

And all of the not-for-profits - looking at you BHC - need to STOP trying to be developers. They aren't good at it. Raise money to fund the development and give it to private developers who know what to do and can get it done at scale on a timeline. Yes, you will have to give the Hated Dreaded Developers financial incentives to do projects, so they make money. But everyone needs to get over that objection if they truly want more affordable housing sooner rather than LOTS later.

Gotta add to this as my son is also SPED and we are west end.

I find that because the west side is quote un quote "richer" (just know I hate saying that) they get better funding for schools over this way which means better trained staff, better staff retention and more staff to handle kids.

BUT I must say that I'm not as happy with the school this year. For context, last year, the original SPED teacher taught for a few months before going on maternity leave. Decided not to come back but the sub they had was great and I felt like did a good job. This year, they hired a new SPED teacher who literally only made it like a month total before quitting and the long term replacement sub they got has been dropping the ball. For example, we had an IEP meeting on a Thursday early this January to renew his goals and said she would make the adjustments to it and get it back to me to sign by like Monday or Tuesday of the next week. It wasn't until 2 weeks later she got it back to me. Not to mention, she didn't seem to consult the speech teacher on his speech goals because we get to the meeting and the speech teacher is like, I updated his goals and sent them to you where are they? So that didn't really instill the most confidence in me about this sub.

SPED is hard work and not easy to do. Teachers out here are still underpaid, overworked, and underappreciated for what it takes to teach the kids. So yes, while the west end is better, it still has its problems.

I did it voluntarily for a “presentation” in 4th grade.

but our dense neighborhoods just aren't dense. They are suburban by most cities lights. I like cities, so I want the density to increase. We can increase Richmond's density by 7x before we get to London, which isn't all that dense a city in most neighborhoods.

normally people like me don't have much good to say about Short Pump.

But no one has ever denied that moving to Short Pump for the schools makes sense.

Another vote for western Henrico in this situation

There is ample historical commentary that says it did happen. But because it was written down 42 years later, what we now know as the speech, may not have been the actual speech that he gave.

>Over forty years after Patrick Henry delivered his speech and eighteen years after his death, biographer [William Wirt](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wirt_(Attorney_General)) published a posthumous reconstruction of the speech in his 1817 work Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry.[2] This is the version of the speech as it is widely known today and was reconstructed based on the recollections of elderly witnesses many decades later. A scholarly debate persists among colonial historians as to what extent Wirt or others invented parts of the speech including its famous closing words.

>According to Edmund Randolph, the convention sat in profound silence for several minutes after Henry's speech ended. George Mason, who later drafted the Virginia Declaration of Rights, said that the audience's passions were not their own after Henry had addressed them.[7] [Thomas Marshall](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Marshall_(U.S._politician)) told his son John Marshall, who later became Chief Justice of the United States, that the speech was "one of the boldest, vehement, and animated pieces of eloquence that had ever been delivered."[7][8] Edward Carrington, listening by a window, was so affected by the speech that he requested to be buried there, and in "1810, he got his wish."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_me_liberty,_or_give_me_death!

they paved goshen

Wow. That is very surprising. Thanks for sharing.

allegedly delivered; There is no real proof that this speech ever happened.

So glad they follow the teachings of Jesus by building expensive ornate churches that only a small percentage of people can enter once it’s operational. Why use those resources for helping the homeless or the needy when you can be gaudy and tax exempt.

But I get it it’s very important to brainwash socially sheltered teens to go to colonized countries to force poor people to convert In order to give them access to basic necessities.

Just as Jesus said in the book of Mary 420:69 “he who doesn’t tithe doesn’t deserve the time”

This event is reenacted at St Johns church, where it took place, in Church Hill. In fact there's one today at 7pm (tickets required).

https://historicstjohns.ticketspice.com/2023-reenactment-tickets

It’s not closing vs rebranding …: happens

My son has an IEP here in Chesterfield and it has been fine. There were some missed services during the pandemic and when his school provided speech therapist suddenly retired with no notice, but otherwise we haven't had any issues. He has been progressing very well too.

That said, he seems to get bullied a lot at school and it often gets brushed off when we report it, but I am not sure how much bullying is "normal" and how much is because he is being targeted. The worst of it happened very early in the school year and the school jumped right on it and solved it. Otherwise, it has been on the bus home (he only rides it home). The first time it happened on the bus we had to keep pushing but they eventually resolved it and the second time was yesterday so we will see how that goes. They did brush it off initially, but that was expected.

Road paving has nothing to do with DPU. Unless it's paving restoration as apart of a utility project.

Same... It was around 30 years ago but I still remember it too.

I remember having to memorize part of that speech in elementary school lol

They do not pay well at all. I was….shocked, honestly. I brought about $250 worth of minifigs in there (like 8-10 figs, all $15+ in value) and was offered $30. In store credit. I went to the toy guys and was offered $130 cash or $150 store credit. I know they have franchise fees and an overheard, but for how overpriced their stuff is I was shocked at how low their buying percentage is.

It’s hard to mess up a mimosa

Lol... Read the original post and felt bad for going all digital with my camera for a second.

Short pump area ftw

Fuck that place. Warren Jeffs is a pedo.

Come hang out with us at the Richmond Film Network! It’s a monthly screening of short films at Movieland (next one is mid April) but afterwards there’s a great networking/hangout at a bar afterwards where you can meet some of the filmmakers that made said shorts, or meet plenty of RVA film folks who are there to just talk shop. It started in November and each month it keeps getting bigger and bigger. It’s from the same folks who are involved in the Richmond 48 Hour Film Project, which happens later this Summer.

That's one of the biggest problems I've had w/ roadwork downtown -- multiple routes get closed at the same time, so that it causes backups. Add that to the lanes closed for construction zones, and then Bank Street being closed, it really is miserable driving down there now!

Richmond is terrible, don’t even consider. Chesterfield and Henrico are good in the wealthier suburban parts of those respective counties, if you aren’t in those areas, the schools aren’t great. Focus on western Henrico or the Midlothian area of Chesterfield. Like most public schools in the US, the wealthiest districts get the best resources and staff.

Those hoses are 'pneumatic road tubes' for counting traffic (and lots of other data), to get a sense of how much use a particular roadway gets.

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/pubs/vdstits2007/04.cfm