Ah, witness accounts; more reliable than old faithful.

There use to be a RVA movie buff meetup once a month at bow tie. I think the guy who ran it moved away but I’ve been hoping it starts up again/been thinking of starting one again. If people are interested, lmk. I’ll try to track down the guy and see if he still has the list serve.

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The tire hits the first wire and after it hits the second wire it calculates the time it took so it knows the speed

beautiful day for it! just ran an errand with my bike...faster on bike than car and parking it!

How would such a thing detect speed?

> Like most public schools in the US, the wealthiest districts get the best resources and staff.

RPS spends more per student than Henrico 🤷

Here's my issue: People are using additional density as a stand-in for affordable housing and IT'S NOT. You cannot solve the affordable housing issues AT SCALE with infill density. It's too slow a process. And the land is way too expensive where infill density will initially go. If the City REALLY wanted to do something about the affordable housing crisis it would provide incentives - and I don't mean LIHTC - for real estate developers to do projects somewhere where the dirt is cheap enough to do affordable housing.

I know you know what I am talking about. But as an example: When I have clients who have $250,000 to spend and they tell me they want to buy something in the Fan District, it's my job to be realistic with them. I am not a magician. You cannot under any circumstances buy a house in the Fan for $250,0000. That is just the facts. You *might* be able to buy a very small condo. So then I have to figure out what it is they really want - walkability? A yard for their dog? Something on the Pulse or at least near transportation? And then I have to try to find them something that meets their *real* wants and needs that they can actually afford. It wastes my time and theirs if we spin our wheels looking for a unicorn that doesn't exist - a $250,000 house in the Fan.

So if the goal is to build affordable housing - and I think that is one of Richmond's most pressing issues right now, and I also believe affordable housing should include for sale housing, not just apartments - then the land has to be cheap enough to work. That's just basic economics. And I hate to tell people - ADUs are a great concept, but they also will not add sufficient additional housing at scale because you cannot get financing to build them. To add an ADU to your property you will need to pay cash out of pocket to build one, or perhaps borrow against your home with a HELOC. Which has its own issues.

That's my issue. Infill cannot add enough additional housing at scale. So we shouldn't be conflating two different issues - additional density and affordability.

Awesome! Now do Williamsburg between Stone, Gillies and over the train tracks between Fulton Gas Works and the abandoned dilapidated warehouse. They’re doing Main down that way but I don’t think they’re taking a turn onto Williamsburg. I request it through 311 every so often for good measure.

Glad for Goshen and the others getting their deserved and overdue attention all the same :)

Thank you 💜

Ok that’s awesome! Thanks. I don’t know if she’s considered that.

I wish y’all luck!

One other thought I just had is she could contact the Virginia Lawyer Referral Service and talk to a lawyer. It’s $35 for a 30 minute consultation, and might help her figure out how to make it work.

Thanks. We have considered that, but it looks like the tax cost would be the same and we think it will be best to just gift it and pay the taxes but I was hoping someone knew the ins and outs better. It’s hard relearning a whole new state and it’s intricacies.

Gotcha. I’m sorry to hear what she’s going through. I wonder if she could sell it to her partner for an amount he can get together and then basically just return the money in exchange for something else. I have no idea of legality of this but just a thought.

I appreciate you asking!

She’s had a brain injury and will likely not be able to drive again. She’s kept the car for about 4 years hoping that her abilities would change but they’ve gotten worse with time. She’d like to gift it to her partner as cheaply as possible.

Can I ask why she is doing this? If it’s for Medicaid purposes, one car is exempt from the asset limit, and I think there is a 5 year lookback period on transferred assets.

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Don't worry, they'll have it cut open by next week! /s

Thanks! I know gifting is possible but I’m looking for options similar to the spouse exception for long term, but unmarried, partners to avoid the tax.

It looks like that’s not possible. :/

Thanks! I have seen this, I’m just wondering if there are other exceptions for long term, but unmarried, partners in place of the spouse designation for tax purposes.

Will be nice to finally feel comfortable driving down side streets near Cobra to look for parking instead of circling marshall a bunch and praying for a spot

It's not that we are going to become them. It's that that density is really not something to be scared of. People think Manhattan, and that's not what happens with triplexes

I should do a better job of not perpetuating the stereotypes - thank you for pointing that out.

Roanoke has a fantastic network of public courses in great shape. Definitely one of the things I miss, that and Texas tavern.

Vinaterra kicked my ass when I played it, left with no balls after 12 lol. Thanks, I’ll definitely do that