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Council approves consent agenda, Civilian Review Board appointments and continues multiple ordinances to Oct. 14
Summary
Council approved the consent agenda (including Gateway North special-use permit ordinance 2025-173), confirmed Civilian Review Board appointments and voted to continue several land-use ordinances to an Oct. 14 meeting.
Richmond City Council approved its consent agenda and confirmed several appointments during the meeting, and it voted to continue multiple zoning and tax-related ordinances to the Oct. 14 meeting.
Appointments: Council voted to approve the Civilian Review Board appointment recommendations made at the Sept. 8, 2025 informal meeting. The clerk recorded aye votes from Mister Breton; Miss Gibson; Miss Jones; Miss Trammell; Miss Abu Bakr; Vice President Jordan; and President Newbill; the clerk announced the appointments were approved.
Consent agenda: The council adopted the consent agenda in a roll-call vote. The consent list included a block of ordinances and resolutions; among the items on the consent agenda was ordinance 2025-173, which grants a special-use permit for the Gateway North affordable housing development. Multiple Virginia Union University students addressed the council in support of Gateway North before the consent vote. The clerk recorded the consent-adoption roll call and announced that the listed papers were adopted.
Continued items and amendments: Council approved motions to continue multiple ordinances to the Tuesday, Oct. 14 meeting. Notable continuations recorded during the meeting include: - Ordinances 2025-207 and 2025-208 (items 38 and 39) were continued to Oct. 14 after a roll-call vote in which Mister Breton, Miss Gibson, Miss Jones, Miss Trammell and Miss Abu Bakr were recorded as voting —Aye—; Vice President Jordan and President Newbill were recorded as voting —No—; Miss Robertson recorded a —No—; the clerk stated the motion was approved. - Council approved amendments to continue ordinances 2025-079, 2025-081 and 2025-113 to Oct. 14; motions to amend and continue those ordinances were moved, seconded and approved by roll call.
Minutes and introductions: Council approved minutes from recent budget work sessions and introduced a set of new ordinances (items 4 through 15) for the introduction phase; no separate roll-call votes were recorded for introductions.
Votes recorded in the meeting transcript were announced by the clerk and entered into the official record; where roll-call tallies were explicit, they are described above.
