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Council directs staff to add community‑built bus benches to sidewalk policy and set permitting path
Summary
After hearing from local volunteers and transit advocates, Richmond council voted to fold a community‑led bus‑bench permitting program into the city’s sidewalk policy update and asked staff to create a permitting, installation and maintenance pathway.
The Richmond City Council voted on Tuesday to add a community‑led bus‑bench permitting program to the city’s upcoming sidewalk policy so local groups can legally install anchored benches at bus stops.
The council’s action followed a presentation from Carter Lavin of the Transbay Coalition and members of the San Francisco Bay Area Bench Collective about volunteer bench‑building that has already produced more than 80 benches across the East Bay.…
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