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Council approves $564,131 to map city signs and poles, resumes street‑sweeping enforcement and asks staff to study text alerts
Summary
After installing 1,300 new street‑sweeping signs in previously unsigned neighborhoods, Richmond Council authorized funds to map all roadway signs, streetlights and signal poles and approved resuming enforcement; council also asked staff to study a resident text‑alert system.
Richmond City Council approved funding to collect a comprehensive, geocoded inventory of roadway signs, streetlights and traffic signal poles and authorized resumption of street‑sweeping enforcement after staff installed more than 1,300 new street‑sweeping signs in neighborhoods that previously lacked posted rules.
Staff said the initial phase — installing signs in roughly 85 sidewalk miles that had no posted street‑sweeping signage — is substantially complete. Deputy Public Works Director Tofiq Halaby told council a contractor surveyed the unsigned areas, recommended sign placements, fabricated poles and signs and installed about 1,300 new signs. The police parking enforcement unit has distributed courtesy…
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