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Committee forwards multiple ordinances to council, including affordable housing grants, transit funding and a downtown planning grant
Summary
The committee forwarded a package of ordinances and one resolution to full council with recommendations to approve, covering transit funding, four affordable housing projects or amendments, park improvements, a downtown planning grant and a bond inducement resolution.
The Richmond Finance and Economic Development Standing Committee voted to forward multiple ordinances and a resolution to the full council, recommending approval on items including transit grant agreements, affordable housing performance grants, park improvements, a downtown planning grant and a bond inducement resolution.
Votes at a glance
- Free Rides to Work (Ordinance 20250‑027 and 20250‑028): The committee read two papers authorizing the CAO to accept $37,371,000 from the Virginia Transit Association and to execute a cooperation agreement to fund a "free rides to work" program. Diana Moore Clark, deputy director in the Department of Public Works, said the program had been at capacity and the additional funds represent roughly $100,000 more than last year. The motion to forward was approved (Vice Chair Jones—Aye; Chair Robertson—Aye).
- Affordable housing (Ordinances 20250‑030, 20250‑031, 20250‑042 and 20250‑043): The committee took items 5, 6, 9 and 10 in a block. Staff described…
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