City Efficiency
The first step in turning this City around is to give Citizens confidence that their tax dollars are being strategically spent. Then investment will occur. We must first all be working from the same strategic plan. All employees for the city must understand their role and be committed to strategic initiatives while offering efficient means to get there.  Response time  is every thing.
We must further the Richmond Works Initiative, so the average citizen can tract city services, approved budget time tables and even police response time. Government services, budgets and actual delivered services will be transparent and accessible by all. City Budget Spending will be central computer based and monitored by a new city controller accountant.  For more information, visit   www. Richmond Works Web site.



                          
Strategic Project Master Planning Continued into Neighborhoods
To make Richmond the most Livable City in America we must complete the missing pieces to this complex puzzle that is Richmond's future. New areas for new urban affordable housing must be identified. Promoting this city and making it all it can be is important to this candidate and the citizens of Richmond. Certain key and fairly distributed project locations are critical for Richmond's long term livability. And developments for all citizens is necessary.  A continuing of the downtown master plan, with citizen participation in the planning process will be continued and carried into the neighborhoods. 



Three New Middle School Neighborhood Centers
are required with social services included in each complex with after school programs developing the whole family. These centers should help to establish new neighborhoods: An Expanded Martin Luther Middle School, A new Chandler Middle School at Dove Street  and A new Boushall Middle School relocated adjacent to new shopping along an extended Bellemede Road to McGuire VA Medical Center.  

A New Relocated City Jail  should be planned to free the residential neighborhoods and citizens above it for new desirable neighborhoods, family friendly growth and greenway development in a new North Shockoe Bottom Park. 
A new jail should not take land that could become future infill residential or impact culturally existing residential.
Alternative locations include areas near the I-95 Maury Street Exit along East 4th and 5th Streets or the industrial properties northeast and southeast of the intersection of East 4th Street and Gordon Avenue. These locations adjacent to private sector industrial growth and the Healing Place could provide inmate  training. This area is also near the new southside courts. A new jail at this site, hidden with other planned municipal services and intergrated architecturally, similar to the Henrico County government complex could spur more diversified development  adjacent to I-95.


A New Shockoe Valley North  Park (Click Here) acting as a new Eastern Gateway  to Richmond and giving value to adjacent hilltops and respecting the environmental "green way system" must be included in the new neighborhood master plans. 

A new Muti use Athletic facility acting as a new Eastern Gateway  to Richmond shared by all citizens of our region and giving economic growth to a part of the City that needs attention.
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A new Historic Visitors Center at 17th and Broad Streets promoting our diverse history, present culture
and our future potential.

A new Diamond changed to Short Pump Central with pedestrian friendly shopping extending the Boulevard Museum District to  I-95. This area should be included in a neighborhood master plan. Highrise office for fortune 500 corporations have potential growth here with a future highspeed rail metro stop linking it to the region and beyond.

These projects from discussions with Citizens should be GIVEN EQUAL STRATEGIC ATTENTION. 
RICHMOND FAST FORWARD will promote all Citizen based iniatives and will develop
THE PEOPLES MASTER PLAN. 

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