Government

The county has extended the expiration date of the Route 1 Revitalization Incentive Program for projects along the corridor between the city limit and Old Bermuda Hundred Road.

The 150-page document in the works since 2020 aims to balance development and preservation interests as a supplement to the citywide Richmond 300 plan.

According to the city, the signs couldn’t be turned on even if underway repair work was finished, due to a lingering permitting issue that remains unresolved.

The approvals are first steps in what councilmembers have described as a larger, long-term plan to increase capacity across the city with potentially a shelter in each of its nine magisterial districts.

The sentence for Shaun Lindsey, a former senior administrative technician with the department, is roughly half what her ex-boss received last week for his role in the three-year scheme that defrauded the city of over $600,000 in contracts.

The state-led study into the health system’s governance structure comes as a request to examine its $73 million project exit payment has been forwarded to the U.S. Department of Justice.

A neighborhood association told a city committee it would take legal action if council approves the proposal this Monday.

The former senior manager pled guilty in July to defrauding the city of over $600,000 in contracts. His wife also was sentenced Tuesday, while a second co-conspirator is to be sentenced next week.

The expansion created eight travel lanes along Route 10 between Bermuda Triangle Road and Rivers Bend Boulevard and six lanes on a stretch of Meadowville Road.

The funding from Local Initiatives Support Corp. would be used to establish a new small building loan program and a developer training program that the nonprofit has introduced in other cities.