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The portal is the latest in an ongoing effort to move certain city services online. The typical March 1 deadline for renewing licenses and paying BPOL taxes has been extended to March 31.

“If the water crisis showed us anything, it’s that we need to increase our water resiliency in the east. That’s what this money is doing,” County Manager John Vithoulkas said of the plan, which includes a 6% raise for all Henrico employees.

A similar extension and renovation plan is in the works for Richmond Jet Center competitor Million Air, which also operates on the grounds of Richmond International Airport.

Council also deferred until April a vote on the proposed redeveloped of the Westhampton Pastry Shop building at Libbie and Patterson.

State law requires that the licensees have at least 45% of their gross receipts per year come from food sales, which some argue is too difficult to comply with.

There appears to be progress in clearing up at least some of the turbulence between Richmond International Airport and its two fixed-base operators.

A General Assembly committee last month got a glimpse of the 316,000-square-foot office tower that is proposed as a replacement to the James Monroe Building.

The initial findings from consultant HNTB Corp. follows similar reports released earlier this week by Henrico and Hanover counties, which are partly served by the plant and also experienced service disruptions.

With the team fully assembled, the hope is to open the $11 million center inside Main Street Station’s Train Shed either by the end of 2025 or within the first quarter of 2026. 

“You come from a position of strength as the largest customer of the City of Richmond who also, by the way, has capacity to do more with water,” Henrico Manager John Vithoulkas told the Board of Supervisors during Tuesday’s meeting.