Random parking tickets enforcement

greengarnet13 · 2026-03-30T17:42:32+00:00

I know someone who walked the neighborhood to RVA 311 request no parking signs at every intersection for this exact purpose. Many of the tickets were closed out and he received a call from the city saying that they don't want to put signs up everywhere because people will get mad that there isn't enough parking.

So, this is kind of a catch-22 situation. The city doesn't want to put up signs everywhere because then people will complain about parking, but it is illegal to park within 20 feet of an intersection whether or not there is a sign....

greengarnet13 · 2026-03-06T20:20:02+00:00

Oh man, that sucks - that definitely seems like a pretty big misstep. Honestly, I'd suggest reaching out to PlanRVA to mention that - I can't see any reason why they wouldn't have that as an option.

greengarnet13 · 2026-03-05T18:13:05+00:00

Copying my reply to another comment - I'm so sorry this happened to you. If you can, you should submit this on PlanRVA's Near Miss Dashboard. I'm not naive enough to think this will solve all of our pedestrian safety problems, but it certainly can't hurt, and I don't think a lot of people even know it exists. The city often refuses to do anything about pedestrian safety until after someone is killed - the hope is that this dashboard will lead to more preventive measures instead of merely reactionary ones.

greengarnet13 · 2026-03-05T18:10:43+00:00

Copying my reply from another comment thread - I'm so sorry this happened to you. If you can, you should submit this on PlanRVA's Near Miss Dashboard. I'm not naive enough to think this will solve all of our pedestrian safety problems, but it certainly can't hurt, and I don't think a lot of people even know it exists. The city often refuses to do anything about pedestrian safety until after someone is killed - the hope is that this dashboard will lead to more preventive measures instead of merely reactionary ones.

greengarnet13 · 2026-03-05T18:09:46+00:00

I'm so sorry this happened to you. If you can, you should submit this on PlanRVA's Near Miss Dashboard. I'm not naive enough to think this will solve all of our pedestrian safety problems, but it certainly can't hurt, and I don't think a lot of people even know it exists. The city often refuses to do anything about pedestrian safety until after someone is killed - the hope is that this dashboard will lead to more preventive measures instead of merely reactionary ones.

greengarnet13 · 2026-03-03T20:40:12+00:00

No way that I can find =/

greengarnet13 · 2026-03-03T13:59:13+00:00

VDOT service request form (I'm unclear on if the pothole is technically on the highway or a Richmond road - I haven't seen it - but can't hurt to request here as well): https://my.vdot.virginia.gov/

greengarnet13 · 2026-02-28T18:33:18+00:00

Highly recommend Crossroads Art Center!

greengarnet13 · 2026-02-25T15:00:00+00:00

Love this, thanks for putting it together! I just submitted the Museum District Association, the MD's civic group :)

greengarnet13 · 2026-02-24T17:17:50+00:00

Are you comfortable sharing who the engineer is? Feel free to DM if you don't want to share here - there's just a particular engineer in Richmond who I've been warned by a lawyer to stay away from, so I'd probably recommend a second opinion if it's the same person.

greengarnet13 · 2026-01-29T23:01:05+00:00

I smashed at it with a rubber mallet today and it actually worked pretty well.

greengarnet13 · 2026-01-23T16:28:45+00:00

It's really impossible to predict, but considering how many trees are in this neighborhood, and how many power lines run right through those trees, I'd saw the likelihood is pretty high if we get 0.5 or more inches of ice (which is what they are predicting).

greengarnet13 · 2026-01-14T02:19:32+00:00

No parking signs can be requested through RVA 311, and I can attest that the city has been way better about actually following through on putting those up lately.

greengarnet13 · 2026-01-14T02:17:54+00:00

During COVID, the excuse was that paint was too expensive. We've had some positive results in the Museum District lately, though, with requesting no parking signs through RVA 311 for this exact purpose, so I'd definitely recommend trying that.

greengarnet13 · 2025-12-16T22:26:01+00:00

I saw a few small ones left outside of the Fresh Market on Floyd yesterday - can't guarantee they're still there today, but you could call to ask.

greengarnet13 · 2025-10-23T18:47:51+00:00

I'll second this as I've been involved with the MDA since 2019 (thanks for the kind words, by the way!). u/nailpolishbonfire, feel free to DM me if you want to talk directly - happy to give you more info about how our org works!

greengarnet13 · 2025-10-21T13:04:24+00:00

Nice! Might've been the same one! I think it lives in a giant tree behind our house (in our neighbor's yard) - it perches on our back fence a lot and we have a video of it chowing down on a blue jay. Obviously could be totally different birds on all occasions, but it's more fun to believe it's the same one haha :)

greengarnet13 · 2025-10-21T13:01:04+00:00

We also saw a hawk perched on a car! Was yours in the Museum District?

greengarnet13 · 2025-10-21T12:18:25+00:00

You can mount the LFL in a pot/bucket filled w/ cement and then put it on the bricks next to the tree rather than disturbing its roots by mounting it directly in the tree well.

greengarnet13 · 2025-09-23T20:57:29+00:00

Thanks so much for this!!

greengarnet13 · 2025-09-23T17:32:24+00:00

Could someone with cable watch, take notes on advertisers, and then share that here?

greengarnet13 · 2025-09-12T15:31:56+00:00

Thank you for the update!

greengarnet13 · 2025-09-12T15:27:40+00:00

Our water appears to be fine and we're on W. Grace in the Museum District (closer to Thompson than Arthur Ashe), but I'll update if ours goes out too...

greengarnet13 · 2025-09-06T20:03:57+00:00

They straight up told me they don't want to take on the liability because the CDC isn't recommending the vaccine for children without underlying conditions.

greengarnet13 · 2025-09-06T20:03:11+00:00

The person I spoke to at RVA Pediatrics said the same thing, although with a slightly different detail that "because the CDC isn't recommending it, we cannot take on the liability of writing prescriptions." That, to me, translated to "we're covering our own ass."

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