Below are details on upcoming public meetings in the City of Richmond.
Richmond
City Council
1 p.m. Monday
Council chambers, 2nd floor, Richmond City Hall
301 N. 9th St.
The council is expected to hold a budget work session to review the city’s Capital Improvement Plan, which outlines major long-term projects, for fiscal year 2026.
City Council
6 p.m. Monday
Council chambers, 2nd floor, Richmond City Hall
301 N. 9th St.
Many of the proposals council members were expected to consider are set to be continued to another meeting.
But one ordinance still scheduled for a vote would provide stipends to members of the city’s Participatory Budgeting Steering Commission and allow the commission to create separate panels to help with its work.
At its 4 p.m. informal meeting, the council is set to hear a presentation on the city’s annual tourism report.
Planning Commission
6 p.m. Tuesday
5th Floor conference room, Richmond City Hall
301 N. 9th St.
Commission members are expected to vote on whether to recommend conceptual approval of the master plan for The Shockoe Project, the city’s initiative to recognize the impact of American slavery and Richmond’s role in it.
The commission is also set to consider the approval of plans for the project’s proposed pavilion at the site of Lumpkin's Slave Jail.
The Shockoe Project, which aims to be done by 2037, calls for 10 acres in Shockoe Valley to be turned into a multifaceted space with a north and south campus that eventually includes a National Slavery Museum. It would also commemorate sites in the area, such as the Richmond Slave Trail.
A special-use permit to build an apartment complex on Snead Road with up to 180 units and a clubhouse is also on the commission’s agenda.
City staff recommended rejecting the proposal, finding it “antithetical to the spirit and intent of the Richmond 300 plan due to its overall intensity, location, scale, and form,” according to city documents.
The commission’s votes are recommendations to the City Council, which gets final approval on proposals.
City Council
10 a.m. Wednesday
Council chambers, 2nd floor, Richmond City Hall
301 N. 9th St.
The council is scheduled to hold another FY26 budget work session.
Finance and Economic Development Standing Committee
2 p.m. Wednesday
Council chambers, 2nd floor, Richmond City Hall
301 N. 9th St.
The committee is slated to hear presentations on the upcoming real estate assessment freeze and the financial impacts of the city’s collective bargaining deals with employees.
