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Lee

Thank you! So they only take 2 year old and older?

$1600 per child. 16 months old each.

15 months old. I can wait so no need for immediate

Sure!

15 months old. Where do you pay that rate?

right! This is one of those things where everyone wins - customer needs recs and cleaning people love to get heir name and business out there

I paid $15 for 10 wings recently. Rip off...and it was a generic bar, not specialty wing place.

I'm so tired of going out... I'm so glad RVA has a "go to someone's house culture" unlike DC and NYC. I'd rather give the host the $15 in beer and home made food and do a pot luck hangout or just chill on a porch than to go to a bar anymore.

Everything is a ripoff and all the bars look the same. Even local breweries all look like they came out of a corporate package. I'm convinced 90% of scott's addition restaurants/breweries/bars are all just mega corporate owned with swanky names like "WOOD & IRON" and "THE BOX" and "DOLLAR GENERAL"

There was one guy in Jackson Ward that showed up to a meeting saying he didn't want permit parking b/c he owned a barbershop and it will ruin his business for customers to park.

He wouldn't let it go even after he was told non-permit people can be there for 2 hours.

He then said it is a travesty that his customers can't park in front (again).

Then one of the locals said "Maybe you should move your car from the front of the shop since you leave it there for 14 hours a day. That would leave a spot open."

We all proceeded to smirk at that burn.

Then the barbershop owner said "why don't you just build a 5 story parking deck so my customers can park there?" like building one is just a simple thing lol...like, where would we even get the precious block size downtown land in the first place if we even wanted to?

Guy just wanted all the perks and didn't want change. It was so annoying and it reminded me how unreasonable most people really are... I see it a lot on reddit honestly, especially when people talk about subjects they know nothing about.

Not saying we shouldn't do other things but this seems pretty cheap to me - a piece of plastic drilled into the ground....

Can't you read? He seen IT first hand. IT!

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That thing: IT!

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You clearly don't know anything about IT

While I love that art and murals in general, if it's not your property or you don't have permission from owner then f off from it

Never knew that area was called springhill or that it's historic. Funny that they allowed those generic monstrosities of apartments to go up in that district.

I know the lines can be technicalities -get it a lot in JW when we randomly find out a developer's lot is not in the historic district and everyone is shocked - Looking at you "The Penny"

Thanks - they originally had like 10 upvotes. Good to see it’s -5 now

We’re they a smiley bear with a forest ranger hat? 🐻

First, I’m not with CAR lol

Second, I live and own in historic Jackson Ward

Third, the JW board is all resident volunteers

Fifth, and most important, i am your HOA Karen and I will NOT be spoken to like this respect ME and my powers!

I’m on the Jackson Ward board reviewing and discussing this.

Before anyone rips my toe nails off: a lot of us are in a really difficult situation.

A lot of sides (there are more than just two) did not follow the proper steps while some are not consistent.

Let me just give an example: if the homeowner asked CAR for this mural he would have been denied. End of story. Then if he painted it then he would have been in big trouble. A much bigger headache than (s)he already has.

Another scenario is homeowner just went ahead and painted and didn’t ask for permission - this is what happened from what I am aware of. Now homeowner has a CAR problem.

Now, who is wrong? Well, just from that perspective one could say homeowner is wrong here…. BUT CAR hasn’t really been consistent. There have been other things that went up in JW that didn’t have CAR approval (and would have been 100% denied) but bc it already happened everyone just said “oh well” and moved on - that’s bc nobody complained (mainly).

There are also stories of residents spending $15k on windows and being forced to remove them bc it’s not in line with CAR.

Along with CAR not being consistent, I think we need CAR to get more realistic. They aren’t doing anything about graffiti to help an aging (and gentrifying of the poor) neighborhood but are going after a mural that covered up graffiti? Try removing graffiti off your brick and you will be hating your life AND they’ll just come back and do it again - it’s a quick crime that is such a headache.

CAR needs to come to 2023 age. Not allowing solar panels and murals and whatnot is silly.

I think this mural is doing a great job questioning wtf CAR is for and what they are doing with their standards. We can’t have a free-for-all in a historic area but we need flexibility. Homeowner should have asked permission but he would have just hit a wall - but that still pissed CAR off and from their point of view rightfully so - if they let him go then others will do it so they need to AT LEAST be a massive headache for him publicly even if they let him keep it.

Again, I’m in these meetings and I have some influence but it’s a very very tricky problem… lots of gray areas.

Im very much leaning on letting it stay and use this as an opportunity for conversation on modernizing CAR a bit. Very tricky.

I’ve been forced to replace my entire fence and porch bc of rot while my neighbors porch was in worse condition and there were abandoned homes down the street. It’s simply not fair that the policy seems to be “if someone complains then we do something about it” while they don’t enforce severe circumstances.

City council prays before meetings in RVA. House and Senate of VA pray before session starts daily.

It's VERY strange tbh... but that's the gray of the world we live in - humans vote and humans want what humans want.

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Keep voting.

beautiful day for it! just ran an errand with my bike...faster on bike than car and parking it!

It's almost like people who do vague complaints also give vague solutions when pushed to explain. It's almost like they have no clue what they are talking about and aren't actually involved to understand the context.

Anyone who thinks RPS schools haven't gotten better in the last 3, 5, 10, etc. years is just making noise. I'm actually quite shocked as how much of an improvement we have seen... but nothing can be done overnight.

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"ThEy ShoULd JuSt Do tHiS ThiNg I rEcOmMenD!!" are the same type of people who show up to school board meetings and stifle the entire process. Complainers get involved when it makes them feel good...they show up to a meeting, break glass, and then complain on why people have cuts on their feet from walking on glass and how "iT sHouLd bE CLeaNeD uP!!"

Don't even get me started on these types of peoples' voting history.

I'm looking at you "anti-drawing school lines equally" parents who want the perks of living in an already established "good" school district and then have the gonads and strife to complain about RPS schools not being good.

You are kroger. I am kroger. We are all lombardy kroger.

Why do all Chinese restaurants have the same menu pictures...and why are they all faded light blue?

Exactly what I was thinking.