Environment
“Dog park” sort of misses the mark when describing the Point Isabel Regional Shoreline. This is no fenced off stretch of dirt. Point Isabel is the largest public off-leash dog park in the country with roughly half a million dog visits each year.
About 50 residents, Gompers High School students and local leaders gathered Thursday to mark the restoration of the Gompers Garden Mural, a massive swath of color and life that has imprinted a lush, vibrant jungle environment on a concrete wall.
South African environmental activist Desmond D’Sa also took a “toxic tour” of Richmond’s challenges after Monday’s protest.
Councilman Tom Butt and other Richmond leaders want to ban plastic bags in retail and grocery stores, with or without the support of neighboring cities.
In July the city will approve a new general plan, a huge policy document that will shape the future of the city for the next couple decades. The draft plan adds a unique element to the plan that focuses city policy on efforts to improve the health of Richmond residents, putting the city at the forefront of combining city policy and public health.
City and county leaders joined with members of Richmond’s growing urban farming community to discuss ways to keep West County communities at the forefront of the movement toward locally-grown foods.
It’s a blend of hope and heartbreak, of promise and peril.
In North Richmond, a community farming project may be the answer to providing healthy choices to residents who have long lived in a “food desert.”
Ready to move forward after the first quashed attempt, Chevron’s Richmond refinery began the process to restart its embattled Renewal Project on Monday by filing a new conditional use permit application. This will be the second attempt to complete the project, which was halted by a county appellate court in 2009 after it was narrowly approved by the city council. The project is meant to upgrade equipment at the refinery and replace aging components.