Lots of interesting commentary is appearing around town on various blogs reflecting thoughts and opinions regarding the city’s Downtown Master Plan session held this past Thursday. Commentary includes:

From Buttermilk & Molasses:

If applause is a measure of the audience’s priorities, then Richmond wants more than good design downtown — it wants bike lanes and affordable housing; it wants someone to fix the schools and to help the homeless; it wants a green city, and a city built around the James River.

From Urban Richmond:

The consensus: too much talking and repetition from earlier meetings, but participants were diverse for a change and seemed to agree on the changes Richmond needs to make.

Since the current master plan is pretty much confined to the Downtown area, we’re asking our readers what input would YOU provide input on if a master plan was developed for the Near West End? Please feel free to comment below and share your input!