Or we build the casino and use that money...

People keep forgetting which side of the ledger the casino is.

Whoa. Thanks! Eight years burned away arguing with you beautiful people! I've learned a lot from this subreddit.

I agree, if I was king of Richmond for a day I'd change our zoning rules to make it against regulations for an LLC to own a 1 - 4 family dwelling. Homes should be for shelter, not investing.

It should be illegal for corporations to own single family homes

Also, happy cake day!

Yeah, but you explain that to those people, while people across the river got plenty of entertainment venues and other investment properties.

I can't wait to vote NO again.

Voting to allow some asshole from Atlanta to have a casino monopoly in Richmond is embarrassing.

Either just legalize gambling or dont.

Elections have consequences....you can't just keep calling a vote until you get the results you want. Give it 5-10 years at least.

>promoting affordable housing and protecting existing homeowners from being taxed out of their homes by an overheated housing market

Oh, I've got the solution guys! Let's let homeowners and out of town investors buy homes and turn them into short term rentals. That will fix our housing market.

Trump was pretty sad about being defeated too. But that's how Democracy works. Not everyone is going to be happy, but if 51% of the neighbors vote a certain way, that's how it's gotta stay, unless we plan on fighting each and every election until we're happy with the results.

If enough people had wanted the casino, then enough people would have voted for the referendum, but we didn't, and we didn't. 🤷‍♂️

Conversely, I didn't vote on it and was largely ambivalent, but this open repudiation of a public referendum is maddening.

It was only defeated by like 2400 votes, and people around me are very upset about it being defeated.

if the city doesn't want to tax people out of their homes they could maybe stop taxing people out of their homes? Given the city is doing it, not the state?

That's ridiculous

>to prevent any state effort to accelerate the required completion of a $1.3 billion combined-sewer cleanup of the James River before 2035.

If the state and/or Fed chips in more dollars, then just get it done. If they don't, 2035 isn't realistic if it's solely funded by local dollars

Jesus Christ why can the casino project not die already. How deep are these lobbyists pockets? The fact that they are ignoring the vote they already had makes me double down on opposing it.

For those paywalled, this article preview from VPAP:

>Richmond's first wish from the General Assembly is another opportunity for voters to approve a casino, even if the city has to share regional gaming revenues with a potential rival operation in Petersburg. Most of Richmond's legislative priorities for the coming assembly session center on promoting affordable housing and protecting existing homeowners from being taxed out of their homes by an overheated housing market. The city also wants, as its second highest priority, to prevent any state effort to accelerate the required completion of a $1.3 billion combined-sewer cleanup of the James River before 2035.

Get a santa suit

https://www.reddit.com/r/rva/comments/zccl5v/santa_in_rva/

Am i the weird one who still mails most of my bills?

The great big greenhouse had an awesome (and free) one this past weekend along with the model train set ups. I don’t know if it is all month, but if it is I highly recommend.

I checked and they’re sold out for the season, unfortunately.

We made an appt at Short Pump yesterday. Got there about 15 minutes early and were first in line, in and out in under 10 mins. I don't know how it compares piecewise but we paid $52 for 7 prints and digital copies. Seemed pricey but I guess that's the nature of these things.

Legendary Santa?

Legendary Santa is awesome. I’ve heard bass pro is nice because you can walk around instead of wait.

Bummer these come out AFTER I'll be sending holiday cards of me + my cat. But with a January birthday, I could delay my thank-you note writing to relatives until these release...

Or send secret admirer valentines to friends. The possibilities are endless!