Update:
KBS shifted the concrete barriers along N Harrison about six inches. While this puts them in compliance with the permit, it also shows that moving the barriers is possible, perhaps even easy for them*.
However, the barriers still affect the traffic flow - sticking out into the street a good 3 to 4 feet more than a parked car, for example.
I realize the demolition and construction of this development will cause inconvenience to the neighborhood.
But the new developments on Lombardy near the I95/I64 overpass, and just north of I95 on Chamberlain, were both built with barriers ending at the sidewalk. Why are this development's barriers extended 16+ feet further out than those other developments? It seems excessive at the expense of the neighborhood. Especially since they only have 3 feet of buffer between the development and the Brewery Apartments.
If they need as much buffer as possible during demolition, I ask that they only use that buffer when needed. For example, there's no reason to have 16+ feet of buffer at the corner of W Clay and Norton as they demolish the building at the corner of W Marshall and Harrison. And, for example, there's no reason to have concrete barriers affecting the traffic flow during the six months of construction in order for protect the neighborhood during several days of demolition.
So, I ask that, if nothing else, KBS be required to move the barriers back to the curb after building demolition is complete.


*I did speak to the KBS foreman, requesting that they move the barriers out of the traffic flow. Since KBS gave "difficulty" as the reason they could not move the barriers, that they then moved them only 6 inches begins to look like a "bad faith" attitude toward the neighborhood.

The fire hydrant at the SE corner of W Clay and Norton is now blocked by a 6 foot fence and concrete barrier.

This issue needs to be given to DPW not Community Development per previous comment.

The Property Maintenance Division for the City of Richmond has received your complaint; however this case was forwarded to the Department of Public Works for resolution, please contact them for further information.

Please have the appropriate department respond to this issue on this public forum. Thanks.

Larger triangle-shaped road hazard reflectors were put up on the ends of the barriers this morning. While that may help make them safer, it is also an acknowledgment by the contractor, or whoever asked the contractor to put them up, that the barriers are an unsafe road hazard.

Please have the barriers moved back until they are even with parked cars while demolition is taking place.
(That's what makes them so dangerous. Traffic is moving along a row of parked cars when drivers suddenly encounter the end of a concrete barrier sticking three or four feet further out into the road.)

Then have the barriers moved back to the curb when demolition is complete.

Thank you for saving a life.

5/25/2012 - Currently under review by the City of Richmond government – rtt

5/30/2012 Thank you so much for your communication with the City of Richmond government. After having inspected this location a few times since March 2012, Richmond Engineering (CRS #200208261120) has noted the barriers cause no impediment to Southbound traffic flow on N. Harrison Street - closing ticket - rtt