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Scott's Addition Green Space Plan: Small Changes Making a Big Impact

Scott’s Addition is a fast growing, postindustrial neighborhood situated on the north side of West Broad street and bordering Henrico county to the west. The current building stock in Scott’s Addition consists of industrial and manufacturing buildings, and warehouses, much of whi...

PLANNING AN INCLUSIVE ENTREPRENEURIAL ECOSYSTEM IN NORFOLK VIRGINIA

Provides an overview of Norfolk’s emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem and challenges associated with its disadvantaged entrepreneurs. Presents policy recommendations in creating more equitable environment for these small business ventures.

Impact Investment Strategy: Linking Health & Housing

The purpose of this plan is to create an impact investment strategy for RMHF that explicitly links health and housing. The strategy will use impact investing, an investment strategy that directs capital to enterprises that generate social and or environmental benefits for the sur...

Making a House a Home: A Community Plan for Regional Engagement on Housing

This plan was developed for Virginia Organizing, a statewide non-partisan grassroots organization dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering local communities. The plan was designed to produce a replicable model for organizers embarking on housing campaigns. Research on the...

A Strategy for the Cultivation of Community Strength

This professional plan is a community-based template for neighborhoods in the urban landscape that were once thriving and are now struggling with population stability. The study area is found in the south side of Richmond, Virginia in the neighborhoods of Bellemeade and Oak Grove...

Scenic Corridor and Trail-Oriented Development Plan for Charles City County, Virginia

The Virginia Capital Trail is a multi-use path that runs from Richmond to Jamestown, Virginia. Much of the trail goes through Charles City County. Charles City is a rural county with an estimated population of ~7,000 (2018). The county is part of the Richmond Virginia Metropolita...

VCU Campus Tree Plan

Throughout the past several years VCU has grown tremendously as a large public research university and an anchor institution within the city of Richmond However, VCU also has been working towards a more sustainable future and is committed to furthering sustainability in its commu...

Ampthill Neighborhood Market Analysis & Community Strengthening Plan

This is a Strengthening Plan in support of a future commercial corridor development in the Ampthill Neighborhood of Chesterfield County. It is a part of a larger strategy along Jefferson Davis Highway to strengthen ties between neighborhoods and businesses. The Plan encourages ec...

Saving the Libby Hill Viewshed: Preserving and Enhancing One of Richmond’s Greatest Assets

The view from Libby Hill Park in Richmond's Church Hill neighborhood has been identified as an endangered view, and the possibility of new development changing this view has increased in recent years. This plan explores what this view means to the identity of the neighborhood and...

Increasing Access to the James River Park System: A Community Roadmap with the Blackwell, Oak Grove, and Bellemeade Neighborhoods

Natural Parks like the James River Park System offer a host of benefits. They improve our mental health, make us better environmental stewards, Improve socialization, and make a healthier population by lowering the rates of asthma, obesity and hypertension. These public health ou...

The Fourth District Police Station Plan

The purpose of this plan is to identify potential police station sites and create design guidelines for the new police station for the Prince William County Police Department.

Expanding Housing Opportunities and Preserving Character in Historic Neighborhoods

The City of Richmond has been experiencing population growth and rising housing costs in recent years, leading to spatially uneven revitalization and growing affordability concerns. The historic neighborhoods in the city are part of what makes Richmond unique and a desired city t...

Virginia Commonwealth University Stormwater Management Plan

Every year millions of gallons of polluted stormwater and untreated sanitary waste are discharged directly into the James River during combined sewer overflow events. This is a problem considering stormwater is one of the most significant sources of pollution to the nation’s surf...

The Scott's Addition Complete Streets Plan

Scott’s Addition was once an industrial neighborhood. In recent years, however, the neighborhood has experienced a rapid transition of uses. It has become a growing residential and commercial neighborhood that features numerous breweries as its most popular attractions. Regrettab...

Implementation Plan for the Maggie Walker Community Land Trust to Operate as a Land Bank

The purpose of this plan is to provide an implementation framework for The Maggie Walker Community Land Trust (MWCLT) to utilize as it establishes its land banking operations. Through land banking, the MWCLT has an opportunity to address three interconnected issues in Richmond; a...

Myers Street Streetscape Plan

The Scott’s Addition neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia has faced growing density and redevelopment as the neighborhood has become an appealing place to live, work, and play. Myers Street sits directly East from most of Scott’s Addition and has historically housed many industrial...

Creating Safer Routes to School for Fairfield Court Elementary Students

The purpose of this plan is to conduct a Walkabout study for Fairfield Court Elementary School in Richmond, Virginia through the guidelines of the Safe Routes to School program. The plan seeks to address infrastructural and non-infrastructural issues relating to traffic, safety,...

Reinterpreting the Mutual Fund Theorem: The Risk Portfolio as a Tactical Overlay

The Mutual Fund Theorem is an elegant way of describing how investors with different attitudes towards risk should construct their portfolios. It is, however, often misinterpreted. This paper revisits the topic by defining the Risk Portfolio as a self-financed tactical overlay po...

Response-Controlled Dressed Dynamics Beyond Static Isolation in a Semiclassical Double Well

We study a random flea perturbation of the semiclassical quartic double well in a regime where the perturbation-to-harmonic-gap ratio need not remain bounded. For a fixed smooth nonnegative barrier-supported perturbation, relative-form control and an exact invariant-graph/Riccati...

The Override Asymmetry: Why ABSTAIN-Plus-Human-Override Is Not Guardrails-Plus-Human-in-the-Loop

Review-only human-in-the-loop and ABSTAIN with authorized resolution look alike in a workflow diagram. Both place a human near the moment an AI system might act, and both interrupt the action's path to execution. This technical note shows that the similarity is an artifact of dia...