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Why you? In third debate, Democratic candidates for governor answer the question GRAHAM MOOMAW

VM - The five Democratic candidates for governor in Virginia squared off in a virtual debate Thursday night, the third of four debates scheduled before the June 8 primary.

The hourlong event hosted by NBC4 Washington covered much of the same territory as the first two debates, with former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, Sen. Jennifer McClellan, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, former delegate Jennifer Carroll Foy and Del. Lee Carter laying out their plans for COVID-19 recovery, education, police reform and health care with few opportunities for extended back-and-forth between candidates.

Some of the most direct answers of the night came when moderator Chuck Todd of NBC News asked questions about electability and qualifications tailored specifically to each candidate.

Here’s how that portion went: Todd: “In the most recent debate before this one, Jennifer Carroll Foy said you represented the politics of the past. So why are you the best person to be your party’s nominee in the future?”

McAuliffe: “Listen, I’m here today because people know that I will go big and bold. People know that we now have COVID and the effects of that are going to be around for a long time. But I am here because the leadership of the Black Caucus in Virginia came to me and said

The five Democratic candidates for governor squared off in a virtual debate on May 20.

‘Terry, no one leaned in more for the Black and brown community than you did.’ More rights restoration than any governor in the history of the United States of America.

More pardons than any governor before me here in Virginia. You know, state Senator and President Pro Tem Louise Lucas, the most powerful African-American woman in the state, said ‘We need you to come back.’ She’s now chairing my campaign. But that’s why, if you look today, Chuck, that I have three times as [much] support from the Black Caucus of Virginia as everybody else on this stage combined. Why? I went big and bold under difficult situations before.

We need experience now to lead us out of this very tough crisis. I did it before. I’ll do it again. And I have big bold plans. One hundred and thirty pages. Fourteen proposals on

my website to take Virginia to the next level. We’ve tinkered around long enough. It is time to lead for today.”

Todd: “Ms. Carroll Foy, you have never run for statewide office before, and you served just a single full term in the House of Delegates. So why should the party take a chance on you to defeat the Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin?”

Carroll Foy: “So the Republican Governors Association is attacking me because they are worried. And they should be. They know that I am the most electable in this race because I will out-inspire and outwork the Republicans in November. I flipped a Republican district while pregnant with twins, and being outspent and out-endorsed. But I will never be outworked. So many people have told me all my life that it’s not my time and not my turn. Millions

of women out there know exactly what that feels like. Having our experience undermined and our credentials questioned. But I’m not here to ask the patriarchy for permission. I’m here to get things done for the people of Virginia.

And I’ve been one of the most effective legislators in Virginia’s history: Passing the Equal Rights Amendment, Medicaid expansion and so much more. So we have an opportunity to build back Virginia in a way that leaves no one behind.

And that’s what this campaign is about. That’s why we’re mobilizing.

We have the energy. We have the message that’s resonating with the people. And I ask for their support for governor on June 8.”

Todd: “Ms. McClellan, a new TV ad of yours argues that Mr.

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Two Hampton Roads health systems’ legal battle reignites old debate over state’s medical facility policy KATE MASTERS VM - For years, a battle between two competing hospital systems in Hampton Roads has spilled into the halls of the Virginia Capitol and the hands of sometimes reluctant legislators.

Now, it’s spilled into the court system. In late April, Chesapeake Regional Medical Center sued Sentara, the region’s dominant health system, claiming Sentara worked deliberately to “cripple” Chesapeake’s cardiology program. Among the heated allegations are that Sentara worked secretly to poach doctors that formed the backbone of Chesapeake’s program, persuading them to break their contracts and join the muchlarger system.

At the root of the business dispute, though, lies a nearly 50-year-old Virginia policy — one that’s become the center of countless debates in the state’s General Assembly.

Since 2017, Chesapeake has sought to establish its own open-heart surgery program, a service offered by Sentara and multiple other hospitals in the region. But to do so, it has to go through Virginia’s Certificate of Public Need Program, a bureaucratic process that governs medical services and facilities across the state.

Virginia isn’t the only state with COPN laws. But its program is known for being uniquely granular. Approval is needed not only for major projects, like building a new hospital, but for purchases as small as a new MRI machine or CT scanner. Even adding licensed beds to an existing facility requires going through the application cycle.

The process also allows competitors to oppose projects they view as a threat to their existing services. It’s done routinely and frequently. When Chesapeake first applied for an open-heart surgery program, the application was derailed when Sentara requested what’s known as an “informal fact finding conference” — a chance for it to contest the merits of the project.

Eleven months later, Chesapeake’s application was denied by State Health Commissioner Dr. Norman Oliver, despite initially being recommended for approval by staff at the Virginia Department of Health.

That background factors heavily into the hospital’s lawsuit against Sentara, which — not content with its majority hold on local cardiology services, Chesapeake alleges — “seeks to eliminate competitors who attempt to encroach on its monopoly service lines.”

It’s far from the first clash between the two health systems. In Virginia, it’s common

for providers to fight over the COPN process and appeal to the General Assembly for legislative solutions. But long-time observers say it’s unusual for the matters to end up in court.

“This probably represents a new level, in some respects, of controversy between health systems,” said Don Harris, who spent more than four decades in government relations for Inova Health System before joining Del. Mark Sickles, D-Fairfax, as his senior policy adviser. COPN applicants sometimes file litigation against the state health commissioner to contest a decision — a step that was also taken by Chesapeake. Of more than half a dozen experts interviewed by the Mercury, though, none could think of another instance where one health system sued another and cited COPN-related activity.

At stake is more than $20 million in damages that Chesapeake is seeking for Sentara’s “malicious” interference in its business, according to the filing, first reported by the Checks & Balances Project, which describes itself as an investigative blog and has set its sights on Sentara’s power and influence. But the litigation could also force COPN laws, which faded in prominence at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, back to the forefront for Virginia legislators.

In the 1980s and ’90s, Harris said disputes tended to be between hospitals and physician groups, who were becoming increasingly interested in establishing their own outpatient surgery centers. But as most health systems have moved to acquire medical practices and establish their own outpatient services, opposition to COPN applications more frequently comes from competing hospitals.

If that results in more lawsuits — or more legislation designed to benefit a particular health system — Harris thinks lawmakers could begin to reconsider the COPN program.

Because at the end of the day, experts say, the Virginia legislature doesn’t like to choose between competing business interests.

“When you put legislators in the middle of these disputes, it does provide a lot of ammunition for them to say, ‘Well, why don’t we just get rid of the law altogether?’”

Harris said. “It puts them in an unwinnable situation.”

Over the years, providers have often looked for legislative intervention in the form of what lobbyists refer to as “carve-outs.” In bills addressing the COPN process, a frustrated applicant — often a health system — will slip

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Site proposal wins the RVA’s casino sweepstakes RBiz - Richmond has chosen its preferred casino site.

Urban One’s pitch to develop a $600 million, 300,000-square-foot casino on the Southside at 2001 Walmsley Blvd. has been selected by the city’s Resort Casino Evaluation Panel as the top proposal, Mayor Levar Stoney’s office announced Thursday.

The ultimate decision of whether or not the casino gets built is now in the hands of city residents, who will vote on whether to grant a casino license through a referendum on Nov. 2, 2021.

Through the city’s RFP process, Urban One beat out The Cordish Cos., a Baltimore-based developer which operates casinos nationwide

Candidates (from page 1) McAuliffe represents the past. But you chaired his transition to be governor. So how do you square your past support of him versus your opposition now?”

McClellan: “Governor McAuliffe was the right governor for that time. But Virginia is different. And the good news is we don’t have to choose between a new perspective and experience, because I bring both. I bring the experience of someone whose parents lived through the tyranny of Jim Crow during the Depression. And I came to the General Assembly as a 32-year-old Black woman from the most Democratic district in the state, operating in a body that was mostly White Republican men over 50. And yet I’ve been able to pass over 300 bills. And since being in the majority, I’m the only person on this stage who has passed bills to address clean energy and address climate change, to expand access to reproductive health, to expand worker protections to domestic workers and to create the Voting Rights Act of Virginia, one of the strongest voting rights acts in the country. And I have the support of the people on the ground who

under its “Live!” brand. Cordish was proposing to build a casino on 17 acres of Bow Tie Partners-owned

land at 1301 N. Arthur Ashe Blvd.

Four other casino operators submitted proposals to build in

Richmond in February, and in the following months the city gradually cut the field down to Urban One and Cordish.

Known for its dozens of radio stations, including four in Richmond, Urban One teamed up with Peninsula Pacific Entertainment on its bid for a casino. Peninsula Pacific owns and operates Colonial Downs Racetrack and five Rosie’s Gaming Emporium locations in Virginia, along with a pair of casinos in New York and Iowa.

Urban One got a taste for the casino business in 2016, when it invested $40 million for a minority stake in MGM National Harbor, a resort casino in Maryland.

have been doing the work to address inequity, and have done more to address inequity than any other candidate on this stage. And bringing perspectives that were not represented in the General Assembly. I will do the same as governor. And that is why the grassroots support of New Virginia Majority and Care in Action is so important. Because they know I’ve been doing the work.”

Todd: “Mr. Fairfax, you are running on your experience as lieutenant governor, but if voters are looking for experience, executive experience, why choose you over somebody who’s already been governor?”

Fairfax: “Well Chuck, our current governor, Gov. Northam, served as lieutenant governor and then was elected to governor. The same for now-Senator Tim Kaine. And of course, Gov. Doug Wilder first served as lieutenant governor and four years later was elected governor. I believe the experience we’ve had in the last four years, being part of the most progressive administration in the history of the Commonwealth of Virginia, is something that has really resonated with millions of voters around the Commonwealth. I have been proud of the work that I’ve done to break the ties to expand Medicaid,

so now 550,000 more Virginians have health insurance as a result.

Breaking the ties to make Virginia the first state in the South to legalize marijuana. Also helping to lead the fight around gun violence prevention, focusing on so many of the issues that go to the heart of whether or not people are safe, secure and have the opportunity to achieve the American dream.

And so we’ve put forward an incredible vision that is focused on investments in education, investments in the future. And you pair that with the experience that we’ve had and the success that we’ve had over the last four years, and that’s a vision that I think Virginians support.”

Todd: “Mr. Carter, Democrats have been trying to defend themselves from Republicans calling them socialists for years now. But you’re a proud socialist Democrat. Why wouldn’t that be a liability for the party’s next gubernatorial nominee?”

Del. Lee Carter, a Democrat from Manassas who identifies as a democratic socialist, was elected to the House of Delegates in 2017.

Carter: “‘Cause they’re going to call you that anyway Chuck. They called Joe Biden a socialist and he’s about as far right as you can

get in the Democratic party. The Republican party is not beholden to the truth. And so you just got to lean in. You got to explain the benefits of your policies to the voters. And the question is, who is going to excite voters the most in November?

Are people who have been fighting against the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Atlantic Coast Pipeline for the last six or seven years going to be excited to vote for the guy who approved those pipelines? Of course they’re not.

Are people who are struggling to pay the rent because the Amazon deal jacked up the price of their housing going to be excited to vote for any of the four candidates that supported it? Of course they’re not.

Are people who care about getting money out of politics going to be excited to vote for a corporatefunded candidate? Of course they’re not. I’m the only candidate in this Democratic primary who’s never taken a single dime from fossil fuel corporations, who’s never taken a single dime from big banks, who’s never taken a single dime from police organizations. I’ve never taken any money from any for-profit corporation or industry interest group. I never have and I never will.”

The final debate of the primary will be held June 1.

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It’s Time for a Black Woman on SCOTUS BEN JEALOUS I am eager to see a brilliant Black woman serving as a U.S. Supreme Court justice. I hope to celebrate her swearing-in later this year.

If you’re thinking, “Did I miss something?” the answer is no, there is no vacancy on the Court right now.

But there has been talk that Justice Stephen Breyer, who is 82 years old, might step down after the current Supreme Court term ends in June.

Some activists and legal scholars are encouraging Breyer to step down now. That would give President Joe Biden a chance to fulfill his campaign promise to name a Black woman to the high court.

And it would let a Biden nominee be considered by a Senate that is not controlled by Republicans.

Never forget that when Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell was majority leader, he abused his power to slow-walk President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees.

And he refused to allow the Senate to even consider Obama’s Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland, leaving a seat vacant for more than a year.

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during the Trump administration— including a third Trump Supreme Court justice who was rammed through the Senate just days before voters turned Trump out of office.

Those Trump judges threaten the legal legacy of the first Black person to serve on the Supreme Court, the brilliant Justice Thurgood Marshall.

And that threatens all of us.

As a Marylander with deep roots in Baltimore, I am proud that a native son of that great city was the first Black justice on our country’s highest court. As a lifelong civil rights activist, I am grateful that a strategist for the civil rights movement was given the opportunity to advance equality under law as a Supreme Court justice. As a Black man and father The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions. Letter writers and columnists opinions are their own and endorsements of their views by The LEGACY should be inferred. The LEGACY assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material.

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of Black children, I am thankful for the ways that Marshall changed history. And I am deeply committed to defending those changes at a time when they are under attack.

The threat to our lives, and to a multiracial, multiethnic democratic society, does not just come from violent white supremacists or abusive cops. It comes from Republican politicians whose response to high Black voter turnout in 2020 is to make it harder for many of us to vote. And it comes from judges who dismiss evidence of systemic racism and uphold voter suppression.

What better time to have a powerful Black woman on the high court as a voice for truth and accountability?

That is especially true now that another civil rights champion, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has left the court, and been replaced by a justice who does not share her values. We need someone to fill the shoes of both Marshall and Ginsburg, two of the most transformative lawyers in our nation’s history.

Fortunately, there are plenty of Black women who represent the values of the civil rights community and are ready to serve.

Black women lawyers are fighting for civil rights every day. Black women scholars are expanding our understanding of systemic racism and its impact on all of us. Black women strategists are defending voting rights. Black women activists are building coalitions and electing politicians who are committed to defending our rights and our communities.

Candidate Joe Biden demonstrated his recognition of the importance of Black women when he chose Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate.

And he excited many of us with his promise to name a Black woman to the Supreme Court. The American people made Biden president and made Harris the first woman, first Black person, and first Asian American to serve as vice president.

I am looking forward to working with President Biden to confirm to the Supreme Court a phenomenal Black woman who will champion the values of freedom, justice, opportunity, and equality at a time when they urgently need champions.

It will be a relief to see her take her seat. And it will be glorious.

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House Democrats just introduced a bill designed to lower prescription drug prices. It doesn't. But wait, it gets worse.

The Lower Drug Costs Now Act, or H.R. 3, is a reprise of a 2019 bill that passed the House but failed to gain support in the Senate.

Back then, opponents criticized the measure for the impact it would have on innovation. One economic analysis found the 2019 bill would result in 56 fewer new drugs over a decade.

To preempt that criticism this time around, the new version boosts funding for the National Institutes of Health.

The logic here rests on the notion that government researchers invent and develop new drugs.

While I sympathize with the desire to lower drug costs for everyday Americans, that logic is wrong. The new version of H.R. 3 would have just as devastating an impact on innovation as the old version.

Yes, NIH labs and federally supported researchers at

universities conduct critical, basic research that broadens our understanding of medicine.

But private firms, backed by billions in private capital, explore those ideas to see if they might be able to develop new drugs. If those companies think they’re onto something, they begin the arduous and expensive process of FDA clinical trials.

At the end of the day, private firms, not the federal government, invent new drugs.

Peter J. Pitts

(from page 4) Jealous serves as president of People For the American Way and People For the American Way Foundation.

He has decades of experience as a leader, coalition builder, campaigner for social justice and seasoned nonprofit executive. In 2008, he was chosen as the youngest-ever president and CEO of the NAACP. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and he has taught at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania.

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(from page 2) in a clause meant to ensure their success in the process.

One recent example was a failed amendment in a 2020 bill from Sen. George Barker, D-Fairfax, which aimed to streamline the application process. At one point, the legislation would have exempted HCA Healthcare from going through the COPN process for a new neonatal care unit in the Roanoke region. The system has long been embroiled in a fight with Carilion, which opposes HCA’s efforts to establish a new NICU. VDH has sided with Carilion, arguing the area has enough services to meet the existing need.

But Chesapeake, especially, has a history of inspiring specific legislation to protect it from Sentara. The same year that HCA sought a carveout in Barker’s bill, Sen. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, sponsored narrowly tailored legislation that would have added a COPN requirement to any freestanding emergency department owned by an affiliated hospital located within 35 miles specifically within Planning District 20 (which covers much of the Hampton Roads region).

The bill was a direct response to freestanding emergency departments established by Sentara, which Chesapeake — and its supporters — argued were deliberately siphoning well-resourced patients to Sentara hospitals.

The previous year, Chesapeake and Sentara were the focus of yet another legislative fight when Sen. J. Chapman Petersen, D-Fairfax City, sponsored a bill that would have required vertically integrated health carriers — insurance plans that also own hospitals — to allow public hospitals to participate in their networks. This time, the dispute focused on the Sentara-owned health plan, Optima, which Chesapeake argued didn’t accept all the services it offered in-network.

“They felt that Optima was favoring Sentara hospitals and services and not giving them an equal opportunity,” said Del. Terry Kilgore, R-Scott, who served as chair of the House Commerce and Labor committee at the time. Chesapeake has frequently served as a convenient proxy in the COPN war, both for its local lawmakers and for legislators who more generally oppose the process. The hospital is one of the few independent facilities left in Virginia — one that’s not owned by a large corporation with multiple hospitals across the state. And it’s controlled locally through the Chesapeake Hospital Authority, a governing body with members appointed by the Chesapeake City Council.

It was conceived more than 50 years ago by local residents and community leaders, who led the drive to fundraise and build the hospital. Those hometown ties have inspired fierce loyalty among residents and the local legislators who represent them.

But other lawmakers, including Petersen, have argued that smaller players like Chesapeake need protection from entities like Sentara, a multi-billion dollar company with 12 hospitals across Virginia and northeastern North Carolina.

“Honestly, I feel like it was inevitable it was going to come to this point,” said Lauren Schmitt, a lobbyist who’s worked on COPN bills for the Virginia Orthopaedic Society, which is part of a loose coalition focused on reforming the process. “We’ve seen a lot of the larger health systems dominate the process. And I think Chesapeake, especially, is pretty frustrated with the process that they’ve been going through over the last few years.”

That frustration is palpable in the lawsuit, in which Chesapeake points out that Sentara holds about 70 percent of the market share for cardiology services in the Hampton Roads region. Chesapeake is “the only one of three systems without an openheart surgery program,” said Johan Conrod, the attorney representing the hospital in its suit.

Terry Kilgore But what forced the hospital to litigate, he said, was Sentara’s successful poaching of seven cardiologists from Bayview Physician Services. The private medical group was contracted by Chesapeake to provide the bulk of its existing cardiology services, and losing those doctors nearly upended the program. It was only through “significant additional cost” that the hospital was able to continue providing those services to its patients, Chesapeake claims in its suit.

“There can be no debate that if your interventional cardiologists walk out the door, you as a community hospital have to scramble to make sure people are served,” Conrod said. “It massively impacted Chesapeake, and you can’t get around that.

This wasn’t one of those car accidents that happened at 2 miles per hour. These events caused a lot of damage.”

Whether Sentara stole those doctors is the subject of separate litigation filed in Virginia Beach. Chesapeake alleges that Sentara began meeting secretly with the cardiologists in early 2019, “not long after taking steps to block CRMC’s open heart application,” according to its lawsuit. Gary Bryant, an attorney for Sentara, counters it was the doctors who approached the system for employment after deciding to end their contract with Bayview.

But neither system is arguing against the COPN system itself. Both parties frame it as a contract dispute — despite Chesapeake claiming that “undermining” its COPN application was “part of Sentara’s plan to cripple CRMC’s cardiology services program.”

“While it makes a number of COPNrelated allegations, none of the claims relate to COPN,” wrote Jamie Martin, an outside counsel to Sentara who represents the system in matters involving the process. Sentara, too, said the litigation revolved around the question of whether the cardiologists had broken their contract with Bayview when they went to work for Sentara.

“We are focused on our patients and not-for-profit mission to improve health every day by providing safe and quality care to the communities we serve,” Dale Gauding, a spokesman for the system, said in a statement. “It is unfortunate that Chesapeake Regional Medical Center chose to file a lawsuit involving a contract dispute, not a Certificate of Public Need, instead of continuing to focus on the communities we serve – especially as we continue to face the COVID-19 pandemic together.”

That’s because hospitals remain one of the most enthusiastic supporters of Virginia’s COPN program, despite sometimes falling victim to it. Health systems, which are required to accept all patients regardless of insurance status, argue that protecting local monopolies on profitable services such as knee replacement and imaging subsidizes loss generators like NICUs and psychiatric beds.

“COPN proved its worth and proved its value as a foundational block of the health care delivery system during the pandemic,”

said Julian Walker, the vice president of communications for the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association. He pointed to facilities that served on the frontlines despite losing millions during a pause in elective surgery and surges of often-costly COVID patients. If any provider was able to expand without input from the state, health systems argue it could undercut their own services to the point where they’d have to close, leaving communities without a vital health resource.

State data highlights the extent to which all hospitals participate in the COPN process. In May 2020, Chesapeake wrote its own letter of concern when Sentara submitted an application to open a new operating room at Virginia Beach General Hospital. A few months later, both systems opposed Bon Secours’ effort to significantly expand its services at Harbour View in Suffolk, arguing the competing health system was trying to transfer more care to a higher-income area.

There have even been deals struck between the two. During the 2019 fight over vertically integrated health carriers, Kilgore said he brokered a handshake deal between Chesapeake and Sentara.

Sentara wanted the bill to go away. Chesapeake agreed on the condition Sentara wouldn’t oppose its new COPN application for an open-heart surgery program.

“We’ve always said the focus should be on providing care to patients where it’s more convenient and less expensive,” Schmitt said. And when hospitals can influence the system, she argued, it’s patients who suffer from inflated costs and less access to services.

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BZA 31-2021: An application of CCR3 Holdings LLC for a lot split and building permit to construct a new single-family attached dwelling at 107 NORTH NANSEMOND STREET. BZA 32-2021: An application of Shannon Harton for a building permit to construct an accessory structure to an existing single-family detached dwelling at 3351 CORLEY HOME DRIVE.

BZA 33-2021: An application of Lewis W Combs III for a lot split to reduce the lot area of an existing nonconforming two-family detached dwelling and a building permit to construct a new single-family detached dwelling on the newly created lot at 1022 WEST 48th STREET. BZA 34-2021: An application of Historic Richmond Renovations, LLC for a building permit to construct a new single-family detached dwelling at 2620 Q STREET. BZA 35-2021: An application of Cava Capital LLC for building permits to construct two new singlefamily detached dwellings at 1725 & 1727 NORTH 28th STREET. BZA 36-2021: An application of SEVENTH CORNER, LLC for a building permit to construct a new five-story mixed-use building at 15 WEST 7th STREET. The case plans and agenda will be made available on the City’s legislative website not later than May 14, 2021: https://richmondva.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx The public may listen to the Microsoft Teams electronic meeting and offer comment by calling 804-316-9457 and when prompted entering code 392 755 966#. For video access by computer, smart phone or tablet visit https://richmondva.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx. Select the Board of Zoning Appeals drop-down and 2021 drop-down, click meeting details for June 2, 2021 meeting and then click video access. In the event you have difficulty accessing a public hearing you may contact Mr. William Davidson at 804-396-5350 or by email at William.

Davidson@richmondgov.com for assistance. In accordance with Ordinance No. 2020-232, please be advised that an inability to access one of the enumerated public hearing through video means shall not be considered a prerequisite for participating in the subject public hearing. In order to ensure your participation it will be necessary for you to call in at 1 PM and stay on the line until such time as your case is called. Please be advised that the Board of Zoning Appeals Rules of Procedure provides that in the case of an application for a variance or a special exception, the applicant, proponents or persons aggrieved under §15.2-2314 of the Code of Virginia, in that order shall be permitted a total of six (6) minutes each to present their case. For this reason the Board respectfully requests that you be as brief as possible in your comments when your case is called by the Chairman to allow other individuals the opportunity to participate. For the purposes of the record it is also requested that before addressing the Board you identify yourself and spell your name.

The public may offer comments in advance of the scheduled electronic meeting by directing them to the email address listed below and the subject comments will be made available to the Board Members prior to the electronic meeting.

Roy W. Benbow, Secretary Phone: (804) 240-2124 Fax: (804) 646-5789 E-mail: Roy.Benbow@richmondgov.com