File #: ORD. 2024-283    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 10/16/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 11/12/2024 Final action: 11/12/2024
Title: To establish the City-owned real estate known as 1305 North 5th Street as a cemetery in accordance with City Code ? 7-21. (6th District)
Patrons: Mayor Stoney, Ellen Robertson, Vice President Ann-Frances Lambert, Cynthia Newbille
Attachments: 1. Ord. No. 2024-283, 2. Staff Report, 3. Public Comment, 4. Public Comment_Council

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To establish the City-owned real estate known as 1305 North 5th Street as a cemetery in accordance with City Code § 7-21. (6th District)

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WHEREAS, the City-owned real estate known as 1305 North 5th Street and identified as Tax Parcel No. N000-0233/006 in the 2024 records of the City Assessor (the “Site”) served as a portion of a significant burial ground for the City’s African-American population from 1816 to 1879; and

WHEREAS, the City, having recently reacquired the Site, and in recognition of the many interred at the Site and the profound historic and cultural importance of the Site, desires to formally establish the Site as a cemetery to assure its perpetual protection from disturbance and to memorialize it as a solemn and sacred landmark in the City of Richmond and for all residents and visitors of the city of Richmond;

NOW, THEREFORE,

THE CITY OF RICHMOND HEREBY ORDAINS:

§ 1.                     That the City-owned real estate known as 1305 North 5th Street and identified as Tax Parcel No. N000-0233/006 in the 2024 records of the City Assessor be and is hereby established as a cemetery in accordance with section 7-21 of the Code of the City of Richmond (2020), as amended, subject to the requirements of general law. For purposes of this ordinance, the term “cemetery” has the meaning ascribed to that term in section 7-1 of the Code of the City of Richmond (2020), as amended.

§ 2.                     That the cemetery established by section 1 of this ordinance shall not be subject to the requirements of section 7-3(a) of the Code of the City of Richmond (2020), as amended.

§ 3.                     This ordinance shall be in force and effect upon adoption.