The Richmond Planning Commission voted 4-0 last week to approve a 47-unit townhome development on Central Avenue, clearing the way for housing on a 2.58-acre lot near Interstate 80 that has sat vacant for more than two decades and cycled through a half-dozen failed proposals

A tiny home village for unhoused young adults at Bissell Avenue and 23rd Street is months away from opening its doors, and the group behind it is already planning a second. Dozens of visitors, including a youth delegation from Seine-Saint-Denis, France, toured the Tiny House Village, Farm and