Capitol Schlock

by Patrick McSweeney

The architectural standards of Virginia’s capital area have gone downhill ever since Thomas Jefferson designed the state capitol. It’s time to give the public more involved in planning.

The only thing uglier than some of the modern structures clustered around the Capitol in Richmond is the decision-making process that led to their approval.

As with most ugly practices, the decision-making about what will be demolished and what will take its place at the seat of government is carried out, for the most part, in secrecy–or at least beyond the view of average citizens and taxpayers. It’s time to let a little sunshine in. More.


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  1. Will Vehrs Avatar
    Will Vehrs

    So, is the Commission Schapiro wrote about in Sunday’s RT-D the answer?

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