July 09, 2008
Several copies of the Downtown Plan, a comprehensive document outlining future development in Richmond, have been found laying in multiple men’s bathroom stalls at City Hall, the director of community development said yesterday.
“Guys, honestly, this isn’t bathroom reading. I need you to take this thing seriously and use it to make some important decisions,” Rachel Flynn said in a sharply-worded email to all men at City Hall, including the mayor and his administrative staff. “You can’t just read over this in your spare time. I’m really just frustrated with each and every one of you right now.”
The Downtown Plan – which includes ideas for development of streetscapes, corporate offices, retail spaces and homes – was discovered in its original paperback binding in the third, eighth and ninth floor men’s bathrooms, Flynn said. At least one of the 72-page documents was hanging on a handicapped railing in one of the stalls, “signaling that [whoever was reading it] was coming back for more,” she said. “Disgusting.”
Flynn added that if men at City Hall really needed something to read, she knows of several of those Bible-verse-a-day books in women’s stalls that could be put to good use.
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