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The Richmond Planning Commission advanced two long-range guides to future development Monday, one addressing the city’s riverfront in Richmond’s East End and one addressing the route of the forthcoming GRTC Pulse.

The action on the riverfront amends the city’s existing Riverfront Plan to address development on the north side of the river in the area of Intermediate Terminal just west of Rocketts Landing.

As drafted, the plan calls for a renovated dock with a boardwalk for fishing at the terminal, which was once a busy dock for ships hauling sugar from Cuba. The plan calls for a recreation area and terraced access to the water at the location of the former Lehigh Cement Silos just west of the dock.

Richmond Planning Director Mark Olinger said funding for work to the dock, the stabilization of which has begun, is already budgeted. Work on the terraced recreation area would need to be funded in future budgets.

The action on the Pulse Corridor Plan advances a vision of denser, urban development along the seven-mile route of the city’s new bus rapid transit system, which will run along Broad and Main streets and is scheduled to open in October.