The Richmond Commission of Architectural Review will devote part of its Oct. 14 quarterly meeting to a preliminary plan for reorganizing and updating its design guidelines, staff members said during the Sept. meeting.

City staff member Alex said the commission's upcoming quarterly meeting will be used to begin bringing draft ideas about revamping the guidelines to the commission. City planner Yara described those ideas as a preliminary strategy focused on improving visuals, adding educational content and making the guidelines more user friendly for applicants.

Yara said, "Yes. Just a second. What Alex has said, we're, working on we have a preliminary strategy in place on how to improve some visuals, have a little bit more educational content in there, and mostly be, user friendly, more better tools for the applicants to present a more, like, rounded application each time. So we're looking forward to discussing." The commission did not take final action; staff described the plan as high level and said the Oct. 14 session will be an opportunity to present precedents and solicit the commission's input.

Alex told the commission the meeting will likely be about an hour and a half and that staff may need to change the meeting room depending on availability. No budget, ordinance changes or timeline for final adoption were presented at the Sept. meeting.

The commission's next quarterly meeting is scheduled for Oct. 14 at 6 p.m.; the exact room was not yet confirmed.