Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where do people in your community gather or socialize?
  - How and where does your community access services (healthcare, transportation, educational services, etc.)?

Examples of activities and services: Shopping areas, schools and universities, libraries, parks, lakes, rivers, places of worship, healthcare services, public transport, local nonprofit organizations, etc.

Your response: Recreating along the James River and the parks in it's vicinity, such as Belle Island, Chimborazoo, Petronius Jones and Byrd Park area common past time for our community. These parks are a popular place to meet up with friends and often host farmer's markets and other events. The Carytown commercial district is a popular place for our community to shop and eat.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What are the cultural bonds in your community?
  - If your community has a shared history, what is it?

Examples of cultural or historical interests: Religious groups, ethnic groups, languages, age groups, immigration status, historic or arts districts, etc.

Your response: Our community is grappling with our long history and entanglement with the confederacy as well as Richmond's role in the slave trade. Our community is strongly invested in dismantling false narratives and moving away from Jim Crow era monuments and story-telling.

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  - Where are residents employed?
  - If there are environmental concerns in your community, what are they?

Examples of economic or environmental interests: Tourism industry, agricultural workers, mining town, manufacturing center, polluted natural resource, unemployment problem, etc.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What should politicians and/or map drawers know about your community?
  - What are the needs of your community?
  - Is there anything else you want to tell us about your community?

Examples of needs or concerns: Keep community in the same district or separate into multiple districts, shared policy concerns, need for a social service, relationship to other nearby communities, issues with current district lines

Your response: Richmond is unfortunately, very economically and racially segregated. It would be very easy to carve the Richmond metro area into multiple districts that "just so happen" to divide citizens by race. Any district borders that split Richmond, Henrico county and northern Chesterfield county into more than one district would be highly suspect and would split up a community.