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14'-0" of overhead clearance is the standard federal rule for local streets. I'd be surprised if floats were ever allowed to be over 14'-0" before. I was under the impression that wires and street lights were typically set pretty close to 14'-0" above the roadway (which is why so many had to be relocated for the project).

I just assume that the characters in sitcoms are so realistic that they are able to live in such nice, $4000+ per month apartments in NYC because they, not unlike a handful of people I know, use their paycheck solely on clothes and booze, and pay the rent with their parents money.

Park 3 there, have the other one in the parade on Race Street

They painted these at the Banks yesterday. It seems like they are doing it everywhere.

^ I've found some articles online that seem to imply that these laws aren't enforced very often so it probably won't be an issue. There are a handful of bars I can think of off the top of my head that violate portions of that code - be it bottomless drinks at brunch, reverse happy hours, etc. and haven't been forced to stop. These are the type of morality based nanny-state laws that I really hate.

ORC 4301:1-1-50 Limitations on happy hours and similar retail price reductions. I don't know how this stock market style pricing concept is legal given section (B)(1)(a), unless they switch back to regular prices after 9:00PM in accordance with section (B)(2).

^ While it's more of a planning concept than an architectural style, "New Urbanism" typically leads to buildings that look like the ones in this rendering, and buildings like we see at The Banks.

By definition, "affordable housing" is typically considered housing that someone pays for with less than 30% of their income. Using that measure, affordable rent for the average City of Cincinnati family is between $800 and $900 a month.

From the way that statement is worded, it sounds like the report was compiled by city workers, who gave it to Black, who issued it upon his review. What further administrative reviews are their aside from Black? Is the "complete administrative review" simply Cranley looking at it? Does the mayor get to review everything the manager does? Luckily, I can't imagine even someone like Cranley will be able to weasel his way out of this one.

^ Even if they don't allow parking at all hours, they should re-stripe the lane as a parking lane. The lane is a driving lane for 3 hours a day, on weekdays only. In reality it is a parking lane that you can drive in at very limited times, but it is striped as a driving lane that you can sometimes park in. The striping does not match the usage, in my opinion, and is really what causes the confusion. I think something similar to this would make sense:

I would suggest the letter avoid the suggestion of moving the events. The organizers have stated they're open to moving them, but they haven't stated it in a way that convinces me they're really open to it. I think they have a "it's not broken, don't fix it" mentality as both festivals are very popular and grow every year. Moving the events would be ideal, and in my opinion make them much more enjoyable, but the immediate concern for me is having the two coexist over the next two years (especially Oktoberfest later this year). I think after the 2018 deadline the streetcar will be popular enough that shutting it down will be viewed by a majority of people, and council members, as the poor decision it really is. I think moving the events to better venues could be broken out as another issue altogether.

Does anyone have any pictures of the interior? I know I'd be interested in taking some if not - if for no other reason than to just have some record of it before its gone. Sherman Cahal[/member] would probably be interested, too. If renovation is really unfeasible, the pictures would help the cause.

Shutting down operations for a few hours during major events isn't an issue, in my opinion. The races are very early during a weekend morning and wouldn't impact the schedule much, and not many people move around downtown during the Opening Day parade anyway - since the majority are watching the parade. What would be a horrible mistake is shutting down the streetcar for 3 full days during Taste and Oktoberfest, when I imagine the streetcar would otherwise have some of its highest ridership of the year. I agree that contacting the Cincinnati Regional Chamber is the way to go. Also, what is the Health Expo? Their website says it is at Washington Park - why would an event in Washington Park want to close the streetcar down?

^ A Google search brings up plenty of examples of streetcars moving about through crowds of pedestrians. It doesn't seem to be a problem anywhere else on the planet, but for some reason people think it's an unprecedented problem, unique to Cincinnati. At most, the city should put up a few crowd barricades along the tracks and funnel people through designated crossings - that way it's easier for one of those cops who would otherwise be standing around to step over and spend 10 seconds clearing the drunks off the tracks.

The southwest corner of the building at 1233 Walnut collapsed this morning. I didn't grab a picture but all the local TV news channels were there filming.

Yeah, MPMF is one of my favorite weekends of the year in Cincinnati, and if the style of the festival shifts dramatically from what it's been I'll likely stop going. If they focus on bringing in bigger headliners rather than finding new and upcoming bands, they'll lose the appeal they had.

Concourse B is a huge connecting terminal, sized for thousands of people shuffling from gate to gate at any given time from 747s and other long range planes. Concourse A is like every other regional airport concourse. It'll be a big downgrade in quality of space when Concourse B is gone. Even with the renovation of Concourse A, it doesn't have the same appeal as B because it's closer to the ground, far narrower, has low ceilings, etc. It'll feel crowded in comparison, but that's mostly because we've all grown accustomed to the ghost town that is Concourse B.

I thought Sittenfeld would do worse. He's got no name recognition outside of Cincinnati city limits, and many of his supporters in Cincinnati aren't Democrats (council elections are nonpartisan and he got a lot of votes because he was against the streetcar while campaigning). I never liked him because he crashed into the scene in a "Manchurian Candidate" style. The bulk of his support comes from a handful of very wealthy family friends, which is one of the aspects of politics I despise the most.

That seems like a huge price tag. I was just inside this building a few months ago - it's pretty dated but seemed to be functional and relatively full of tenants (article says 70%). It seemed like Class B office space to me - not exactly decrepit. The vertical transportation was definitely lacking.

According to this post over on Reddit, they are planning to open in May.

The floor to floor height of the existing Donatos building doesn't look much shorter than average from the street. It must have some deep floor structure or some other oddity going on. It looks like it was originally a tin manufacturer, before becoming a wholesale saddlery, it could have been structured to support certain equipment. Those buildings are always fun to poke around in.

The safety net that is Photoshop encourages people to take bad, poorly lit, poorly composed photos because they assume they can just fix it later. I'm guilty of this all the time. Usually you can salvage something from a bad shot if you're shooting in RAW, but it can take a long, long time.

My gas range is in perpetual lock mode whenever it's not in use, ever since I watched my cat accidentally turn the oven on. Even electric ranges are pretty easy to accidentally turn on, they aren't as dangerous at first but it's much easier to not notice it's on.

^ So really they just raised all their prices 3%, and called it a "surcharge" in order to capitalize off of the recent hubub about low paid workers. And of course the media, and likely a ton of customers, have fallen for their ploy.

Yeah, the time to complain about auto-centric buildings at Oaklay Station came and went a long time ago. The entire area is laid out in a way that discourages anyone from walking into or through it at all, drive thru restaurants like this are exactly what people should have expected. I had no idea that was what they meant by double drive-thru, though. I haven't been to a Chik Fil A since the Tower Place food court closed years ago. I just assumed it was something like McDonald's has been building at their busier locations, where getting the customers order is apparently the biggest holdup: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1346892,-84.5001258,83m/data=!3m1!1e3