natininja

I don't see why convenience for residents, businesses, and developers in the exurbs is a state, regional, or county priority. "Sorely needed" for what? To support and encourage greenfield development? A "shuffling of the cards" is right. It's just a shuffling -- it doesn't add anything. Except more infrastructure that will age and require maintenance, with the same number of people around to foot the bill than would be if that infrastructure were never added. It's a net-negative investment for the region. Let's be honest: this is a 1200-1500 acre parking lot development, with a sprinkling of mostly single-story commercial buildings. You make it sound like they are building a new metropolis.

I'm disgusted by it, as is much of the world. American labor practices are pretty insane.

The hipster movement is dead.

It's funny because it's true.

Hopefully the Carew thing is a prelude to the office tower at the Banks and another new tower or two. Makes sense to retrofit old office space into residential while making new space that is more appealing. You a) make new residential space, b) fill vacant lots, c) add more attractive office space, and d) avoid having vacancies created by bringing new office space online.

Hey DAAPers: Flying pig loos.

Thanks, that's the point I was trying to make. Presenting unpopular opinions is fine and good, but productive discussion involves finding common ground and using that as a basis for discussions of points of disagreement. I don't know how to eloquently describe it, but kjbrill makes moving targets all over the map, provocatively seeking out disagreements. There's no goal on his end of coming to mutual understanding, which makes all discussion frustrating and pointless. It's a clever troll tactic, honestly, especially when he makes you wonder if he knows he is doing it.

Whatever you want to call it, we hate it for the same reasons you do. If you would appeal to common ground, as such, in your discussions, you might not come off as such a jerk.

Keep on truckin'! Obviously, we don't want people driving trucks around under the influence. But the most common way of failing a drug test is to have used marijuana, which is detectable for up to a month after use. Most, if not all, harder drugs tested for are undetectable within hours of use. Maybe this shortage should be a wake-up call for rationalizing the policy of drug testing.

You are so f&^*ing obtuse in the way you can't, or won't, use this as a common-ground, jumping-off point for conversing with people on this board. There are a lot of points on which you agree with the urbanist mentality which is pervasive in this neck of the woods. But instead of using that to relate to people and make your points, you either overlook or ignore it, talk past it, and play the part of contrarian troll. Can you please acknowledge for once that you recognize we all hate sprawl, and we understand the reasons it's unsustainable and uneconomical (many of which you pointed out in your post)?

^^ Welcome to UO, el double u!

^ That and being auto-oriented lends "successful" suburban development to fill up with cars. Cars take up a lot of space. If you had as many people driving into a city NBD, you'd also have a clusterf. You can't just engineer your way out of that mess; you need multimodal access.

Sorry, I don't mean to be a jerk. I actually assumed everything was kosher until I made those maps. Can you really blame me, though, for being a bit shocked to see Fountain Square wasn't part of the described "Downtown"? At least I went through the bother of making the maps, rather than just running off at the mouth. I apologize for my word choice. I really do appreciate the effort that went into providing the data. And not just the data, but a visualization of it.

I was being sarcastic, folks. The people who made that graphic need to do better research. Makes me wonder what else they got wrong.

We'd have a better shot at dedicating Cincinnati Southern revenue to rail transit.

Rather disheartening to learn Cincinnati's streetcar is still in the preliminary planning stage.

^ I don't think kjbrill is a fan of Austin Landing.

LOL

Buckwild is worse because it actually tempts me to watch. Cultural blasphemy! I can only see so much Honey Boo Boo before I am quite bored.

Cincinnati tract 7 has a population of 3,498 and an area of .28 sqmi., making a density of 12,492/sqmi. So there's a fourth in Cincinnati, assuming the omission of tract 7 was a mistake. Even if the omission of 7 was a mistake, I find these borders pretty silly. Including Mt. Adams and Lower Price Hill, but not the West End or northern Over-the-Rhine, is weird IMO.

Pretty sure jbcmh81 made them up.

These are from 2010 census tracts. The weird hole in Cincinnati's is tract 7. I assumed any "decimals" (e.g. 1078.02 in Cleveland) belonged to the non-decimal variant (in this case 1078). The decimals are usually added when a tract is split. Cincinnati's Downtown is purple (ignore the green pollution): Cleveland's Downtown: Columbus:

I hope it is someone from the Midwest. I would hate to see coastal biases affect funding decisions. Hutchinson, from Texas, might be a good pick. Bonus: She is a Republican.

If people start turning away from it, it will become easier to make purchases there. Congestion is really the main issue. And, economically speaking, that's a very good thing. Even if it's not fun for the customers.

Well...you picked the right thread for that comment. I'll give you that.