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Are you guys serious? Have you been to Portland? There are hundreds of those exact same signs. Atlanta is putting them up too. When you add a new piece of infrastructure that can catch your tire and throw you to the ground, putting up signage is smart. The city is spending $150K on studies to try to reduce the massive umber of cyclist/track accidents.

Grocery is definitely out. Just to be clear, it was going to be smaller than the OTR Kroger by about 50%. I'm hearing about 225 units. 850 parking spaces. Hoping it gets finalized.

Very cool! Also I think when you add the walnut then you'll be able to add the elm & 12th turn. I think they'll be pouring that any day now.

^ Correct. Cranley is very smart. There are a number of reasons why this budget isn't structurally balanced, but by not coming out right out of the gates and saying it's either layoffs or this unstructurally balanced budget (as dohoney/mallory would say) you are able to tailor the media's coverage of your budget. They aren't gonna read it. All they do is look for layoffs and pool closures. Not other random $ movements to pass a budget. Overall, it's not a bad budget. It's a bland budget, but it's smart in how it hides its issues. Dohoney/Mallory could have learned from how Cranley is pitching this. It would have helped roxanne & the progressive dems.

John, is there and chance that would be considered? The current streetcar construction includes the spurs at elder & findlay..

The grant recipient is actually SORTA. The City & they have an agreement from a few years ago to operate the streetcar.

Can all this (good) Wasson way talk be moved to an appropriate thread?

^ Thank you. I'd written a whole response to that "over priced" quote but it was too angry to post.

Festival streets and streetcars don't go well together. If the plan had been to have both directions on Short vine that would be one thing- but every image I've ever seen showed one direction on Jefferson and one direction on Vine. I've heard Uptown wants to have it closed every friday night in the fall and spring. That's a lot of streetcar not operating if it's on Vine.

A new 25 unit apartment project is being planned across the street north on Knowlton. So we'll have Gantry, American can and this new smaller project all adjacent to each other. Very exciting for Northside. When I get more details ill pass them on. But the new project is on several vacant lots- roughly 1518 Knowlton.

The three buildings in the photo above will be torn down. Also, Amy Murray had the Univserity Club REMOVED from the historic district, not added.

They showed photos of their other properties. I would consider it, nice quality- not the excellent finishes in new OTR development and not the condo quality apartments some people are building, but still nice and much better than the American Can building, which has pretty crappy finishes. Maybe a bit nicer than the Emery finishes. Also, he made it clear parking would cost extra but didn't say how much. I think as they get closer to leasing they may raise the price per square foot to around $1.25-$1.30.

Seriously?

At this point I think no one is considering the Streetcar for Short Vine. Rather, keeping the entire streetcar on Jefferson. I'm fine with that, as the streetcar would move even more slowly on Shortvine and separating the north and south tracks by 580 feet is a bit silly. Downtown they're separated by about 490 feet, which is really around the maximum you would want.

I was there last night. Didn't snap a picture of the proposal but should have. He takes away .44 acres of the 2.3 acre green space for a two level parking garage. It's a great plan, but a few crazy people prevented a vote in support of the concept. The rents they announced were very reasonable. I actually think they are under pricing compared to what people are paying in OTR nowadays. basically just about $1.10 per square foot. Core also proposed: Putting a deed restriction on the green space preserving it as green space forever (some in the community STILL weren't even happy about that- they wanted it to be entirely given away for free to the park board) Selling it to the City for the City's appraised value of $500k Putting in a $50K matching grant for maintenance or upgrades to the green space. Planting 4 trees for every 1 large tree they tear down and 2 trees for every small tree they tear down as part of building the parking deck. Rehabbing the building to Dept of Interior Historic landmark standards.

The city definitely doesn't have money for a garage across the street - they are stretching to even redo the seventh st garage. So make a deal w/ the developer to build a garage there. They already want to build a garage anyway. If you spent $1.3 million on a building & lot, and were going to invest another $20-30 million rehabbing it, why would you then take your money to build a public garage on city land that you wouldn't have 100% control over? Or if you did have 100% control over, you realize Merchants of Main and every other Main Street business would be furious. There's no indication the city is gonna build a garage or give him the land to build his own garage. Sadly, we almost all still have cars... And those same Pendleton residents against the field having parking would be FURIOUS if 160 cars started parking on 14th & Broadway.

F that. Wait until a developer wants to do right by the building & land. Wrong. That building and lawn are his private property. He bought it- anyone could have bought it but no one will. Hell- he was THE ONLY BIDDER AND PAID ONLY $1.3 million for the whole thing. That shows how 95% of developers didn't even want the building and field for that cheap price. The parking lots across the street costs more than that. Some people don't realize that guy is a savior to a crumbling building. Has anyone looked at it lately? It's in horrible shape- some Pendleton residents would rather have it sit empty for 10 years than to lose a small portion of a field that isn't historic, and that they don't own.

The hotel was never going to happen. I had been saying for months it was a scam- the guy putting it together was a bit looney. He was promising to program the theater every weekend? No way. He said there'd be a 24 hour fitness and a Hard Rock Cafe, plus he said he'd fix and use the two pools in the 5th floor that haven't had water in them since the 1960's. I hope Pendleton residents realize they have a great opportunity with this apartment building. The city parking lot behind Main Street is way too small and way too full for apartment residents. 160 apartments? That lot is only about 160 spaces and is probably 80%-90% full on week days. The lots to the south are privately owned. A lot of residents dont realize, that entire field was a black asphalt parking lot until the 1970's. before the asphalt it was once a city block that was demolished. It's a piece of privately owned land, having only 1/3 of it disappear so that the building can be fully rehabbed and filled is worth the loss of some green space. Also, Ziegler Park is going to receive a great multi million dollar renovation including a small expansion adding more green space. Pendleton would be wise to accept the loss of a small section of that field to ensure a great asset is renovated.

Who is doing this project? ie. who is sending out the updates about it? The private property owner? DCI?

So it's basically the same place that got shut down for nudity, prostitution, drugs, etc. it just has a new, odd name. Why do you say that? Is it the same owners? It doesn't seem like it. Are you implying all gay-friendly bars have nudity, prostitution, drugs, etc.?

Thanks that was very insightful. Back to the conversation at hand: The letter sent to the judge by Ono said an example needed to be made that preying on UC students would get you a stern sentence. Giving a stern sentence is fine, but I doubt any thug sees this as an example. I doubt many of them think of the consequences of jumping someone, etc.

I've been told they plan a different route. COAST is going to begin a charter amendment for recalls. then they plan to basically collect signatures to recall everyone they disagree with in special elections that have even smaller turnout.

Something tells me criminals, especially 20 something punk kids like those guys, don't care about sentences. they operate under the impression, I just won't get caught- not, damn if i get caught i could go to jail for 11 years. It's "good" in the sense that stabbing someone because they didn't give you your cell phone makes these guys sound like insane animals and should be locked up, but it doesn't mean that the next drugged out violent youth is going to rethink his actions because some other guy got 11 years.

Definitely mid to late 90's. i would say 95-97. This is what cars/street signs looked like in the 1970's.

Flynn is an idiot.