OCtoCincy

<b>NO MORE CARS</b>

Has everyone bought a T shirt? Seriously, it adds up & will help make sure the system is a success.

The problem is the drive part.

I will never understand how people say it's impossible to live in OTR, yet homes 2 blocks away in the west end sit on the market for under $200K.

They never reached out to Cincy. The City was not on their list for consideration.

I love that Adriatico's doesn't make every single one of their customers subsidize free parking by paying for spaces in an adjacent lot. Just walk. Or park at a meter a block away. Or take an Uber. Or take the bus.

Recalls outside of a MASSIVE scandal are a horrible idea. They often turn previously neutral people into supporters of the person being recalled. You need a ton of money and press (in your favor) and a very week candidate (who can't fight back well) and a real scandal that is seriously affecting people. One of the only successful recalls in modern times was that of Governor Gray Davis. The Recall was championed by Arnold Schwarzenegger who then became governor. And the scandal was the "energy crisis" which was energy providers mad at regulations and browning out service to the utilities and public (simplifying). It was all blamed on a fairly weak and feeble governor and led by a movie star. Recalling Cranley would be closer to recalling Scott Walker. Which made him stronger than ever. Raise money for current council members you like, plan to donate to mayoral challengers, etc. get active in politics and your community today. Don't lead a recall effort unless a real scandal comes out (clear abuse of power, etc.). My 2 cents.

What is the latest with their property? Who owns it

Greater Cincinnati needed an urban Growth Boundary 20 years ago. Discuss.

I just don't think you can build $100K nice new construction anywhere without massive subsidies. It's just not reasonable for a developer to do. Old 1950's homes in California go for $600K+. We are so spoiled here with the fact that you can buy an old but still nice house for under $150K, but then we get upset when we can't buy nice new houses for that same price. The average US new construction home costs $295K to complete. Now, it's also 2500 sqft because that's what developers keep building. But cutting that down by 1000 sqft doesn't equally cut the price. There's still one kitchen, there's still one whole lot of things. Can you renovate some homes for less than $250K, of course! But no one is building market rate single family homes in the dead center core of our City for less than $225K without subsidy. The math just doesn't make sense.

I'm being told suburbs.

Not a single housing unit is being demolished. Who are you citing? Any reputable sources? This is getting silly. It's 22 houses on vacant land. Renovation of one vacant building into 8 apartments. Removal of the basketball courts. And the community garden stays in their fenced and leased area. They are currently illegally using the vacant city land, so they will have to stop doing that illegal activity and return to only using the private land they have a lease for.

Rothenberg added basketball hoops when it opened that had never existed there. They are in the playground area and are open to the public.

I was just in Portland. The Mayor said they are also being flooded with startups leaving SF because prices are too high. Now if only Cincinnati could get some of those people way out here...

Denver Infill has a great map that is what you are describing. If you haven't checked out their website it's pretty great. Similar to UrbanCincy. Btw, Denver's Urban Core has 17 cranes up right now. 17,

If you put $80K into that house you'd have a livable, not fancy, but pretty decent home in an area with EXCELLENT access (CP Bikeway, streetcar 7 min walk, multiple bus lines on CP, etc.)

I'm not sure how it is in Cleveland, but 90% of cabs in Cincinnati don't accept credit card. or if they do, it's on one of those old school carbon copy swipers, which makes it really easy for CC theft. Also, they will often say, I can just drive you to an ATM, which is very shady. So, since I've never had a cabby in Cincinnati accept a credit card, I exclusively use Lyft and Uber.

Someone said the ex-Im bank is right wing & I have to correct that. It's not. The ex-I'm bank is one of those issues (like the Fed) which is a pro corporatist, pro corporate welfare authoritarian center to center-right idea. A whole lot of democrats support it and always have. Things like the bailout, TARP, the fed & the ex-I'm bank all go in the same category of pro-big government support of big business The Ex-Im bank has two enemies. The far right libertarian leaning tea party type folks, and the far left populist anti-corporate greed folks. This is a perfect example of why politics should be looked at on an xy axis. Authoritarian | | | Liberal --------------------- Conservative | | | Libertarian So back to Cincy...

I've seen a couple instances of similar things, including an OTR resident demanding that Cincinnati Bell have a location to turn in a cable box downtown. She repeatedly said (on twitter) "no, it HAS to be in 45202". Frankly, I find that attitude ridiculous. Living in downtown/OTR surely allows for a car-lite lifestyle, but it's simply unreasonable to expect to not have to drive or take the bus anywhere. Can you imagine the outrage someone from West Chester would receive if they got on Twitter and demanded that Park and Vine open a location there because they refuse to drive down to OTR? Ridiculous. Cincinnati doesn't have a rail network, and the bus system is barely usable outside of the basin and maybe Northside. It's great that the walkability of the basin allows for a pretty localized life, but if you want to participate regionally, driving is going to be part of the equation most of the time. I don't think that's a good comparison. A retail outlet of a chain that has multiple locations is very different from a one in the nation hippie green general store. Also, West Chester does have their own Cincinnati Bell store... and Downtown did but they just closed it and told downtown people to drive to the suburbs.

DO NOT hire that management company btw. Message me offline for more info.

Supposedly someone he walked past asked to take a photo with him and took a photo with him that is being called this selfie.

That is exactly what this tunnel talk is. It's people saying "I think it should go here"

To be fair, past proposals of putting lines on a map has also involved 99% of those projects failing, with this streetcar being the only exception. Focusing on a tunnel has already lost a large number of supporters. I've had many people tell me "this tunnel talk is scaring away the people you need". This is a simple case of you can't see the forest through the trees. People who want a second phase should get the uptown community to understand what a streetcar through uptown will be like. How it can help them, etc. Then, as I said, when they are banging down the doors demanding it (LTE's weekly from different stakeholders in uptown all calling for a connection, etc.). THEN you say, ok, here's how we do it. Until there are a dozen LTE's saying, now is the time for an uptown streetcar, etc. (not talking about tunnels, just talking about connectivity and mobility), I don't believe it helps anyone to battle over this street vs. this tunnel.

Looks amazing!

This is the wrong way to go about this & leads to VERY easy criticism. No one cared HOW the MLK bridge is designed, what roads were moved, widened etc. No one cares how wide or what the Brent Spence Bridge is gonna look like. Half the people calling for a new bridge don't even know that the old bridge still stays. They just know they want a new bridge and so does everyone else. The plan for MLK was just to say "we need an MLK exit!! We need an MLK exit!" then when you get everyone on board saying yup, it makes sense to have an exit at MLK, it makes sense, only weird people don't agree. THEN you say, ok, here's how you get it and everyone goes, well if that's how we get it then great. Starting backwards, by debating how to get up the hill is the wrong tactic. Start by getting everyone in uptown on board with having a streetcar. Once every group is saying we want it, we want it, we want it- then you say: ok, here's how we do it. Starting by arguing vehemently on the tunnel is just going to turn people off and scare them away. Groups should do community meetings in Corryville with businesses. Presentations at UC, etc. Everything else just comes across as infighting and a distraction and easy criticism.