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Anyone who claims Montgomery Inn is great shouldn't be trusted.

I can't lie, it's been fun watching the NIMBY meltdown over this project. People can't seem to decide if they're going to be overpriced and force people out of their homes or introduce the "section 8 element" to Hyde Park

This is dumber than the big ping-pong paddle in Detroit-Shoreway.

I expected more teens cruising around in hot rods and eating at Mel's in this thread.

That'll be a nice addition. I'd love for Columbus to start seeing more developments in the 150-200 foot range.

This whole project was stupid, but you also have to question why the Smart City people even selected Columbus' proposal in the first place. Yelling "Self-driving cars!" and "tech!" causes smart people to make stupid decisions.

The continual lack of hometown loyalty from Ohio-bred companies (P&G and Kroger being the big exceptions) makes me so sick. If Bentonville can hold onto Wal-Mart, there should be no reason why the home of the best amusement park in the country and founding location of CF can't keep them on the peninsula. If I was going to be an executive for an amusement park company, I'd much prefer having Cedar Point in my backyard than Carowinds. Charlotte is the most overrated city in the New South by a long shot.

I didn’t take any photos, but downtown Dayton is in the process of upgrading all of its crosswalks to high-visibility zebra crossings.

Sacra Via Street in Marietta was built along a Native American earthworks: There is a large archeological park comprised of an Indian village just south of Dayton: And of course there are many traces of mound-builder culture that are now built into the urban fabric of southern Ohio:

Man, and that's just in the five years since I moved away. Still in awe how much OTR has changed since even 2011 when I moved to Cincinnati the first time. Have there been any changes on Green Street lately? Architecturally it's one of my favorite streets north of Liberty, but it's always felt super sketchy.

Has anyone seen any form letters or anything floating around that I can send to my senator and representative? I want to voice my complaint over this but I don't really know what to eloquently send (even though I'm sure I'll just get a generic response from a staffer anyway).

What the heck is going on with Elyria? Most other small cities in Ohio have managed to at least partially revive their downtowns in the recent years; look at Hamilton and Middletown in deep-red Butler County, or even Springfield which has finally stopped tearing down its downtown (for the most part). Even Lorain seems to be making smarter decisions than Elyria at the moment. Maybe city leaders need to stop taking advice from the townies who hang out at that depressing coffee shop that the New York Times visits every four years for "election coverage".

Nothing says "luxury" quite like a 10-pound bag of Lay's and a 50-pack of Kleenex.

"Spontaneous exercise" is just being active unintentionally. In an urban area, you're more likely to naturally get your 10,000 daily steps just doing your daily routine than you would out in nowheresville. Sure you might have a lot of open space, but you're not walking anywhere and actually have to plan exercise into your daily routine as opposed to it just happening on its own.

I like the idea of an E 9th station, but I'd rather eliminate the other two stations and run a new light rail line up Euclid or Carnegie to University Circle than just adding a bunch of random new Red Line stations and making the trip to UC even longer.

I imagine that life today in most rural areas isn't that much different from life for the urban poor - no jobs, no healthy food, no hospitals or services. Only Walmart to shop at. And rural areas have the added disadvantage of needing a car to get everywhere, which cuts down on opportunities for spontaneous exercise.

Here's an unusual one... and yes, good old Dayton comes in at #8... 2021’s Horniest Cities in America After a year of pandemic isolation, we’re all a little starved for human touch and affection — in other words, we’re horny. But some cities are more turned on than others. LawnStarter ranked the Horniest Cities in America by comparing the 200 biggest cities based on nine key indicators of sexual arousal. Among the factors we looked at with our eyes wide shut: the share of the single population, Google search interest in adult content, and sex-toy sales. More below: https://www.lawnstarter.com/blog/studies/horniest-cities/

All of the wood furniture in the hotel was made by the Amish up in Millersburg. A cool little Ohio connection.

I'm sure @ColDayManhas done it in 3 hours.

Yeah I was also downtown on Saturday and the streetcar was fairly busy.

The saga continues... have these people never been to Kettering before to see that having apartments everywhere doesn't magically make traffic terrible? Springboro residents reiterate density, traffic concerns at proposed Easton Farm project Springboro residents said they appreciated the concessions made by the developers of the proposed Easton Farm project to address various concerns, but density and traffic continued to be major concerns. https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/springboro-residents-reiterate-density-traffic-concerns-at-proposed-easton-farm-project/77TULYE7RJGKLBICPMIJUMRNZQ/

It's amazing how suburbanites haven't figured out that 1) schools are the primary reason their homes are worth so much and 2) suburbs are a Ponzi scheme that require expansion if you want to keep those nice school districts and relatively low taxes.

I saw that they resubmitted at 3 stories instead of 4 to appease the NIMBYs. NIMBYs are dumb, but hopefully that's enough to get this project built now.

Another big road diet coming to Dayton... Remake of large stretch of North Main gets boost from state funding Dayton has been awarded more than $4.7 million in state funding to help remake a large section of North Main Street that residents have complained about for years. The funds will help put North Main Street on a “road diet” — likely shrinking the roadway from four lanes to three, which officials and residents hope will reduce speeding and traffic crashes. The road would have one lane in each direction and a center turn lane. Currently, the road has two lanes heading in each direction, north and south. More below: https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/remake-of-large-stretch-of-north-main-gets-boost-from-state-funding/ZI2BETHL6BBX3HZJZEVM6E2AQE/

...Excuse me, what now? Springfield deemed 5th hottest housing market in the country by USA Today The Springfield area is the fifth hottest housing market in the country, according to USA Today. The national publication released a list of what it deemed as the top 20 housing markets in the United States based on a number of housing trends. Springfield came in at number 5 and bested other Ohio cities on the list such as Columbus, which came in at number 19, and Akron, which was last on the list. More below: https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/springfield-deemed-5th-hottest-housing-market-in-the-country-by-usa-today/D2KKSLTY3VFI5AF6RVRGZBQSOE/?fbclid=IwAR0GOUHOE0lLqJxRDdAam3lNf1YUUftj8nIkj8gV-5edf91b3blNwZCxc6w