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Traffic will be one-way specifically so there is enough room to accommodate parking during construction

West of Clifton they are actually including a parking lane.

To add to the long list of responses (I just find this topic very interesting. Along with the psychology of criminalizing walking), I saw this Twitter thread from a prominent transportation lawyer. If you have time to read all five tweets I would recommend it.

This would obviously require buy in from the City which we currently don’t have; but if I were them I would be lobbying our (soon to be) new congressperson to insert an earmark into a transpo bill to allow the closing of Burke without having to jump through any unnecessary hoops 🤷🏻‍♂️

The city really needs to hire a college age intern to design these flyers. I am so so tired of looking at clip art 😪

Interesting. From this presentation (https://canalwaypartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Towpath-Trailhead-Greening_11.16.20.pdf) in November, they make it sound like the plan is to have a patchwork of parks down here. No mention of adding properties they need to acquire or the viaduct gateway park.

I guess it depends on what you consider a shrinking. 👇🏼 This is the proposed park, and based on that, no.

Is it too much to hope that George will lose money on this a$$hole move?

I believe the Group Plan Commission (https://www.groupplan.org) is in charge of maintaining Public Square. I dont know if they’ve contracted out maintenance to another body like DCA though.

To be fair, the quasi-governmental status of JobsOhio has always been unclear. The operating funds come from state run liquor profits. Do you consider that “tax dollars”? The state auditor thought so. I ask hypothetically but truly it’s a strange arrangement (thx Kasich).

I would really hope that for $2 billion we’d get more than just a renovation of 80% of the airport. That’s a new build price.

June of this year. The city has applied for TRAC funding which is a sort of independent body that selects new build/major transportation projects for funding. If they select the land bridge for funding I’ll buy everyone on UO a drink, because I can’t fathom it happening.

I’ll save anyone from having to attend the meeting and say that the bridge won’t close until July and will not be closed for longer than 12 months.

I am extremely anti-giving space in this city to storage of cars...but until we get the proper investment in making transit convenient and frequent, as well as neighborhoods with amenities nearby (I.e 15- minute cities), it’s hard to expect the average person to change their habits.

There should be an effort to convert the shoreway to a boulevard regardless of the status of the bridge, IMO

Just another illustration of the gap between what local leaders want and what the state wants. As of now the Miller Road interchange is on pace to be fully funded for construction to begin in ‘22. I’d be surprised if anything else on this list gets a dime. Sorry to be the Debbie Downer here

They’ll probably be able to get a few million from a state capital budget...but from TRAC? No way. It’s basically a roadway widening money funnel.

Oh I totally agree with you. What I was trying to get at (but did a terrible job) was that Design Review’s criticism that colorful buildings don’t fit the area’s aesthetic is wrong. And that’s illustrated by the bright colorful building just a few doors down.

You already get that nice pop of color with the yellow building on Old River; these would've just complimented it.

Now that the new Garrett Morgan school has opened, has anyone heard what the plans are for the old Garrett Morgan/William Dean Howells building? I didn’t notice it on the recent map of CMSD buildings up for sale.

This is kind of my point. I wholeheartedly agree that neighbors don’t want a turd. I don’t want a turd either. But Developers/architects are going to get absolutely no actionable direction from that statement.

That’s a real bummer. As a resident who has sat in on a few block club meetings, I was hoping it would take power out of the hands of a handful of outspoken residents...but it doesn’t sound like that’s the case.

I really have the same question. The comment is always that a proposal “doesn’t fit the character of the neighborhood.” What does that mean and what sort of design does fit the character of the neighborhood?

Does anyone know if the review boards take into account resident letters/emails of support for a project? Unfortunately I’m not in the block club who reviewed this but I am a resident of the neighborhood and you think that would be good for something.

I’m definitely concerned with how the new buildings interact with the street and the city surrounding it...but man, if they build floors like this I can’t imagine it helps recruiting at all.