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According to federal highway... <i>“$646.3 million (total cost including preconstruction activities, design, construction, and financing)”</i> Idk if the 400 million number has been spouted off to be purposefully misleading but this sounds like a truer cost.

Could it be working but only in certain areas? I consistently see the signal at E12th change it’s normal pattern to accommodate the healthline. ?

Actually, most cities subsidize NFL stadiums just like we do. Source: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19smEPxvpHQE3pByhDDPbyyA-SMdMjF5Y2uk-g_LkMZs/edit#gid=0 Over the last 20 years, the American public has spent more than $7 billion dollars to build or renovate NFL stadiums, taking on 46 percent of the total costs of those projects. https://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/nfl-new-stadiums-public-funding-how-much-atlanta-san-diego-minnesota-los-angeles-033116 And here is a Plain Dealer article comparing to peer cities. http://www.cleveland.com/articles/11738938/firstenergy_stadium_lease_bad.amp I completely agree that public financing of sports stadiums is a raw deal for taxpayers, and the $$$ return isn’t there, but to say Cleveland struck a particularly bad deal isn’t fair.

Serious question, because people keep bringing up the futility of the team; would it matter if the team was Patriots or Steelers level successful when it comes to this argument?

I think it’s safe to say a roof on the stadium would absolutely make the facility more useful, as the examples you’ve pointed out have shown.

They say they aren’t “opposing” even though they kind of are.

I think the reputation comes solely from Reserve Square (and it’s deserved there), but 1717 is very nice. Hoping for the best.

I don’t know if you knew this, but people with low incomes have a hard time accessing the credit that in most cases would be necessary to go cashless. In the United States of America, the country which this article addresses, people of color are disproportionately likely to be affected by issues of low income. I agree not everything should be about race. But the males of white European descent who control the political process on this continent have had a real problem ignoring race for the better part of 5 centuries (see slavery, innumerable laws and social norms forming a barrier to an integrated society). I would blame that weighty history sliiiiiiightly more than the HALF SENTENCE that addresses race in the article. I will preface this with saying I don’t know any of the statistics with low income access...but going cashless isn’t really a function of access to credit anymore. Debit cards, Venmo, PayPal, phone payment systems, etc. Its more a function of technology.

Does anyone have an idea how deep bedrock generally is downtown? Or specifically in that area of downtown?

I’m very excited for this. The property located at the southeast corner of 25th and Detroit is such a depressing portal into Ohio City.

Like a college-y, drunk and fighting kind of unsafe? I haven’t been down there in a while, although I’m sure I will be once it breaks 40deg.

Apparently there is a specific loophole regarding municipally owned airports “...that the airport was annexed utilizing a special annexation procedure only available to certain international airports provided for in Ohio Revised Code Section 709.19.” http://www.englewoodindependent.com/top-stories/4811/union-opposes-dayton-annexation

It sounds to me like cities can’t directly initiate the process; property owners in the township have to do that. But you can do it on a parcel by parcel basis, as long as they are contiguous with the city/village they are attempting to join. https://www.ohiobar.org/forpublic/resources/lawyoucanuse/pages/lawyoucanuse-463.aspx

In the loosely derived words of George Patton, don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

I thought he was referring to the Abbey Market...in which case, I agree with KJP[/member]

I’ve been hearing about this. Apparently Brancatelli is frustrated that folks are buying homes with the specific intent of operating them as Air BnBs. http://realestate.cleveland.com/realestate-news/2018/03/cleveland_councilman_proposes.html He also talked about it on the Sound of Ideas

I had heard tale that a lot of the Texas plates were due to the shale fracking in Ohio. But it was just anecdotal.

Just so I have some sense of the other side of the argument...are the detractors unhappy because this would increase the number of people parking on the street? And then theoretically taking away current residents’ parking opportunities?

So glad she was able to wield her influence and bypass city government on the one block carve out of her ward for such a great purpose.

I really wish there was a way to like posts on the mobile site ???

Would those complaining accept nothing but a better looking parking lot? The development itself is a little bit insulated from the single family homes as it is...I find the opposition in this case odd (but familiar).

I assume Eton?

I’m wondering what’s going to happen to the recently shuttered Bounce. Seems like a bad time to go out of business...but also a great time to sell the property.

2 weeks to get a drivers license?! Something we all lose very easily along with SS cards and birth certificates. Like it's not inconvenient enough to gather up all your filed away alternate forms of identification, before standing in that obnoxious line at the BMV, right? Now you have to wait weeks for what you're trying to obtain, after going through all of that. It sounds like the process of getting a new debit card. You know what though? There's actually banks that print out debit cards for you right at their branches, when you happen to lose one. PNC Bank does that in Shaker Square (Cleveland.) You walk in and tell them you need a new debit card and walk out soon after, with a debit card that has your name imprinted on it. They have the press or printer or whatever, right there. There's no excuse for that 'waiting weeks' nonsense anymore. I don’t like the inconvenience either, but the fact is that Ohio was one of the last states to hold out from mailing drivers licenses. They give you a price a paper, similar to them printing out your registration papers, to serve as an interim ID until you receive it in the mail. Source: going to college in Indiana where it’s been like that for a long time.

The voters put Michael O'Malley in the prosecutor's office over the competent but less savvy Tim McGinty. In other words they put the Mason machine back in charge of things there, which likely only dodged prison because of BM's Hooveresque files on the other faction. I will be surprised if Budish himself is corrupt but he's a legislator not an executive. The results: predictable. When the charter was overhauled, the exec and especially the prosecutor should not have remained elective, but appointed by the county council. Most city managers are selected that way. I don’t disagree at all that Tim McGinty was a better choice for prosecutor...but it appears that O’Malleys AntiACorruntion unit is the one who initiated this probe. So I’m not sure this take is applicable