1400 Sycamore

HAP contract is a pretty weird animal. Normal anti-discrimination rules apply, but not CMHA's waiting list. An owner with a HAP contract can put your grandma from Florida in his building as long as he can qualify her income wise. That provides great flexibility. And, with flexibility come better tenants. Also, the inspection protocols from REAC are pretty rigorous. Termination early is a pretty complicated topic. The Section 8 Renewal Policy Handbook is the bible on this.

WDC, LLC is Marilyn Scripps.

Divorce is over. Decree available. Pretty interesting reading given the division of assets is set forth. PM me with email address.

New fencing went up around the Short Market lot at Sycamore and Liberty. Could the Fotofocus project the ramping up?

its about the first thing prospective tenants in OTR ask: W/D in the unit?

It is truly hideous. But, then, the Short Market it may replace was the Shell Station without the gas pumps. And, spending most of my awake hours about 200 feet from the location I can appreciate the difference. From a quality of life standpoint, it couldn't be a better neighbor.

Historic is turning loose some properties. This was put up on Loopnet over the weekend. https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/122-128-West-Court-and-920-924-Race/24255530/

You are missing a decimal place. At KMK they have $500/hr people working on this usually a couple at a time. No idea what OTR Adopt is paying. Also, I want to add, that OTR Adopt will lose when the motion is converted to a summary judgment motion from a 12(b)(6) only because they failed to appeal the zoning decision in time. Not what one wants to go to the Court of Appeals on, in my opinion. If OTR would win that super narrow issue in the Court of Appeals it will end up being 2 years. And, the trouble is the financing, not the demolition. The lender won't close until the litigation if done. Again, IMO. Finally, OTR Adopt is pissing away donor money on this, not their own.

I am puzzled by the whole OTR A.D.O.P.T. business model.

Uh, let's see . . . the defendnat filed its motion to dismiss on 9/27, and the plaintiffs have 20 days to respond, but everyone else gets 20 days, and the case is before legal scholar J. Heekin, . . . About a year.

The "personal" lawsuit is not really personal. Its OTR Adopt that spit in the punch bowl. The suit is A 2102984 and it is a zoning appeal. If anyone wants a copy of the complaint, I'll send it.

Usually the difference between 4 and 5 is the elevator/

I apologize. I had seen his work years ago and I remember it as a whole lot better than those cheesy illustrations. Maybe the budget was a free food tab.

I think Effler would be offended.

Bennett Point might just be the most unattractive building ever approved for the OTR or Pendleton Historic Districts. (I'd be interested in "runners up"). It lacks most all of the historic conservation guidelines described in the literature and will be a stain on the neighborhood until it disintegrates and is torn down probably less than 20 years from now. I guess it is all they could do to import some low income units into the neighborhood.

Not to try to start something here, but the Ohio AG is in charge of regulating charitable solicitations. And, they take it pretty seriously.

Opponents of the neighborhood control mechanisms such as SFZ, set backs, minimum lot size, height limits, focus on individual structures and not neighborhood environments. This is more appropriate in socialist or non diverse countries where the economic range is much compressed and homogeneous populations are bound together by peer pressure and heritage. The resultant structures chosen to be built together reflect these values. Not so here. Without restrictions, SF neighborhoods would end up with mega complexes with hundreds of units, aesthetically displeasing. Quite unlike the charming street scenes of Norway and Sweden often depicted as what the Utopian ideals would look like here. Blaming the desire to avoid the unintended consequences of well meaning but short-sighted persons as "racist" is just the last, worst and least effective argument of the losers of this debate. The people voted. With their feet and pocket books. They are all colors, genders, and ethnicities. They want more SFZ, not less.

The yellow/red light delay is so long no one could ever have a T Bone accident from anything other than a blatant red light disregard. When I go through a yellow (which I always do) I am half a block past the light before traffic starts to move the other direction. On the other hand, every weeny will be slamming on their brakes to avoid a ticket creating more whip lash insurance fraud. There is no trade off. Red light cameras are a menace.

There is no "traffic enforcement other than a few speed trap days on a couple of spots around town. Other than that you can ignore traffic control devices with impunity. The CPD isn't writing tickets. Because, when they stop a car for traffic they have to do a mountain of race related paperwork to show it is not a DWB stop. Thank the Collaborative. But, Parking Enforcement" is a profit center. The boys there can write about $1000 per hour in parking tickets without even trying. Maybe one of the biggest non tax revenue streams for the City. And, again, if the disabled parking is on their route, they write it. Other than that, only a complaint will do.

Cincinnati is a "complaint driven city." Until you accept that you will be puzzled and frustrated. I could put up a Ferris Wheel in my front yard and charge admission to unaccompanied minors and operate until someone complains.The City would never bother me. If you want the lights to go on, you have to get a pole number (and a type of pole -wood or metal) and put in a complaint. Then they are Johnny on the Spot. No complaint? It will be dark for years. The opposite of this is NYC where you can complain a thousand times and no one will help. but, if you have a rubber doormat on the sidewalk in front of your place an inspector will come along and write you a $300 ticket.

The good people of Berkley CA who introduced the first single family zoning code were targeting the minorities who never lived there and still don't.

Just because someone can make some more money building 60 units where there were three SF houses or a vacant lot doesn't make it good for the neighborhood or the City to do so. SF zoning has its place and it has already decimated by influence buying from our crooked politicians.

E. Clifton is hot. I'd put money there. That was where the trouble on upper Vine came from historically. In 10 years, E. Clifton will look like Pendleton.

Section 8 pays $765 for a 1 bedroom. There is no possibility of private renovation that works economically and complies with Cincinnati building codes. One might spend $200 per foot to get to a COA. And CMHA does not own properties like that.

The Enquirer ran a critical story on one of my projects a couple of years ago. We had given the residents one year notice as required by HUD, hired and paid for a relocation consultant, and paid moving expenses. The person they interviewed and quoted extensively was the brother of our tenant, living in the unit without our consent and in violation of HUD regulations and selling things probably illegal things from the unit. So much for the Enquirer.