jonoh81

The Census is estimating a domestic loss for the metro of 1,602 2020-2023, but I was really talking about Columbus itself. While we don't have the latest 2023 number for the city alone, it's showing Franklin County losing almost 37,000 domestically over the same period, including almost 12,000 between 2022-2023, almost 2x that of Cleveland. I'm going to continue to call BS on that.

Yeah, I'm going to have a problem with numbers that have Youngstown raking in domestic migration while Columbus loses almost 12,000.

He can, so long as blue voters show up. They were MIA in 2022 which allowed Vance to win.

That's exactly who I was thinking of.

Look at all the shade it's causing in the park!

So I'm curious why they wouldn't just partner with someone who had the ability to get it done. Sell that lot and get something built.

Maybe, but things still got built during Covid elsewhere around Columbus, and construction has definitely picked up to more normal levels since 2020. I don't know what Easton's financial situation is, but it couldn't be that good if they weren't able to finish a single residential building already started.

One question I have is how this will be built on the Broad Street bridge and that part of Broad in general. I can't see them doing much or any sort of road diet on that section with the planned BRT line, so how are they going to accomodate this? Just use the existing sidewalks?

It would be great to see them gradually extending this into other neighborhoods as time goes on, as the article suggested, and with connections to a growing network of dedicated bike lanes across the city. I kind of wish some of the street sections being used would be fully pedestrianized, like Gay. I know the logistics of that are a bit different because of business-related deliveries and such, but there are plenty of much bigger, more traffic-clogged cities who have managed to do this. Still, it's a huge improvement to what's there now.

No decisions have been made about exact routes or the type of transit that could be utilized. I mean, come on, who are they trying to kid here? It's going to be a standard bus. I also like the quotes praising COTA leadership, leadership that has continuously ensured that Columbus is the only major city in America without any transit except for the bus and whose last director neither lived in Columbus nor ever actually used the system they oversaw.

In 2023, new building permits in the Columbus metro were 53.41% multi-family and 46.59% single-family. 5 units or more made up 94.84% of all multi-family units. 6,110 multi-family unit permits were issued, 5795 of them being 5+ unit.

I'd rather Columbus have 2 million new immigrants than one of these people. Regarding the rumored project, it's hard to imagine they would make such a huge project and limit it to only have affordable housing, so that aspect doesn't sound entirely realistic. I could see a huge mixed-use development, though.

Would be amazing to have a 2-mile elevated trail around Downtown, but I'm leaning more towards a Cultural Trail clone as others mentioned.

If this is what is planned, I wonder if it would require any kind of road diets to accomodate it so that sidewalks can remain unaffected.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2024/02/19/local-plans-for-big-bucks-from-state-come-with-few-details/72584984007/ Columbus' proposed share of at least a portion of the state's "Super Duper Fund" of leftover federal COVID-19 emergency dollars includes $10 million for a new Downtown project called the "Columbus Capital Line." But Cole did say that the project envisions "a 2-mile loop, exclusive to pedestrian and bike traffic," that would be "dotted with public art and other experiences." Anyone have any insight into what exactly this is? If it's just a bike/pedestrian trail of sorts, I'm struggling to envision where it would go or how it would be built. It doesn't sound like it would be on the actual roadways, since on-street paths normally aren't designed for pedestrians, and it would be difficult to incorporate art and "experiences" from a street-based trail. So I'm curious to know the form and place this would take.

I did. I was specifically talking about the metro graph. That said, the South's time of growth, IMO, will be limited. It's been benefitting from an aging population retiring, as well as what was cheaper COL. But COL has skyrocketed, and climate change will increasingly make parts of the South unbearable. All booms end, and the factors leading to the South's end are already here.

4 of the 7, Las Vegas is not Southern. It's also selection bias. It's not a comprehensive list of the largest cities or metros, just some of the largest with many absenses for some reason. Also, the South also had the largest group of cities on this list of the 4 main regions with losses. Why is that not equally notable? And no mention of Columbus at all.

I like how the narrative is that Southern metros all performed well and everywhere else did poorly... and then you look at the numbers and see it was a lot more mixed than that. Also interesting to note how they show most of these metros slowing down in the 4th quarter, but Columbus maintained its rate.

This is like The Nicholas 2: Facade Boogaloo.

Columbus leaders: "We desperately need to address the housing shortage with more construction!" Also Columbus leaders: "Not like that!"

The city needs the money to make its streets less safe for pedestrians and bicyclists.

Yes, I wrote an article about that project and was less than kind about the incredible waste of the site it was. They were not pleased at all. Good times.

You're still doing it. I have no idea why you keep acting like actual Ohio representatives being recorded stating a goal on trans care is equivalent to an anonymous, random Reddit post. Oh wait, yes I do. At least we all know where you stand.

You just keep repeating the same talking points. I can't believe I gave you such an easy layup where you could just admit that there were, in fact, members of Republican leadership who do want to go after adult gender-affirming care, and to act like an empathetic human being just once and unequivocally state how you don't support that. You couldn't do it. Instead, you turned this into another long-winded defense and projection about how everyone else is just biased and delusional about Republicans despite them repeatedly showing us exactly who they are on this and endless other issues. How dare any of us question the sincerity of Republicans on LGBTQ+ issues.

Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joqdr9jqI6g