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Robuu

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  1. I think that's true of them all except Rhinegeist. I think Rhinegeist knows what they're doing in the macro-craft game. Of course, they could make a bad move and try to expand too quickly, but so far they've been smart. And they do what they do well, making high-quality, mass-appeal beer with a slick brand that stands out on the shelves.
  2. It sounds like an attempt to make it difficult to change street configurations, generally. Which in this day and age usually means accommodating pedestrians, bikes, and transit.
  3. North of Calhoun can be Upper Calhoun, abbreviated UC.
  4. I went to 9Giant recently and was pretty impressed with their beer. They also have a good food menu. P-Ridge has some nice stuff going on, in addition to the mainstays like Everybody's Records and Pleasant Ridge Chili.
  5. "I get threatened with rape almost daily." At best, she is greatly exaggerating her experiences. At worst, she's lying through her Instamouth.
  6. Robuu replied to taestell's post in a topic in Urbanbar
    Here was the event : https://www.facebook.com/ColonelVawterDay/ 15 September. Mark your calendars, y'all, UrbanOhio is going on a field trip.
  7. Robuu replied to taestell's post in a topic in Urbanbar
    #PeakAmerica ;D There's even a stage with a band! And the seats to watch them play are across the street. ;D ;D
  8. I’m sure you weren’t ignored; the other Clevelanders were too upset to reply;) Now we know how to go for the low-blow when city vs. city fights break out!
  9. ^ Reasons (without bothering to read the article): 1. Growing from a small base, so smaller numbers make for greater percentages vs. larger airports. 2. Base number was made artificially low by Delta's stranglehold, from around the time of the Northwest merger to a couple years ago. Delta was still actively undercutting competitors while tenaciously shrinking operations. Travelers went to other airports in the region. 3. A corrupt airport board was jettisoned. Things would have turned around anyway, though, since Delta eased its grip. Related to number two, now Dayton's airport is on the skids. It's losing the Cincy passengers who were choosing DAY over CVG, as well as losing flights/airlines to CVG (most obviously Southwest).
  10. Robuu replied to taestell's post in a topic in Urbanbar
    #PeakAmerica ;D
  11. Weird how the Cincy sites are all suburban, while Dayton has one in the Oregon District and Cbus has one in the Arena District.
  12. Y'know, I can't think of anywhere specific, and I might just be imagining I have seen them in Dayton stores since I've seen them at Carillon. I usually just get them from butchers in Cincy. The Germanfest Picnic website says they will have metts: http://www.daytongermanclub.org/?q=german-picnic Ok, I just spent too long searching the internet for butchers and such in Dayton that have them. This is such a weird phenomenon, because people who know what they are (mostly native Cincinnatians, I guess) think it is a typical German style of sausage, like Bratwurst, that you could find in a lot of different places, if not virtually everywhere. But even just up the road in Dayton there is hardly a trace of them.
  13. I think we've established pretty well that all measures are flawed. Walk Score has the problem of making a ton of inadequate assumptions, due to the complexity of the notion of walkability, including the difficulty of quantifying and collecting information about things such as the nature of businesses or urban design features. But it's still an objective measure, in the sense that the algorithm treats every place to which it is applied equally. And in a lot of cases, the comparative numbers agree with my and others' subjective and objective experience of places. Particularly in the case of comparing Ohio cities and neighborhoods, walk score seems to do a better job of measuring urbanity and walkability than using population density as a proxy for the same -- the proxy relationship which is an implicit assumption in your analysis and one with which a lot of people here disagree. Rather than explaining why Walk Score has problems, which I don't think anyone would disagree with, why don't you look up each of the 3 C's and check out the neighborhood lists, then tell us which scores by comparison to each other seem blatantly wrong. If you can find a sufficient number, you might convince some or all of us that the metric is discredited in the discussion at hand.
  14. ^ Usually clusters like that indicate retaliations. ^^ It's pretty weird how people accept throwing a nearly infinite amount of money at police personnel, but jail overcrowding just elicits a shrug. You'd think, with the way Downtown & Cincinnati are no longer the gravitational population center of the county, people would be calling for a more centrally located jail (/s).
  15. Hot metts are just mett(wurst)s that have extra hot chili spices; you can get them hot or not (or sometimes extra hot, etc.). And metts are easily the most accessible of the Cincy foods to foreigners (of the Republic of Cincinnati). Chili and goetta are pretty weird. Goetta less so to people familiar with scrapple. I didn't realize metts were a Cincinnati thing until I tried finding them in New Jersey (including at a German butcher). Then I started googling them, and realizing that while the word mettwurst is used in other places, I couldn't find it being used for the same thing as in Cincy. German mettwurst is (at least usually) a spreadable sausage. The Netherlands has metworst, which is more like the German kind. I was trying to find metts at a Kroger in Columbus for my buddy's Memorial Day barbecue, but had no luck. Not sure if it was the Kroger or that you can't find them in Columbus. I see them around in Dayton, including at the Carillon Brewing Co.
  16. I think the walk scores are illuminating to this conversation. You can have a density of residents over a large area, but if there aren't many businesses in that area, what is the point? The primary reason urbanists like density is it enables walkable neighborhoods. Maybe what's going on here is that the older C's have a greater mix of uses. Anecdotally, that makes sense from what I have seen of Columbus; that the retail/commercial districts are more segregated from residential districts (versus Cleveland/Cincinnati). You also see that in edale's streetviews. In edale's more-urban examples, you see a mix of uses. In the others, you don't.
  17. Why do the developer gotta be a dude, smh (Just messing with you :P)
  18. There are also restrooms in the Nature Center and at the picnic area down by Clifton Ave. http://www.cincinnatiparks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Burnet-Map-11x17.pdf
  19. State capital doesn't seem to do it, and large uni doesn't seem to do it, but when you add them together it seems like a powerful combo.
  20. The Census's ACS (American Community Survey -- which is the only non-census-year survey they do) estimates go as low as the Block Group level (which is between Block and Tract). The caveat is that for areas with populations below (IIRC) 60k, the data is only available in a sort of "rolling sample" type of estimation (I don't know the proper term, but trying to invoke intuitions about "rolling averages"). So for small levels like Tracts or Block Groups, you'll be looking at samples over a 5-year period. The 2017 numbers aren't out for that yet, so if you wanted to look at Census Tract data, the most recent would be from the 2012-2016 5-year ACS. You can tinker with this website. The pop-up menus from the left allow you to apply filters. To filter data by year, go to Topics>Dataset>[Pick the dataset(s) with the year you want in its name] https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/searchresults.xhtml
  21. They could go either way, a lot or a little, or not move at all. They're the best guess at the moment, so the only proper way to use them is to take them at face value. The 2020 census is the one that really matters, though.
  22. Here is some of the data. If you look through subsequent posts, I added more: https://www.urbanohio.com/forum/index.php/topic,10856.msg824352.html#msg824352
  23. Since the 2000 census, the state population has grown by ~305,000. The Columbus metro area alone has grown by well over 500,000 in that same time. I think it was in this thread that I went over the numbers, but Columbus only has a positive domestic migration due to in-migration from the rest of Ohio. Then you have births and foreign migration to boost that a bit, but the relationship with Ohio is clear: Columbus's gain is the rest of the state's loss.
  24. In this context (population trends), Columbus has been pulling people from the rest of Ohio over the last 20 years. Though one could argue that if those people weren't able to go to Columbus, they may have instead moved out of state. Hard to prove or disprove a counterfactual.