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Mason needs a zoning overhaul. It's mostly built out. Surrounding communities are still growing.

Guys, he's gotta be doing a bit.

Not true. About 22% of West Virginians and 11% of Kentuckians live in Ohio border counties. There's some density along the Ohio River, but the densest places in WV are Charleston and the Clarksburg to Morgantown corridor. For Kentucky, the Ohio River adjacent counties are overshadowed by Louisville and Lexington. Kenton and Boone Counties do have some population density though. Those two make up about 60% of Kentuckians living on the Ohio border.

A lot of what has been said by the opposition has been very clearly rooted in racism and classism.

The city and county have not made the lot available for development until now. I'm quite sure there'll be a lot of private sector interest in developing it when they put out an RFP. I agree we should skip the study and just move forward. To be clear though, it is not half a billion. You're off by orders of magnitude.

Taste of Cincy and Oktoberfest aren't even at the Banks. There's plenty of demand to live down there. The apartment buildings that exist are full and command high rents. Some people want to live in the middle of the action.

You say these outlandish things repeatedly and every time multiple people call them out as ridiculous. Do you think everyone else is just dumb? Or have you ever had any self reflection about these opinions and thought maybe the fact that everyone disagrees with me means I am the one who is wrong?

Nah. Top groups are probably India, Mexico, and China. A bunch of others like Guatemala, Bhutan, and Haiti are probably higher than Ukraine too.

There's plenty of demand to go around. If the county and city got out of the way the Banks would already be developed. Look at what is happening at the IRS site.

I think this is true and worthwhile but it won't lead to more kids. We need international migration to grow.

I actually think moving agencies out of DC was a bad idea under Biden and I still think that. It would definitely save some money but it would create new inefficiencies and, most importantly, it would make it much harder to recruit good talent to government roles. No one wants to live in Wichita. That said, if it's going to happen, I hope Ohio can gobble up a few, including NASA.

If this same development was proposed in Bond Hill, I, and I suspect many on this forum, would joyfully support it. And many of us have been enthusiastic supporters of new development in College Hill, Walnut Hills, Mt. Auburn, etc. So it feels like this take is coming from a place of "I made up a guy to be mad at" more than it is coming from reality.

Some really shaky assumptions here.