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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.

Like clockwork. At this point I have to assume it's a bit.

This is just delusion. I remember visiting friends at UC in the 2000s and the pedestrian activity dying off just a couple blocks from campus. Now there are people walking everywhere. The area is so much more walkable. I feel like you haven't actually spoken to a college student in years.

I know multiple young professionals in their 20s who live near UC. We are far from being saturated with housing.

Out of all the buildings that are at least 350 feet tall in Ohio, here's the breakdown: Cleveland - 18 Columbus - 14 Cincinnati - 12 Toledo - 3 Dayton - 2 400 feet or taller: Cleveland - 11 Columbus - 10 Cincinnati - 7 Toledo - 2 Dayton - 1 450 or taller: Columbus - 8 Cleveland - 6 Cincinnati - 4 500+ Columbus - 5 Cleveland - 5 Cincinnati - 2 Clearly Cincinnati could use a few more 500+ footers.

I drive it often. It's been fine.

With better marketing and real frequencies between uptown and downtown (5 to 10 min headways) metro plus would be very successful in serving the urban core but you still wouldn't see high ridership past Norwood. That area is just too auto centric.

That's a good story, except West Price Hill activists were some of the loudest opponents of connected communities. They showed up to every meeting and screamed about the degradation of their neighborhood.

Well technically Northside is on the west side and PLK tried to develop there and were run off by the extremists. I don't see why the story would be any different in Westwood or Price Hill.

Downtown is going to be bumpin when all those residential towers are full of people.

People people has been getting small sections painted over the past couple of years and will continue. It'll eventually be all painted. But it's going to take awhile.