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IMO, B and C are just basically fluffed up versions of what we already have. They'll be better than the current design, but not radically so. D is just a normal street with wide sidewalks. And they will seem pretty desolate most of the time. There's just not even daily pedestrian traffic currently to fill them up. A provides tons of new greenspace and would be a signature street for the city. I can imagine it being something people talk about after they visit Cincinnati. "Remember that cool street with the park down the middle?"

The pandemic and the Trump Administration's incompetence slowed the process so the data release has been delayed.

It's interesting, because if you go on Zillow there are a lot of nice 2 br condos for sale in Austin, in nice neighborhoods, for around $200k to $250k. That's pretty cheap. But there's also a lot of houses for sale over $1 million.

State numbers aren't going to be out until September now last I heard.

Note that that is the ACS estimates for 2020. The 2020 decennial Census official numbers for cities won't come out until 2022 now.

For my own benefit I'd like Hamilton to be the first line but pretty sure it's going to be Reading and/or Glenway first.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "either or both a casual and causal factor." And maybe there weren't many vacant units on your block but OTR and Pendleton did have tons of vacant units. I'm not going to go pull the data but the vacancy rates were astronomical.

FWIW, the term gentrification gets misused a lot. If vacant units are renovated and people move into them that's not gentrification. Gentrification is displacement of low-income residents with higher income ones. There actually wasn't all that much displacement in OTR because the population had already cratered.

It's true there were signs of revitalization in the 90s but that all cratered after the riots in 2001. It could've gone either way at that point, and it was looking dire. I'm not saying 3CDC should get all the credit (or blame, if you're so inclined) but it wasn't really a given that OTR was going to take off until the 2010s.

OTR was still losing population between 2000 and 2010.

"invaded" "coeds" Were you at UC in the 1950s?

You should do some reading about Penn. They used to be a fortress and they lowered crime drastically by opening up the campus and engaging with the West Philly community. What you're suggesting is basically the opposite of what any expert in campus planning or policing would suggest.

While I find them annoying sometimes, I doubt they'd ever weigh in on a development in Blue Ash since they don't live anywhere near there. On other other hand, certain Blue Ash politicians love to weigh in on all things Cincinnati.

Can you give us some concrete examples? I think what I, and other people, have said is that we haven't seen this in our actual lives. Everybody I know from Shaker or Lakewood or Parma is much more likely to say Cleveland or Greater Cleveland than NEO. Here in northeast Ohio Back in eighteen-o-three James and Dan Heaton Found the ore that was lining Yellow Creek They built a blast furnace Here along the shore And they made the cannonballs That helped the Union win the war...

I've been to a couple of their shows at Bircus Brewing in Ludlow. It's a fun time actually.

It is sad to me that the Enquirer barely covers it. They're so interested in whatever gossip is going on at City Hall, but they have zero interest in this GIANT corruption scandal at the Statehouse.

So he wasn't banned? Just suspended? Either way, I had ZERO to do with it so I don't know why he targeted me.

What are you talking about? I never even knew you were banned from the Current Events section and I certainly had nothing to do with it. Do I disagree with a lot of things you posted there? Yes. Was I ever shy about letting you know? No. But this is the first I'm learning of you being banned.

I used to commute on the actual commuter train in Delaware. It shares the same ROW as the Northeast Corridor. Sometimes, on my way home from work, I would doze off with my head against the window. Then, BAM, the Acela would fly by waking me up violently. I legit miss that haha.

They should just not do this and save a ton of money. Close Cooper still. There's already an exit at Galbraith, which is two freakin blocks from MIllsdale.

A city council member complimented city workers. What a scandal!

Philadelphia City Hall.

Exactly. I think Luke Feeney would be a great candidate for statewide office. But he doesn't really have name recognition yet. Don't know how you get his name out there more. Maybe a statewide run for something like Auditor or Treasurer.

My worry is that no matter how good he may be personally, his status as big city mayor could bring him down. I think any mayor of Cincinnati, Columbus, or Cleveland is starting from a deficit with people in Appalachia and the rural Northwest. I think Nan Whaley avoids this because people don't think of Dayton as a big scary city.

Hard pass on that though.