DEPACincy

I walk 7th every day, morning and evening. This project has removed a lane for months now and there has been zero additional congestion. It is free flowing most of the time and the rush hour peak is business as usual. Could definitely use a road diet.

Right. It's literal only purpose would be to open up land for new development.

Sorry. I didn't see your response to this back in December. The 800 per square mile rule is at the county level of analysis. So Boone County is at 349 per square mile. Kenton actually exceeds the threshold but it is one of only a handful of counties in the US that are outliers. Republicans have a well oiled machine in these counties but it is only a matter of time before national trends make their way to NKY. Trump got a lower percentage of the vote in Ludlow, Dayton, and Ft. Thomas than a typical GOP candidate. I predict those places swing left in 2020 and beyond as more young families move in to be close to downtown Cincinnati.

This article gets at the heart of the discussions we've had here about how popular urban neighborhoods can actually be losing population while seeing lots of new development: https://slate.com/business/2019/04/old-buildings-house-fewer-people-than-they-did-50-years-ago-what-happened.html Central Harlem, the gentrifying area adjacent to Central Park, leads the way: Between 2015 and 2018, 112 Central Harlem buildings “shrank,” taking 831 units off the market. That was nearly enough to counteract all the neighborhood’s new construction, which created 854 new units in that time. The neighborhood appears to be getting bigger, but it’s not. It’s a reminder that “growth” in cities isn’t always what it seems and that architecture can be an awfully poor proxy for the social structures to which it seems so closely tied. Neighborhoods that appear to be magnets for new people and more apartments may, behind every historic façade, be losing both.

I actually think he lives in East Walnut Hills.

I wouldn't say it is nasty, but the quality is typical diner. There is nothing special about it in my opinion.

What band? I've never seen a band at an FC game.

So I actually grew up in Adams County, which I guess is technically Southwest Ohio but is much closer culturally to Southeast Ohio and Eastern KY. But I spent a lot of time with family in Jackson County and Scioto County, and I went to college at OU.

I didn't mean to imply that anyone here was saying that. I was only adding to the discussion brought up by the City Beat article that was shared. I also don't know if rates are actually higher in urban areas. I have known people who would never even consider throwing something on the ground walking down the street but have no problem throwing something out their window going 65 mph down the highway. When you're in a car you are more anonymous and you are removed from the environment around you. I distinctly remember an acquaintance in high school who couldn't find a trash can at the county fair so he took his soda cup with him back to his truck and then threw it out the window once we got a little ways down the highway. It's weird.

To add to this, I like Kaze but I forget exists sometimes. When I'm thinking of places to eat it is the places with prominent sidewalk presence that pop into my mind. Kaze just kind of blends in.

The litter is not only an urban/black problem though. Drive around the beautiful rolling hills of southeast Ohio and you'll see trash in all the roadside ditches and littering people's properties. I grew up out that way and I remember tons of adults nonchalantly throwing their trash out the car window. You see it all the time.

I think he has a tendency to get emotionally attached to pie-in-the-sky type ideas. He's an eternal optimist.

Todd is a wonderful person and really smart. He's been a great public servant. That said, this Transit X stuff is bonkers. He's not the only one around here who thinks stuff like that is going to save us. Everyone wants to hang their hat on the big earth-shattering project instead of getting down to business and improving actual public transit.

Silver lining is that they won't suck up all the downtown housing demand and we will get more parking lots built on.

Yesterday evening, 3/25

Yea, if I move to Camp Washington it would be so I could get more bang for my buck in an urban location. Micro apartments are for downtown, OTR, Mt. Adams.

Somebody should send that pic to the owner and also to Cranley.

That's because our tax structure incentives this. A land value tax instead of a property tax would be one way to make this less desirable for the owner. Another way would be to tax surface parking at higher rates like they do in Pittsburgh and Philly. As it stands, we provide tons of disincentives to developing these kinds of lots.

I think he means it was an afterthought to the Trump admin, not to the folks who crafted it. Trump didn't create the tax act to get OZ's through, but he let them be put in to appease members of Congress that wanted them.

We just need to be patient. We've only been waiting for like 35 years.

https://www.citybeat.com/news/blog/20853469/joseph-auto-group-faces-boycotts-and-mockery-as-demolition-of-the-dennison-hotel-begins These guys.

This parking lot in downtown Cincinnati is the bane of my existence.

It does look a little better in person. And the garage will eventually have panels on it too so it'll be a tiny bit less noticeable. It looks good at street level. But yea, that garage is ginormous.

Yea, I think a lot of people would be surprised to learn it isn't a national chain. It definitely has the feel of one.