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It's owned by Over the Rhine Community Housing, which is on 14th Street. It's a three minute walk away according to Google maps.

The little grass area? Not sure why they keep moving somewhere when they know they'll just get kicked out again. If they find it to be the same people they're continuing to deal with they should arrest them. And there were drug dealers there before? I've walked by that area a bunch but maybe I just never noticed them. Little "parks" like that really serve no purpose and only attract negative things like homeless and drug activity. Considering there's a real park less then 300 feet away they should develop that lot. It's a privately owned park and they've been given permission by the owner to be there. And yes, drug dealers regularly congregate there.

Lots of commercial in South Philly. There are corner stores, restaurants, and cafes on just about every corner--in row house type buildings. And the neighborhood's "main street" called Passyunk Avenue is vibrant and bustling. Plus there's the famous Italian Market. All this without high rises. I love high rises and I usually can't get enough of them. I live in one haha. But South Philly is an amazing, historic, high density, low rise neighborhood. It shows you can do high density right without the mass and scale of contemporary development.

I get your point, but I would disagree that it is hard to create density with old row houses. South Philly is one of the densest neighborhoods in the entire country and it is all row houses:

OH-10 and OH-14 are equally Republican or less so than OH-12 as well. So there are potentially five seats in play if things stay the same or get worse for the GOP. Not that I think there's any chance that they'd all go Republican, but it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility to see 3 or 4 of them flip.

Liberal WWE fan here. The WWE fan base is actually a quite diverse group. Lots of black and Latino fans, and they have a strong fan base in the suburbs of Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and Baltimore--all places that lean left. It's also extremely popular in white working class neighborhoods with strong union membership like South Philly. EDIT: Not to imply that South Philly is all white working class folks. It's very diverse, but there are a lot of white working class folks there, especially in places like Pennsport and Whitman where the old ECW Arena is located.

3CDC will be ecstatic if Rhinegeist starts seriously developing the area north of Liberty. The more population and business density in the basin the better off 3CDC will be.

Eh, when he says that I think he means among the folks who write him emails. Daugherty is pretty vocal in sharing his left-leaning opinions and talks in his column about how he gets lots of negative feedback in his inbox from Trumpers. He also lives in Clermont County, so there's that.

Yes! My biggest hope is that this and things like it gets the city to see how important bike lanes can be. Let's call them "non-auto transportation" lanes.

It's because of the horrible service. If I could use it to go to Chicago on a more frequently scheduled train that didn't leave in the middle of the night I would. As it stands, I'll never use it. When I lived in the Northeast train travel was my primary way of getting around the region.

Or a beer garden...

My statement was "Warren County... has a much higher percentage of college-educated people." Maybe we're splitting hairs here, but I consider 42.9 to be much higher than 36.9 considering the spectrum. The national average is 33.4, meaning Hamilton County is only slightly above average, whereas Warren County is significantly above average. Your trying to paint OH-1 as having wealthy, educated, liberal, urban residents and a bunch of dumb country bumpkins. I get it. The reality is it's got wealthy, educated, conservative suburban residents, and liberal urban residents who are all over the spectrum when it comes to education and income level. Warren County is higher, but both are above average--and the growth in both counties is concentrated among highly educated folks. As for your second part, I don't understand at all how you got that idea. I'm not saying that in the slightest. In Warren County I'd say the split is more among new/old residents than anything else. And I grew up in the country. Most of my family still lives in the country. I wouldn't characterize country folks as dumb.

Warren County, the reddest part of the district, grew significantly faster than Hamilton County and has a much higher percentage of college-educated people. I suppose you'd have to look at percent level data to really get an understanding of this and I don't care enough to do that, but I think your assertion doesn't factor in the bluest parts of the district - they're mostly poor urban districts in Cincinnati, where college degrees are few and far between. There aren't really a whole lot of people in poor rural areas in the district. Warren County has added 16,189 residents since 2010, while Hamilton has added 11,448. Between 2016 and 2017 Warren County added 2,406 and Hamilton County added 3,735. So no, Warren County hasn't grown significantly faster. It grew faster in the early part of the decade and is now growing slower than Hamilton County, according to the Census estimates. But also, the fastest growing parts of both counties are actually places that lean left or have shifted farther to the left each of the past several elections. Mason, Deerfield Twp, and Hamilton Twp in Warren all shifted to the left in the last election and are the fastest growing places in Warren County. In Hamilton you have growth in OTR, Downtown, Northside, Oakley, Pleasant Ridge, Hyde Park, Mt. Lookout, Blue Ash, Walnut Hills, East Walnut Hills, Madisonville, Mt. Auburn, and Green Township. I'm probably missing a couple but those are places that are definitely adding population. Among them, OTR, Downtown, Northside, Walnut Hills, East Walnut Hills, and Mt. Auburn are all solidly blue. Oakley, Pleasant Ridge, Hyde Park, Mt. Lookout, Blue Ash, and Madisonville have all been either lean red or lean blue but have trended more blue (in some cases significantly so) as new residents are more liberal than existing residents. The only one that can be considered solid red is Green Township, but it also trended significantly bluer in 2016 than in years past. Also, east side communities long considered to be conservative bastions such as Anderson Twp, Indian Hill, Terrace Park, Madeira, and Loveland all trended bluer in 2016. Your statements about education just aren't true either. Warren County is better educated, but both counties are well educated with 36.9% of Hamco residents having a bachelor's or better and 42.9% of Warren residents. 15.2% of Hamco residents have a graduate degree or better, while 15.1% of Warren residents do. Also the growth in both counties has come from well-educated folks.

The fact that the districts in question have been voting solidly Republican for a long, long time seems to be at odds with this. I think the bigger indication of what actually matters is the fact that Aftab has been receiving tons and tons of money from all over the country. He's taking the PG Sittenfeld route - get enough money in Cincinnati and you can essentially buy a seat despite being almost completely unknown. Well, first of all the 1st District has been gaining college-educated voters and shedding non-educated voters as it has gotten bluer. And the fastest growing and most highly educated communities within the district are also the bluest. And second of all, a majority of Aftab's money has come from donors in the district and he is not accepting PAC money. Finally, a majority of Chabot's money has come from PAC contributions this cycle. So those facts don't really line up well with your narrative. I think the DCCC is targeting the 1st District. So while Aftab may not be accepting money from PACs, he is likely benefiting from outside money being spent on his behalf. The DCCC has yet to spend any money on this race, though they no doubt will. And I have no doubt that the NRCC will be spending money for Chabot too. It would be unrealistic to think that both organizations wouldn't be getting involved in a close race.

The fact that the districts in question have been voting solidly Republican for a long, long time seems to be at odds with this. I think the bigger indication of what actually matters is the fact that Aftab has been receiving tons and tons of money from all over the country. He's taking the PG Sittenfeld route - get enough money in Cincinnati and you can essentially buy a seat despite being almost completely unknown. Well, first of all the 1st District has been gaining college-educated voters and shedding non-educated voters as it has gotten bluer. And the fastest growing and most highly educated communities within the district are also the bluest. And second of all, a majority of Aftab's money has come from donors in the district and he is not accepting PAC money. Finally, a majority of Chabot's money has come from PAC contributions this cycle. So those facts don't really line up well with your narrative.

I'm all for historic preservation but this block will never be a place people want to be as long as there's a huge brick wall dominating the street. Redeveloping this with windows would be a huge benefit for this part of downtown.

There is some context missing in this article. I was in Athens this weekend so I got the story first hand. For Pride Week, many bars put up signs supporting the LGBT community. Broney's was one of only two bars in town that declined to do so. They then put up this stupid sign instead. In context, it is much worse in my opinion. Someone at the bar was clearly sending a message. I commend Rhinegeist for taking this stance. I'll be buying more Truth and not going back to Broney's. Also, GO BOBCATS!

So Model Group, 3CDC, Urban Sites, and countless others aren't sensible? Seems like they're all doing fine building residences above and next to bars. You aren't speaking from the developer's perspective. Because developers of properties in urban locations love the draw of notable bars and restaurants. Most bars are pretty relaxed these days so they aren't an issue. Having activity on your ground floor is seen as a good thing as it brings people to your building. It doesn't "depress rents" in urban areas like you think it does. You are speaking with your own personal bias and projecting that onto large scale developers. Yep. Having worked in the development field for years I can tell you that 1400 Sycamore's claims are just completely false. They couldn't be further from the truth. But if you take them in the context of his/her other posts you realize that they have an extreme anti-urban bias. Their preference is more parking, less bars and restaurants, less people, less density. Basically a suburb.

There seems to be a trend among your posts? Do you even like cities? It seems that everything you argue for is very anti-urban.

Southwest Warren County is where all the growth is and it's also becoming more politically moderate, as new residents are more liberal. Maybe in 2018 it won't make the difference, I don't know. But eventually Ohio 1 in its current configuration becomes a Democratic-leaning district.

This type of comment also serves as an example of what I'm talking about when I say "low road." It's something I'd expect in the Trump thread, but you guys seem to have been completely overcome by this type of hateful divisiveness. I've never voted a straight ticket before, but if this type of rhetoric is going to become the norm it might drive we towards that. Really? This is so maddening. Trump and the GOP have been taking the "low road" from square one. Trump started all the devisiveness and keeps stirring it up every chance he gets. Republicans invented the concept of calling people snowflakes and asking them if they need a safe space. But it's liberals that are overcome by hatefulness? Please. The discussion we were engaged in (read a few posts back) was about how for the most part, the "low road" tactics that permeate both sides of national politics now have not been seen much in Ohio state politics. Neither from the Republicans nor Democrats. Until now. Right. And where we saw it on full display was the GOP gubernatorial primary. Some of the worst attack ads I've ever seen in a statewide election.

I really like One Lytle Place. New windows and some clean concrete it would look great. I regularly think that Cincy would have one of the best skylines in the US if everybody just decided to power wash their buildings. A lot of dirty concrete around town.

Cleveland may have (marginally) wider downtown streets than Cincinnati, but I disagree that the feel is worse. For example, Cleveland's "Main Street", Euclid Avenue, is probably as wide as Vine St. in Cincinnati, but the feel is worlds different. There is a dedicated bus lane in each direction and one through travel lane. Traffic moves very slowly and the sidewalks are wide, encouraging pedestrian activity. Even a "highway feeder" like East 9th St., which is wider than Vine St. by one lane feels less like a highway due to having 2 through lanes in each direction plus parking. The one way streets encourage people to drive faster and make the street feel less pedestrian friendly in my opinion. Also, Cleveland has nothing like Central Parkway downtown. The closest thing would be Superior Ave. in terms of width (although it's not nearly as wide), but again, Superior has been cut down to one through lane, a dedicated bus lane, and a median. You make good points. I retract my statement about Cleveland. They actually seem to use their street space a lot better than I remembered. I think the biggest problem is weird/big intersections like the one where Superior, W 6th, and Prospect come together.

It's all relative, I guess. I have lived my entire adult life in urban neighborhoods on the east coast and when I moved here the first thing I noticed is how wide the streets are, both downtown and in places like Oakely and Hyde Park. It's also one of the first things people comment on when they come visit me. I agree Cleveland and Detroit are worse though. I'd venture to guess that Madison and Erie would be even more in demand if they didn't function as highways. I agree with your last sentence though. I just don't think the problems are mutually exclusive.

^Exactly!