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One of the few times I actually agree with the community on their development ideas.

Yeah pretty sure it got rezoned planned development long ago. The time to shut this development down was during all the hullabaloo about where the FC Cincy stadium should go.

Yeah the real story here shouldn’t be “we’re Hollywood writers, please feel bad for us.” it’s that a respectable career isn’t enough to afford a house, you need two jobs. The housing market in the US is a disaster. This article is really about a very valid concern that millennials get told is because they buy avocado toast.

Yeah that 1-story leasing office-type thing looks prime for a corner commercial use down the road. Knowing the NIMBYs were coming hard after "Wasson Tower," I bet they wanted to make sure the main purpose of this got built quickly, with hopefully an eye to the future as well. If zoning changes are needed for that, it's not like the NIBMYs have a sound argument against it. What, are they going to ask that this gets torn down instead of adding a comemercial space?

I did not, but the Bridge-Forward website does have a new presentation dated June 2023 on there. I imagine this is what was talked about. In summary, they do a deep dive on development opportunities (not just the renderings Bridge-Forward originally had, but numbers, plans and scenarios. WCPO did put out a story as well. John Cranley called on elected officials to grow a spine, which I though was comical. We all know he's supporting this because his buddies could be in for big dollars. Happy to have him on the team, but hilarious nonetheless.

If this keeps up we’re going to need to begin discussions on terminal C.

I agree that it's a long ride. If the goal is to link downtown to uptown in the quickest way possible, it has to be Vine. But SORTA is about to have their BRT routes fully designed in a few months. Whatever solution for Vine St there would have to have the streetcar in mind and I doubt it will when it releases. So if we do a Vine St extension, streetcar construction could be blocking that BRT route for a year or so. This is one of the few silver linings to the purple line.

Well, if we're going roughly off of the original uptown study, it'll look something like the below. (Up McMicken-McMillan-Calhoun and back) Link Per the fox19 article, Green and Orange are ruled out. This would align with what is pushed in the Fox19 article and what John Schneider's been pushing for. Get the low hanging fruit by continuing up McMicken. The downside being you'll miss the Reading/MLK development area (or it would be a really long ride). From there you have 3 branch opportunities: Western Hills Viaduct, Northside, and Uptown. They'd also be tantalizingly close to the unused subway tunnels under Central Pkwy as well. Although I don't know if there's really a utility to those in these route configurations.

Good to see council has been working on getting a study funded in the shadows (until now).

Meh, she said she’s open to it if private backers can match the federal grants available. I agree that UC and Uptown Consortium should have some skin in the game for an uptown extension. The Mohawk extension should be much cheaper, but likely wouldn’t have major private backers.

The season has been magical. Votto didn't want to say it, but it still slipped out: this team has a different energy than the ones that competed in the early 2010's. I didn't think I'd see a more fun Reds team than the ones in that era that would get a lead with strong starting pitching and then have Chapman come out and close the game with 103 mph fastballs.

Yeah, I don't care if cars have access to a continuous street grid in this part of the neighborhood. The grid still exists for pedestrians, and in fact was enhanced for them.

Yeah, they sold it as a safety initiative… thats what the public writ-large cares about. Just watch the local news, 75% of it is about crimes and deaths. But this really accomplished the above.

As a cheaper alternative, I also really like the one that ProudHound's parking lot uses. It's like a rubber honeycomb system with pea gravel filling it in, making it plenty permeable.

I just use the mobile website, which isn't great either. I've heard the official app absolutely drains battery with all the data mining it does.

I know they use the excuse, "well we can do the same thing from home," but there absolutely is a difference in my work day and my mood depending on whether I'm in the office or at home. The real issue here is that companies have been wringing employees dry to the point that in order to live a "middle class" life, you and your spouse need 40-60 hour jobs that require you to be in an office that entire time (circa 2019). This means that you don't get to spend quality time with your kids, except on weekends, and half the money you make goes to daycare expenses. So while employees say they see no point to coming into the office, there really could be family and daycare cost implications to it as well. Yes, I'm sure plenty of 20-somethings love being able to sit back at home and watch Netflix while they work, but that doesn't represent the majority of workers.

I agree with spreading too far outside of your home base, that's an odd space to play in. If you're doing that, then you need a differentiator. I've been to the Norwood Hi-Wire. Cool rooftop vibe, but definitely generic.

From a business perspective, I understand why MadTree and the like are going for more gathering spaces rather than distribution growth. Alcohol consumption trends can change on a dime; seltzers for example have completely shaken up the industry. Also, if a true recession hits, people will be cutting $10-$15 six-packs out of their budget first. Outside of pandemics, there will always be demand for gathering spaces where people can socialize and drink alcohol. A lot of breweries pride themselves on being a "community gathering space" too, so the mission can be different depending on their vision.

That's probably true, but City Council has been leading the urbanist charge during this term, why can't they help push for a study?

Yeah, and Cincinnati council recognizes that OTRCC is not to be taken seriously, thank goodness. This is their new go-to excuse: "There are families that want to live here, but we only build 1-2 bedroom housing, so the few options that do exist aren't affordable"

I hate to sound confident, but you'll have the abortion and fair maps people make huge grassroots pushes (maybe even legal weed advocates). To me, those organizations will easily get this voted down. The Republicans don't have as visceral an argument, it's just "let's make it harder for special interests to change laws." That's not going to bring Yes voters out in droves like the other two will for No votes.

It's a low-turnout special election, you know who wins those? The side that is more fired up. I don't think there's anyone on the 60% side that is fired up. This will end up being an embarrassing loss for them anyway.

It's going to be on Ridgeway, next to the City Park operations building, it appears. It would make more sense to find a place that both the Hamilton and Reading routes can use, but I have no idea if the Reading MLK one is still on the table.

Yeah this is ridiculous even from an owners perspective. How annoying would it be if you have to wait a while to even be able to pull out of your front-facing garage onto one of our busier downtown streets? It'd be much easier to leave your house into an alleyway that filters to a minor street (say Pleasant) that filters via light or right-turn only to a major street (say Liberty). There's also a safety aspect to not having front-facing garages. Pedestrians would now have another thing to avoid if there were cars popping out of garages along a street, the wheelchair-bound would have to deal with a sloped sidewalk, AND drivers downtown now also need to pay attention to random spots along a street where a car could pop out in front of you out of nowhere.

This would have happened regardless of the Obama-era rules. Our modern economy is hyper-focused on quarterly results and efficiencies. Why sell any cars that nets you $2k per unit sold when you can sell ones that make you $6k per unit sold (and put them on longer loans)? The American companies that ditched sedans will be taking their lumps during a recessionary period, while the Asian manufacturers will be well-positioned since they still have sedans in their lineups. You know what's short-term efficient? Selling cars with higher margins. It's as simple as that. This would have happened whether or not a Ford Escape gets 40mpgs or 20mpgs.