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It would be a nice amenity but this is intended to be affordable housing and operating a pool onsite would end up raising rent for everyone.

With a name like Fancyburg, all I'm imagining is a bunch of people with canes, tops hats and monocles slowly strolling around the park looking down their nose at anyone else in the park. I like it.

Yeah right on the other side of the bridge is the treacherous dirt path we all use to exit the trail here haha. More access points to the trail the better, it's absolutely beautiful on the trail back in this area and there are so many spots where you can access the river.

I have to imagine they are temporary. I assumed they were there to protect the grandstand so it doesn't get damaged by all the construction activities around it.

Yeah I think that's my hangup. It's an activity for people who can't do more active things and those more active things often aren't even active enough for me haha.

I do not know why, but I've always felt like being in a city and walking underneath things that aren't roads/highways make a city feel more "city" if that makes any sense. Just reminds me of the old elevated train infrastructure in places like NYC and those neighborhoods always seem so cool and have so much character and life in them.

Which I think is why I don't get it. Seems like it should be all the rage at the retirement home and nowhere else. We hated it in gym class because it was so mild. Like you would rarely even break a sweat! You say more accessible version of tennis, I say it's a bigger and lamer version of ping pong. Also I don't think the corn hole/horseshoe comparison really works. You can play both of those with a beer in your hand lol.

I really don't understand the whole pickleball thing. Pickleball was the worst gym class activity 15 years ago. You only played if you couldn't get a badminton or volleyball court and you were typically not happy about it.

A fish prison?! We already had one prison downtown, we don't need another one!

I absolutely love how there is still a massive parking lot with a billboard advertising fireworks right in the middle of these photos. We are making so much progress but this is still Columbus lol.

Good news is they shouldn't have issues collecting rain water in Central Ohio.

They've done such a good job maintaining the character of Downtown Newark with all these upgrades over the past decade. I visit relatively frequently and it's better literally every single time I go. This is actually an old photo to, Barrel and Boar has been closed for well over a year.

Sweet! Is this the video someone screen grabbed a still from where you could see downtown Columbus in the background? Was a pretty cool shot. I think it was posted on Reddit.

I wish everything in this town got built as quickly as hospitals do. They seem to go up 5x faster than anything else and we weirdly have a lot of recent examples to pull from to see this pattern.

Seems like a massive upgrade to me. Going from ugly, outdated, unlivable apartments to a nice more modern community style development. Anytime I've been in an active development like this, there are always people out walking, spending time in the green space, outside grilling, kids running around playing etc etc. It's really nice to see. You don't get that in a massive monolith apartment building.

There's something about a nice staircase in the middle of a beautiful room that is just so cool.

Seems they actually have legitimate reasons to reject something for once. Still hope they can readjust the design and get something tall-ish approved for here.

Some humans also are pushing 6ft wide these days. We need wider sidewalks!

Statistics?! Noooo, just our own individual observations is all that matters here. Nothing else going on that we don't see! So being in South Clintonville I can be downtown at the North Market in 12 minutes if I take either 315 or 71 South, or I can be there in 15-17 minutes if I just drive down High Street the entire way. I drive High Street from German Village to Worthington area fairly regularly (not the entire thing all at once, but I will use High to go to any of these places unless I need to be there ASAP since I literally never have to turn one time). People always get all "ohhh, the traffic lights!" about High Street but they cycle really fast and the road is rarely busy enough for you to hit multiple cycles anywhere. It's a fairly easy way to get north/south in the city plus there are things to look at and places to stop along the route. I call it "taking the scenic route" when I use High to get places haha. EDIT: Plus one thing nice about Columbus, we do not seem to have that "stop in the middle of the intersection and block everyone because your light is green" thing going on. Never encountered that one time on High Street.

Exactly. We are one of the most car centric major cities in the entire country. We can't just remove infrastructure for the transportation method 98% of people are using here. It would be sooooo much easier to do that if we already had the public transit infrastructure, but most of the suggestions people are making here, while I agree with them and they are great, would not make sense for this city at this time because we are a SUPER car dependent population right now. Those are the types of changes you make when the other transportation options are already available to gently nudge some residents towards using it. Right now it would just aggressively shove everyone into longer commutes and more time sucking down exhaust fumes.

Like you said, it's the backbone of Columbus. Possibly hundreds of thousands of people live off of High Street. They all kinda need to go places so making it even more of a pain for the residents to access where they live so visitors can have a nicer time isn't going to be received positively by the people actually living here. Yes the street needs to be safer and the area needs to be more pleasant for pedestrians, but you can't make the place a more difficult area to live in to satisfy those desires. There has to be a balance of safety and functionality.

Yeah there is just WAY too much traffic in the area to really justify getting rid of lanes. There are like 30,000 residents in the neighborhood, it might be the most populated neighborhood in the entire city. North Linden might have it beat, it's kinda hard to find accurate neighborhood population statistics. Removing lanes would only make the traffic even worse and it's only getting more crowded. What we need is exactly what you said, more traffic calming and more spots for pedestrians to safely cross the street. There are a few sections of shops where it's like a 0.25 mile walk at least to get to a safe crossing so people just spring across 5 lanes of traffic all the time. And I know I've said it a ton here, but removing ALL street parking from High Street and reclaiming that for pedestrians is only better for literally everybody. Stops massive traffic backups from people trying to parallel park and gets the cars further away from the pedestrians and outdoor dining areas.

Preposterous! There is nothing more beautiful than an endless crumbling sea of asphalt sparsely populated by a handful of poorly maintained vehicles! /s

50/50. They either have interest or they don't!

This photo does not do this building justice. This thing is an absolute beauty in person, there are so many details on this bad boy it's insane.