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I'm pretty sure they do. Unfortunately the decision makers don't hold the same opinions of the actual average resident of the neighborhood. I tried to get on the area review committee and it's very much a cliquey type club and not an actual productive organization. They aren't here to support the population of the neighborhood, they are there to protect the interests of a few minority stakeholders.

It's not the residents who complain, it literally is the businesses. Studio 35 was a so outspoken against protected bike lanes because they might lose a few parking spots by their front door. I'm fairly certain the actual residents of this neighborhood are mostly on board with those types of changes. So many people walk and bike around here, they all want it to be better and don't want to be forced to stick to the side streets where it's actually nice and calm.

I don't mind walking down High at all, it really isn't that bad. What I do mind is trying to cross it though...

A bit of a strange observation, but the rendering having balconies for the Parsons development is huge. I've always observed that developers seem to be unwilling to put private outdoor spaces on apartments in areas that have had less then stellar reputations at times in their history. It's usually one of the things I look out for to identify if I'm in a decent area or not. "Do the apartments have balconies?". If they don't, it's usually either a hotel, assisted living or it's a regular or low income apartment in areas with more crime or something.

Some of these photos give the illusion of extreme density in the area! Love to see it, it'll come to complete fruition someday.

With all of these data centers popping up, I better never get lag on my PS5 ever again!

Certainly won't make you stop and go "wow", but it at least won't make you stop and go "why is this crappy used car shack here at this prominent intersection?".

It already looks insane compared to 5-10 years ago!

I think it kinda looks like a giant spaceship. Reminds me of The Nimbus from Futurama. I like it.

Denver is also the only significant city in about an 8 hour radius so people from the region tend to gravitate towards there and the area has always pulled in outsiders from around the country because of the abundance of sunlight and the winter sports. We have like a dozen or more significant metro areas to contend with in the same radius around Columbus.

We can't keep up with housing but at least we won't have to wait in a big line at the hospital.

Where I grew up, we just walked in the streets. There were also a ton of walking trails in the woods and what not but if we wanted to get to the neighborhood pond as kids we had to walk on the street and then cross a road with double yellow lines on it around a tight bend. It was not what I would call safe.

And the only feature they decided to replicate was having poles right in the middle of the sidewalk. Shame!

One new trend I do appreciate is that all these suburban style housing developments are being built with sidewalks everywhere. As someone who grew up in a late 80s/early 90s suburban neighborhood, they never built any in that era with sidewalks. We had to ride our bikes and walk in the street and the neighborhood was hilly and curvy so it was kinda dangerous to do that.

Uptown Charlotte is really cool but man, that city is even more spread out and car centric than Columbus!

It's always so interesting to see different working culture collide. Sometimes it goes well and sometimes it's awful. I did some work for a Spanish company that operates in Cincinnati making corrugate products and a lot of top management was from Spain and everyone else was Ohio people wearing Bengals gear. The Spanish people were overly passionate to the point of it causing issues while the Ohio people just wanted to work and get paid. And then the Spanish folks would get into these passionate discussions, come up with a bunch of ideas and then go on vacation for 5 weeks and nothing ever happened with anything they said previously.

Happy to see they got at least some trees that aren't saplings. We don't want to wait 35 years to get more shade in this city!

Hilarious to me they have "shoe production lab" listed and nobody in the rendering is making shoes lol.

All suburbs are suburbs. Why are we excluding certain suburbs from the discussion because of where they are located? The close ones just have the benefit of COTA actually having stops there and those stops being used should be referenced as a reason why more stops should be added to further out suburbs. People in suburbs will use public transit if it's available in their suburb, that's all I'm trying to convey with this example. The location of the suburb is irrelevant. I'm from Massachusetts originally and people from much much further out than what Dublin is to Columbus used public transit to get to Boston every single day because it was an available option to them. Hell, I use to take the bus to the airport from Cape Cod because it was available to me. Hard to say people in suburbs here won't use public transit when it's literally never even been an option for them in any capacity. If you build it, they will come!

Uh oh, nobody was supposed to know about the secret extra floors!

The only way they'll ever implement any increased type of public transit in this city (or anywhere) is if they think people will use it. Aside from securing the money and resources, it's literally the most important factor.

Assumptions, assumptions, assumptions! Never provides any actual value and often make people look foolish in the long run.

You said "these same people would never take public transit" and I was just providing you an example of those exact people regularly taking public transit. If the transit is there, people will use it it's as simple as that. Lumping massive diverse groups of people into big categories is doing absolutely nothing positive to help anything.

To say that people would "never" take public transit from these locations is a massive over exaggeration. I use to commute through Upper Arlington everyday for over a year and there were always people dressed to work in an office waiting at the bus stops. Albeit it was not a lot of people, but there were people walking from their single family home neighborhood to the end of the neighborhood to wait at a bus stop and take a bus into downtown for work. I imagine a lot more people would consider this option if 99% of our bus stops were more than a pole sticking out of the ground. Hard to commit to taking a bus to work or riding a bike to work everyday when we live in one of the rainiest cities in the entire country and there is nowhere to get any shelter while waiting for the bus. The reason offices are moving to suburbs is not because they love suburbs, it's because that's where their employees live, there isn't reliable public transit from these areas to downtown and due to the lack of public transit everyone has to drive so now getting access to cheap and accessible parking becomes an issue. Offices would stay downtown if their employees were not constantly complaining about how difficult and expensive it is to commute in and out everyday.

Under 30min is short in my eyes! And that would also assume the person is walking at a normal pace which I personally would not be haha. I'll get there all sweaty.