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Much of the rise in the sunbelt occurred before rail transit started becoming a more important requirement to people. Now we look back at the mid-2000s as the early days of booming interest in good urbanism. Before that it was more Bohemian. And the Sunbelt cities kept up with demand for rail transit by adding or expanding it, even if their lines and station locations are often suboptimal.

It's more like "once they've lived in a city with it they won't move to ones without it" and "cities without it struggle to retain natives". It's not just the rail transit itself, but the development patterns and good urbanism that results from properly-designed rail transit. So without it you still get the people from Coshocton but you don't get anyone from Austin.

Are you really getting on the "everybody's leaving the cities" boat? Let's give it a few years for the COVID after-effects wear off and the overheated rents in the most expensive cities cool so that we can see if the cities fill right back in or not. To do so beforehand is knee-jerk reactionary.

Skinny fans!

Permanent Performance Art installation!

I do count streetcars. They make a big difference. Whereas our system would be light rail with in-street sections. I also feel like we would be wiser with our route than the Sunbelt cities. I don't think we'd approve a line running up Hamilton from Groveport to New Albany as our main, for example.

He was (is?) A super negative user on Columbus Underground.

I know what you mean, but even if our rail only ran in the median of 104 it would still change perceptions.

Austin has rail transit. Beating the drum here.

Probably going to make Dennis the Menace turn up

Next they'll be coming for the Avis/Budget lot! And this beaut: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9846798,-83.0337106,3a,75y,63.35h,81.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1svaJhtJawbCZenelXoW3afA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

So the site in COLUMBUS doesn't match GRANDVIEW height code? We know it matches COLUMBUS code since there are 4-story buildings already built nearby also in COLUMBUS. Sounds manipulative calling it merely "local" code.

That's Texas in general. Collector-Distributor roads with a freeway in the middle all over the place. Not all of them have the freeway elevated for as long as the Austin example though.

You can see the fan sucking the banner into the grille in pic 3.

Train station could be cool if you got rid of the Portajohns and tarps

I think by "retail" they mean "taproom".

In that pic the sign post is gonna put a halt to your fun real quick if you try jumping the bumpout on a quad

Had companies not been so hellbent on locating in Dublin/Worthington/Westerville and continued to expand Downtown instead development patterns in the metro would have remained much more even during all this growth.

So the Cincinnati property tax rollback didn't help that situation?

It's had one as long as I've been around so I'm used to it. Some other cities such as Austin and Portland were able to ditch their crises in that time. Since we don't have rail transit like they added in that period we weren't able to become a "choice" city but rather a "have to" city.

Now add our totally out of line property taxes.

I know a japanese barcade was slated to go in there but had to deal with so many ups and downs with "fire inspections and sprinklers" and the super-flaky building owner that it just didn't happen. The guy was trying to sell the building and didn't want a new tenant when he sold it I guess. It turned into a whole thing; I think there were even demonstrations in front of the building. This was about two years ago.

Grandview Ave. is getting weirder and weirder. I mean, weird is good -- it means you're a real town. Not talking about food so much; rather all the businesses added up.

Then there's Ye Olde Foxconn Debacle in Wisconsin.

The other thing is that while Ohio may have low state taxes the local taxes in Columbus are outrageous. As in some of the highest in the country. It's easy to have low state taxes if you cut state funding to cities/counties and make them raise more money on their own.