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GCrites

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  1. GCrites replied to Columbo's post in a topic in Ohio Politics
    He doesn't seem like the kind of service member other service members and veterans like.
  2. GCrites replied to Columbo's post in a topic in Ohio Politics
    ^Right, when voting isn't a part of a Harley Rodeo they aren't as likely to turn up.
  3. It's a good place for them to drive through not drive to. We need more places to go to, not through.
  4. GCrites replied to ColDayMan's post in a topic in Mass Transit
    Thanks for the info. I was at work and couldn't access the article.
  5. GCrites replied to ColDayMan's post in a topic in Mass Transit
    For $8 billion we get BRT but Cincinnati got rail for $130 million?
  6. This is a symptom of not enough corner stores and other "retail" tenants such as bars and restaurants in a vicinity. Supermarkets constantly closing in favor of larger and larger locations with ever-wider product lines, putting coffee shops, banks, liquor stores, and large prepared food sections within their doors has led to the loss of delis, pharmacies and other specialty retailers in non-super-dense areas that are old, dense but have a tipping point of SFH that keeps the smaller shops away. Columbus is bursting with neighborhoods like this that have too little multifamily to get full walkability under today's business models but did have all of those things under the business models of the past.
  7. GCrites replied to Columbo's post in a topic in Ohio Politics
    So many people in my personal network are binging up how terrible Mandel's ads are -- both Democrats and Republicans. And there was an LTE in the Dispatch today calling them out as well.
  8. GCrites replied to KJP's post in a topic in City Discussion
    Are those the ones that smell like come? Portsmouth had those and some friends from NE Ohio knew about them. I had never experienced that as someone from Columbus before but they had.
  9. I remember going along as we visited prospective preschools for me. I remember asking a girl at the playground what it's like to be 3. She said "It's no different." Meanwhile my mother is one of those people that can't remember anything before age 10 and couldn't even in her 20s. She doesn't remember her house not having running water or a bathroom, having taking a bath in a washtub or anything like that even though they didn't add a bathroom until she was 8. We even have pictures. Memories in early childhood vary.
  10. GCrites replied to KJP's post in a topic in City Discussion
    Ashville lost almost all of its trees in a pre-emptive strike against the ash borer several years ago. It looks terrible and they haven't planted enough new ones.
  11. I think it's not going to be too long until the banks start financing speculative SFH again. Perhaps not to the degree that they were in 2003, but they're not going to demand every house be sold before it goes up.
  12. Man, tearing all that down before the zoning change goes through. I know they're going to get it but still.
  13. GCrites replied to KJP's post in a topic in City Discussion
    There used to be a thing around town where if someone couldn't buy a new house they would cut down all the trees so that it would be more like a new house. I've had several conversations with people who thought like that.
  14. He was time traveling to research an upcoming role... ...yeah, that's the ticket
  15. Wasn't this section called "Crane Watch" at some point?
  16. It does have Commercial Activity Tax of 0.26 percent.
  17. The most important control points in the interstate system were the ones developed first and, for the most part, remain the most important ones today.
  18. GCrites replied to a post in a topic in Urbanbar
    ^Dana Jean Phoenix, The Sweeps, Cannons, Trevor Something Big fan of this one:
  19. Similar properties in the vicinity had to sell for the elevated amounts before the property tax valuation goes up. If there haven't been sales of this type recently it will stay low. A two-story commercial building or an old 10,000 square foot dump truck maintenance building selling for big bux doesn't count. Since there is almost no other SFH in the vicinity they can't make a direct comparison.
  20. You get more shows with a big room than you do with multiple smaller rooms.
  21. Anecdotally it seems like a lot of people are moving back in with their folks no matter their age. Or to Appalachia where the jobs mostly suck but prices have only gone up a little rather than doubled.
  22. '50s zoning laws push for SFH only yet land is too expensive for developers to be interested in SFH in the city.
  23. Ha, a lot of the other NFL stadiums have autocross going on outside of them all weekend during the spring and summer. Not the case at PBS. The whole idea of the public sector/taxpayers funding the majority of stadium and arena builds (not including state schools) is kind of outdated anyway, no?
  24. ^bUt ThIs TyPe Of BuSiNeSs NeEdS a DrIvE-tHrU!