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I don't think anyone here is interested in those. The limitations of those in most applications is apparent outside of areas where land is very expensive, the most dense places in the world. If you ask me anything over about 35 stories leads to worse urbanism since above that the building tends to be a lot more self-contained i.e. people not leaving the building as often. And if the market isn't insisting on that height it tends to lead to too much grass and surface lots nearby.

Seems like contractors today refuse to dig a hole for anything less than 1600 square feet.

Appalachian Ohio is especially underserved with charging infrastructure.

^Well that's the thing about Ohio, every town has it's "day" that the houses are kinda stuck in. As far as SFH goes, Cincinnati is like 1880, Columbus is 2003, Appalachia towns are like 1915 and sounds like Cleveland is the '50s. See I like intact '70s and early '80s and Columbus has very little of that and the stuff it does have is in terrible locations (think 5-digit address numbers).

From Edsel to Ishtar the private sector screws up all the time too.

1 hour ago, taestell said: "Funny that conservatives and libertarians will often criticize investment in public transportation as a "social engineering" effort by liberals." They label auto-centic development "traditional" even though we all know that didn't become popular until the 1950s whereas good urbanism has existed for millennia. I hear them do it all the time.

That's fine.

Who?

You've only got 5-10 years of low maintenance on a new house. And the first two years are spent on teething problems, personalizing and covering up the poor craftsmanship seen today. So really only like 3-8 years of low maintenance.

Everything coming off of 670 has to turn left or right at the intersection since it is one-way currently. Closing it would make no difference to traffic coming off 670. In fact it would make it easier since the cycle of cars going one-way west on Spruce would be eliminated.

You're not talking about the part of Spruce where the closure idea is being floated. Between Front/Park and Wall is currently one-way in the opposite direction from the flow off of 670. Closing the section on the north side of the North Market would not affect the rest of Spruce Street. It is essentially the driveway into the North Market parking lot and is in no way an arterial. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Spruce+St,+Columbus,+OH+43215/@39.9724575,-83.0040973,156m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x88388f2651a257d9:0xe554911e52f24ae2!8m2!3d39.972512!4d-83.0059936

That's Chestnut Ridge. Runs from Lithopolis almost to Lancaster.

Spruce is not an artery.

Great idea bumping this thread out of nowhere so that you can argue with people.

Chip shortage affecting security system install?

The Chicken District really isn't coming back now

Just think, this was raw greenfield until now.

^Trying to remember what that was.

And that's with just two sports -- football and men's basketball. The rest of the sports lose money.

Appalachia would increase cost due to a lot of expensive grading and blasting. Also people interested in a "woke" city might be really unhappy with the politicians they would be stuck with initially with the population at 50K.

That's usually around the time of year mountain bike trails close for the season. Looks like there's asphalt too though.

Yeah man, I'm already burnt out on My Thing and it's only been 11 years. It's not because I don't have the endurance for it -- it's just too much frustration having the secondary market (and increasingly, the primary market as well) have it's near-daily whims with my business. When you are at the top of an organization you realize that the things that affect your work most are far bigger than you and an enormous amount of things are out of your hands. You feel like you have no control.

Marc's has a reputation in Columbus as the only place in town where you can consistently get Oh's cereal.

Wow!

Seems like they're more focused on warehouses right now.