Mr Sparkle

Just comparing some numbers, b/c I wanted to know... Blue ash income tax revenue was 30 million in 2011 (Compared to Cincy's 298 million in 2010); http://www.blueash.com/filestorage/85/171/193/2011_CAFR.pdf http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/cityfinance/downloads/cityfinance_pdf44020.pdf Income tax revenue is about $2000 per capita for Blue Ash (15,000 pop?) and just over $1000 per capital for Cincy (297,000 pop)

With all due respect to your knowledge of the inner workings of the streetcar and the esteem which I hold for you on that subject, I wish you'd stop tossing around the $40,000 figure to somehow illustrate the value of Blue Ash Airport. As I said up thread, the income the city receives from the airport is only a small part of the value of the airport to the local economy. In 2006, Wilbur Smith Associates - an independent consulting firm that has produced more economic impact studies of airports than any other firm in the country - published a report stating that Blue Ash Airport is responsible for 75 jobs producing in excess of $7m in economic output. Your point in response was that little of that impact accrues to the city of Cincinnati, and that's probably true. But those jobs are local and the majority of that output stays in the metro area. Those on-airport businesses also pay income and property taxes, and the employees pay income tax, and their sales generate sales tax. These are locally-owned businesses employing local workers. By your logic, no municipality should ever build the road networks within an industrial park because those roads don't directly generate income to the municipality, and in fact cost money to maintain. You can't forget about the businesses that locate along those roads, though, which is what you seem to do with the businesses on Blue Ash Airport. Please don't try to portray the airport as strictly a $40,000 per year concern. The people that work on the airport and its allied businesses deserve better. How many of those 75 jobs directly contribute to the City of Cincinnati and not the City of Blue Ash (in reference to income taxes and offshoot spending - meals, etc.)? I would say none since the City of Blue Ash wholly surrounds the airport. So for the City of Cinti, the economic impact is nil

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I agree, but that was not what I was advocating. Sorry, I was speaking in general terms , not @ you....

Actually there are a lot of available jobs that do not require a college degree, but require more than a high school education, so called "middle skill" jobs. http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120618/EDIT/306180020/Worker-training-key-local-economy?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s Pushing everyone to seek a college degree is not the answer

Is this common in other towns? Over at the Business Courier they also say Duke will want to be able to shut down the streetcar operations when they need to work too close. Is that common policy? http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/blog/2012/06/duke-energy-floats-streetcar-solution.html How do they recover costs for relocating/extending utilities for suburban or road related projects? Mass transit construction fees should come from the same pot. For road projects, relocation of utilities is sometimes reimbursed by the DOT, if the utility has been there for some time, generally. If they are in R/W by permission of the DOT (By permit), then the relocation cost is borne by the utility; and, most likely is passed onto the ratepayers. I posted some information upthread

Unless you are having a natural gas boom, which is Kasich's modus operandi. Ohio needs to invest its natural gas boom back into education

Here is a clickable map of all MPO's in Ohio http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/Planning/SPR/StatewidePlanning/Pages/MPO_Map.aspx

Mowing is bid out by ODOT to private contractors currently.

^The part that interested me is that the RFP instructed the bidders that if they wanted confidential information redacted from any public records request, that they set aside pages and state why. Only one bidder followed those instructions. Have they never bid on Public projects before?

Can't the City work with Walgreen's on their current location to enlarge and have the drive thru (waive some parking requirements? -- I mean how often do you see every space in a Walgreen's lot filled...)

Who owns the parcels that Walgreen's wants (besides the VFW)? In order to go ahead with the plans, they need the current owners to sell - where is the outrage directed at them, do they not have a stake in their own community?

Yes, the comments are public records, and do have to be addressed

I've done Blue Ash to Independence in under 3.5 hours (Sun Eve), Blue Ash to Beachwood in under 3.75 hours (Thurs Afternoon); Beachwood is about even with Downtown CLE on I-271, so DT Cincy to DT Cle is 4 hours. 75 MPH on cruise Heck I can even make to Ashtabula in under 4.5 hours C'bus traffic is an easy bypass, SR 315 to avoid the split on I-71 N, I-270 only adds about 10 mins as well.

Was the inside of the Higbee Bldg the same one utilized in the Christmas Story?

It has been confirmed...obviously a very sad situation http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/junior-seau-dead-suicide-nfl-linebacker/story?id=16263047

Junior Seau was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound by suicide

04-30-12 Posting Date TRAC Re-Evaluation of Economic Factors Transportation Review Advisory Council (TRAC) in conjunction with the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) conducts an annual application cycle for project sponsors seeking funds from the Major New Capacity Program. The application process includes the evaluation of transportation, community and economic growth, and sponsor investment factors which are scored on a numerical scale in accordance with the TRAC Policies & Procedures (June 2011). Scoring information is used to aid TRAC in the development of the Major New Program List which establishes funding commitments for project development and construction. TRAC has well established process for evaluating transportation factors with known system data but has had difficulty with developing a process to accurately identify, quantify, and rank economic benefits of proposed projects as part of the Community and Economic Growth and Development Factors analysis. The goal of this study is to evaluate economic impact analysis conducted for transportation projects to identify potential TRAC policy and procedural improvements. A consultant agreement to conduct the study will be included in the May 14, 2012 Programmatic Consultant Selection Group. The preliminary Scope of Services is available through the following link: http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/Engineering/Consultant/Consultant/TRACEconomicROI_ScopeApproach.pdf

The rendering was provided by the City's consultant, not made by the Enquirer

the rendering printed in the Enquirer was the one PROVIDED by the city. http://cincinnati-oh.gov/city/downloads/city_pdf45422.pdf

But, all Heavy-Highway projects are constructed by unionized contractors....

Dang, I thought I discovered sliced bread!

http://www.clevelandmemory.org/ Anyone been here to explore? There are lots of old freeway location plans, e.g. for the Bedford Freeway that was cancelled; http://images.ulib.csuohio.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=exact&CISOBOX1=reports&CISOFIELD1=type&CISOOP2=all&CISOBOX2=bedford+freeway&CISOFIELD2=subjec&CISOROOT=all&t=s is there anything like this for the Cincy area?