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I think 400 SF is pushing the lower bounds of an actual complete living space. 200 SF is a fad. And at $400 a square foot, it's offensive.

Someday all new residential projects are going to be named a series of mathematical equations.

Atlas doesn't like an architectural proposal. Someone call CNN.

Midterms are a very different electorate than presidential elections. Long term trends are not in the Republicans favor.

This phrase makes zero sense to me. Are there three languages in there? I'm glad they thought about the interior, but I'm still completely lost on it. I'm excited to finally have a living room though. I can't wait to bring popcorn, wear my Snuggie and sit at one of those booths browsing Buzzfeed on my laptop all night. Okay do you or do you not actually own a Snuggie? Oh, no I dont. I guess I'm not all posh like you Columbus people. I live in Cincinnati lol.

This phrase makes zero sense to me. Are there three languages in there? I'm glad they thought about the interior, but I'm still completely lost on it. I'm excited to finally have a living room though. I can't wait to bring popcorn, wear my Snuggie and sit at one of those booths browsing Buzzfeed on my laptop all night. Okay do you or do you not actually own a Snuggie?

I was all excited to make a pulp fiction reference and then I scrolled up to see IT HAD BEEN STOLEN FROM ME.

^ I was thinking the exact same thing when I read the article. However, it's not really that surprising. Cranley isn't a fiscal conservative any more than he is an urbanist. He is a political opportunist and ran on pitching neighborhoods against downtown and anti-streetcar against pro-streetcar. If you could say he's for anything in particular, it's transferring money from income-generating parts of the city like downtown to west-side neighborhoods that he considers neglected.

I think it could work. You can only put so many A Tavolas in a city before that interior turns into a cliche.

I resemble that remark!

Starting a city in the middle of a cornfield is the epitome of sprawl. Even if it's moderately dense, it will never come close to the impact of simply revitalizing a real city. That's not really accurate. Sprawl is the excessive, resource-inefficient outward growth of existing urban areas, where the entire area is the same single economy. There's nothing wrong with building a new settlement.

That is the worst name for a beer I've ever heard. No joke.

Yeah but it's really reaching a turning point. I haven't done a morning commute into Cincinnati in years. This morning it took me 1 hour and 10 minutes to get from Milford to Pill Hill, door to door. I was speechless. I do not know how much more our region can grow with its existing interstate-only transportation system, honestly.

That letter was dripping with disdain for anyone east of I-275, hidden behind a guise of urbanism. Here's what people in Mariemont, Terrace Park and Indian Hill really want: to pretend that they still live on the pastoral edge of Cincinnati, where they can freely move to and from downtown unhindered. This only aligns with urbanism coincidentally. These are the same communities that will vote against transit, and send car-friendly politicians to Columbus and Washington.

I photoshopped the rest of the windows into the picture I took in August. I think whether or not this thing is horrid or kind of cool is going to depend on the reflections and light of day.

Will it really be car competitive until it goes to uptown? Or are these conversations assuming that uptown is imminent, and we are measuring performance based on that? I get antsy hearing about densification and car-competitiveness and then never getting it past Findlay Market. I might not have been in transit planning in 5 years, but I would feel uncomfortable in that capacity calling the OTR loop car-competitive.

I would pay $300 a year in an instant, if it meant that it was executed in an orderly fashion and a spot within a block or so of my house was reserved by virtue of limiting the permits and adequate enforcement. To me it would be about the predictability of storing and accessing my car, otherwise I'd just feel like the city was screwing me. Who wants to pay $25 a month for a sticker that might get you to your front door or might get you on the other side of the neighborhood, or nowhere at all.

The city has made it no secret that they want a hotel there by a certain date. Devs smelled the impatience and are just fishing for money to see if they get a bite.

Plus, it's hard to believe Mark Policinski had the nerve to make some of the statements he did in the article, which strained credulity. Um, guys, our Transportation director is an asphalt lobbyist. Nothing at the state or regional level is going to be easy until he's gone. Nothing.

I wonder if the Enquirer was paid to publish that article. It was just a promotion of the suburbs and various new housing developments in and around Mason. It was not news.

Haha don't thank me, thank Cygnus and Travis. Those guys rock.

Come on guys. Anyone can take a picture with their phone. Here's one from the 23rd, which was the last time I was down there.

I think its good that they are building some stations now. They are going to get hit, vandalized, spray painted. The city will be able to evaluate them and improve/respond long before the system opens.

It's this: This really isn't that hard to understand.

It only shows his disdain for that neighborhood.