On Development: Developing better health care and hospitals
Despite the hospital construction projects all over the state, residents across most of Ohio are no closer to health care – and many are even further removed from hospitals.
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On Development: Of salad greens and sensible growth
Many developers and sellers confuse demand for a certain type of housing and a willingness to buy. There are hundreds of thousands of people in central Ohio who prefer older houses and apartments.
On Development: Cars can’t take us where we need to go
The billions of dollars of new road improvements cited in MORPC’s analysis 26 years ago have already been spent, and now we’re still looking at the same challenges with more people and more roads.
On Development: Cities and schools need to be on the same page
There is a savings associated with closing schools. But there also is a cost.
On Development: Traffic violence is more than an accident
Traffic violence is not a term in common usage. But it’s a whole lot more accurate than “accidents” – a benign misnomer for the carnage that can take place on our streets and highways.
Opinion column: A district in name only
The conversations taking place in the wake of Tiara Ross defeating Jesse Vogel for a seat on Columbus City Council suggest the city might finally be shaking off its history of complacency.
On Development: Nudge the market to get the city we need
While designed to enable small and large developers to meet the needs of a growing city, Zone-In stops short of encouraging some of Columbus’ development needs.
CMHA housing pivot a byproduct of the times
The Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority's recent decision to purchase a large downtown property nearly a decade after stepping back from that model emerged from being caught in a swirl of a growing need for affordable housing, changes in federal policies, and new ways of looking at housing needs.
On Development: Columbus is stuck with these doggone doglegs
City maps show that by 1872 Columbus had grown well beyond that core along the Broad and High axes. Instead of neat, four-corner intersections of cross streets, the city’s main thoroughfares were broken into dogleg intersections.
On Development: Economic models Spin-ning out of control
Thanks to JobsOhio, out-of-state companies such as Amazon, Veo and Spin can invest little in Columbus and pull a lot of profit out of it.