On Development: More local voices needed
The city needs to find ways to support economic development and build more housing without so readily awarding tax breaks, and that means bringing in new perspectives.
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On Development: Progressive tax policy in Ohio?!? Maybe
It’s very easy for owners to pay low taxes on decaying properties while waiting for somebody else to begin a resurgence. A proposed move to a land tax would make it harder for these squatters to wait.
On Development: Whatever happened to homegrown economic development?
Economic strategies in Ohio are more focused on helping existing corporations get stronger than on actually developing something new.
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.
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.