It’s all too common in Columbus (and many other cities) for an empty building or vacant lot to be a stain on the neighborhood while an owner waits for a better redevelopment deal.
The following is a sample column Brian Williams provided with his application to become a Columbus Dispatch Metro columnist in 1997. This is the first time it has seen the light of day.
Rather than trying to grow with the city and attract more families to district schools, CCS appears to be selling off its assets – like a failing business shrinking into oblivion.
The most important voices needed on Zone In are those of people who will be living in Columbus for the next 40 years rather than those who have been in their homes for the past 40 years.
If we make it easier for big trucks to turn, we end up making it harder for pedestrians to cross. And city officials have made their conscious (yet unconscionable) decision to serve the trucks.
The two-mile bike circulator is a fine idea, as far as it goes. But it sounds more like a tourist attraction than needed basic transportation for residents.
Tax abatements can be one tool for addressing affordable housing, but Columbus should look beyond abatements to ideas being implemented in places such as Montgomery County, Maryland.
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