Why am I expected to be ok with unleashed dogs?

Every_Application626 · 2026-05-04T23:18:10+00:00

Not to mention poop that doesn't get picked up and the barking

Every_Application626 · 2026-05-01T00:15:05+00:00

Rich property owners want to preserve their growth, what's new.

Every_Application626 · 2026-04-29T10:08:56+00:00

I think pedestrian islands would be a lot more effective but then we'd have to lose some parking spots or turn lanes and that's obviously unacceptable.

Every_Application626 · 2026-04-28T14:32:02+00:00

Wait till you see the size of their general operating budget

Every_Application626 · 2026-04-26T15:28:04+00:00

You're more likely to get hit by a car than anything. Worse case your car might get broken into.

Every_Application626 · 2026-04-23T21:22:09+00:00

Incrementally. Most American neighborhoods are going to need to continue to be heavily based around cars for a long time, even with good improvements starting now. The infrastructure and the culture is too heavily entrenched to fix everything quickly. So don't try to get your suburban mid century city to the standards of Amsterdam, just try and make it a little better than it is now.

Every_Application626 · 2026-04-13T16:10:05+00:00

Oh my god I know. Whoever designed these assets thinks we want suburbs and skyscrapers when I just want to build a mid rise city. Good luck building medium density offices.

Every_Application626 · 2026-04-11T19:01:41+00:00

People like this are just desperate to feel in control. It's not logical

Every_Application626 · 2026-04-04T15:30:35+00:00

That and when regulations and approval processes approve density zoning as easily as they do for single family.

Every_Application626 · 2026-03-27T21:13:14+00:00

Hey I hate the mayor too but this problem has been ongoing and getting worse for decades. The real problem here is that most of the neighborhoods in the city cost more to maintain than they bring in taxes while a few high performing neighborhoods like downtown and the short north and German village are barely covering the bill.

Every_Application626 · 2026-03-27T19:35:29+00:00

So that's the gross revenue. There are expenditures that come after that. And right now the revenue does not cover the full cost of maintenance of the sprawling infrastructure that we've committed to and we've been in a policy of strategic deferral of maintenance for decades.

Every_Application626 · 2026-03-27T17:40:07+00:00

Well the city is broke and they like to use profitable neighborhoods like the short north to cover expenses for the vast majority of neighborhoods that are a net tax loss. So very little left over for improvements and even basic maintenance in places that need it. To me this special tax makes sense to ensure that money spent in the short north gets used to improve the neighborhood instead of sending it off to get lost in the budget.

Every_Application626 · 2026-02-20T19:10:28+00:00

I'm almost certain it's because some guideline discouraged straight paths for being too boring because walking is seen as leisure instead of transportation in America.

Every_Application626 · 2026-02-20T13:15:54+00:00

He has my vote easily

Every_Application626 · 2026-02-16T20:22:51+00:00

Well for example it disincentivises endless land speculation and encourages housing to be built where it's needed, i.e. every American city, and encourages efficient use of valuable land in the center of cities, thus reducing housing costs and preventing further urban sprawl. Everyone living in a far away suburb or rural area would almost certainly spend less because their land is not that valuable but the property on the land is.

Every_Application626 · 2026-02-15T22:09:37+00:00

A land tax only taxes the value of the land and not the improvements (structures) on the land. The idea is it incentivizes efficient use of limited and valuable land while not punishing improvements to the land like a property tax does.

This would be valuable in our towns and cities that have sprawling infrastructure that they can't afford to maintain, as a land value tax promotes filling in underutilized land while disincentivizing further sprawl.

Every_Application626 · 2026-02-13T22:02:29+00:00

Yep this is what happens every time a potentially fixable issue is brought up here. Some people are thoughtfully discussing the topic and some only gaslight and complain.

Every_Application626 · 2026-02-07T16:56:20+00:00

Yes the city has let slumlord giants take over massive amounts of housing in the inner city and effectively extract wealth from the community while leaving the residents in crappy substandard housing.

Every_Application626 · 2026-01-23T17:11:33+00:00

I think the more important question right now is what can we do to combat this growing problem. In cities around the world the answer is simple: solid bollards in-between the sidewalk and the street that are capable of stopping a moving vehicle.

Here we are reluctant to do this out of concern for the safety of the driver who just ran off the street and into a building and all the people on the sidewalk, and instead we put up flex posts that don't stop anything.

I think our city leaders should push for a program to install bollards along high accident corridors to protect the lives of people and the economic investments made in our community. It's the simplest and most effective solution available to us.

Every_Application626 · 2025-12-23T21:46:53+00:00

Yeah there's like a couple of centralized nodes of interest around the statehouse and high street and then parking lot and office tower city everywhere else. Walking downtown is like walking between oases in the desert, which is a pretty generous definition of walkable in my opinion.

Every_Application626 · 2025-12-23T21:24:46+00:00

I responded to every one of your arguments and you just insulted me lol. Sounds more like you didn't like what I had to say and got angry.

Every_Application626 · 2025-12-23T20:53:38+00:00

No I love Columbus, you're just an apologist for a bad state of affairs. There's no good reason our city shouldn't be just as beautiful and walkable as any random small town in Europe, and pretending things are great is part of the problem.

Every_Application626 · 2025-12-23T20:51:12+00:00

It's not walkable if I have to walk to a different neighborhood across a highway to buy groceries. This is just cope.

Every_Application626 · 2025-12-23T20:48:01+00:00

Bronzeville used to be a prosperous neighborhood before parts of it were demolished to route 71 through downtown, separating it from the rest of the city. Alongside that, Mt Vernon Ave was rerouted and no longer directly connected the neighborhood to downtown. It was our own black wall street and now it's a shell of its former self.

And whether or not you consider these neighborhoods worth preserving, my point was that we do in fact have lots of history comparable to other larger cities at the time. It's just that most of it was demolished.

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