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The Scioto River Greenway Redevelopment Plan - News & Updates
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Chris Sherman
East Franklinton
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The current boundaries for franklinton are the river to the north 70 to the east 70 to the south, a small strip along Harmon and depending on who you talk to the river to the east or the first set of tracks along starling. If a legitament purposal was on the table to rename east franklinton there would be a war, trust me. I'm sure planning firms can't wait to rename this..
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CalebR
Lincoln Village
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Chris Sherman wrote >>
The current boundaries for franklinton are the river to the north 70 to the east 70 to the south, a small strip along Harmon and depending on who you talk to the river to the east or the first set of tracks along starling. If a legitament purposal was on the table to rename easy franklinton there would be a war, trust me.Seems I have yo show you.... here is the FTON sign at 315.
AND if you looked at my proposed boundary! Well Look at that! Some spot!
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Chris Sherman
East Franklinton
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I know where the sign is. That sign currently does not indicate a boundary. It's to let people traveling west on broad and exiting 315 know that they are in franklinton. What I'm explaining is renaming east franklinton is a bad idea and would be met with hostility from current residents. East franklinton is the original settlement of central Ohio why on earth would someone want to change the name.
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CalebR
Lincoln Village
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Chris Sherman wrote >>
I know where the sign is. That sign currently does not indicate a boundary. It's to let people traveling west on broad and exiting 315 know that they are in franklinton. What I'm explaining is renaming east franklinton is a bad idea and would be met with hostility from current residents. East franklinton is the original settlement of central Ohio why on earth would someone want to change the name.So why hasn't the sign been relocated so people don't get the impression that the boundary is at SR-315?
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Chris Sherman
East Franklinton
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Sigh.... I sat on the area commission for almost 2 years, I have been in this neighborhood for 8 years trust me when I tell you, 315 is not a current boundary.
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CalebR
Lincoln Village
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Chris Sherman
East Franklinton
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I'm lying in bed on my iPhone so this is the best I can do.
http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/Franklinton/map
Just because a sign is posted does not always indicate the boundary. Linden is a good example of that. I'm going to assume the location of the large franklinton sign was chosen because a. It was available land. And b. It serves as a indicator to folks exiting 315. If you drive west on broad past vets you will see a welcome to franklinton sign painted on the rail bridge. The scioto peninsula was taken over by downtown shortly after cosi moved. Some still consider that fton though.
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Chris Sherman
East Franklinton
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Chris Sherman
East Franklinton
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were you really asking me a question? kinda read like a statement.
calebr wrote "Did i just not say that SR 315 is the barrier for Franklinton.. even the sign is located there."
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MichaelC
Short North
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The Dispatch offers some encouraging signs that this might actually get done, albeit in stages:
The city is moving forward with a $360 million, 170-foot-deep tunnel that by the end of 2014 is to all but stop the overflows south of I-670. The 20-foot diameter, 4-mile-long tunnel will hold enough runoff and sewage that engineers expect just one overflow Downtown in 10 years once it's in place, said George Zonders, a spokesman for the Columbus Department of Public Utilities. Now, multiple overflows pollute the river each year.
The tunnel is part of a $2.5billion, 40-year project mandated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to stop overflows into the Scioto and Olentangy rivers throughout the city.
Sewer-plant improvements and another, shorter collector tunnel have already improved the quality of the water south of Downtown, said Bob Gable, scenic rivers coordinator with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. "The Scioto downstream of Columbus is getting darters and blue suckers and other rare species beginning to come back," he said.
Plans for the dams are less settled.
Columbus is planning to contribute $50,000 toward a study of removing the Main Street dam, Zonders said, with another $100,000 expected from the Columbus Downtown Development Corp., the nonprofit group that managed the construction of the Scioto Mile.
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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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Scioto River Recreation Boosts Business
11:08AM
September 2, 2011
by Sam Hendren
89.7 NPR News ReporterThe Scioto Mile is turning out to be a popular downtown Columbus destination. But there are miles of the Scioto River upstream that have been popular for years. And at the O’Shaughnessy Reservoir there’s a quiet business renaissance underway.
Anthony Sasson paddles his canoe down the Scioto River just below Griggs Reservoir. It’s here that the Scioto is, for just a few miles, a wild river again; one that very few people in Columbus have ever seen. It’s a very different river, says Sasson, from the one that passes by the Scioto Mile.
READ MORE: http://beta.wosu.org/news/2011/09/02/scioto-river-recreation-boosts-business/
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News
Columbus Underground
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From here: http://www.columbusceo.com/features/article_59ec2544-625b-11e1-b33a-0019bb30f31a.html
Also on the agenda for Capitol South/CDDC: working toward a fix for the Scioto River as it flows through Downtown. The theory is that the river is artificially wide and shallow at least in part because of a dam at Main Street, Taylor says. A feasibility study, due in January, will address whether dam removal is possible and how it could impact the river and its water quality. Supporters say taking out the dam could open the Scioto to recreational use and psychologically draw it closer to COSI, on the river’s west bank.
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swinzo1010
Upper Arlington
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From last week....
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/03/29/dam-could-give-way-to-parkland.html
It sounds like there might be something officially announced on this at 12:00 today.
From 19 hours ago @DispatchTheCity
@DougCaruso told you about the $35M Downtown river plan on Thursday. Officials will announce it tomorrowPosted 1 month ago # -
swinzo1010
Upper Arlington
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Another update - Downtown River plan to be released tomorrow
Posted 1 month ago # -
Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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Scioto River Greenway Plan Moving Forward
By: Walker
Two years ago, this project was a mere idea. Today, local leaders including Worley as well as Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman, Columbus City Council President Andrew J. Ginther, Franklin County Commissioners President Paula Brooks, Ohio EPA Director Scott Nally, Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director James Zehringer and several other community leaders issued a joint announcement about the feasibility, cost and timeline of the project as determined by a recently completed engineering study.
READ MORE: http://www.columbusunderground.com/scioto-river-greenway-plan-moving-forwardPosted 1 month ago #
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