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The number one thing we need is more pride in our community. We are the 3rd largest city in the Midwest, 15th in the country and the 31st largest metro area, but look how often the local media, companies and residents refer to Columbus as Columbus, Ohio. We need a swagger like they have in Texas.
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What Columbus Needs - 2011 Edition
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melikecheese
Merion Village
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I would add better connections with our history.
So many of our roads and hoods are named after founders of the city, yet its very hard to find anyone who knows this and any reference to who and why. For some reason 1 trip to Austin and I knew just why Lamar Blvd was named that and why so many other streets had their names.
OK, and maybe a conference / convention center that can actually book some large events, well more then 1. I keep up with tech conferences and I have been to a lot of random places to go to conferences, but downtown Columbus could have supported all of them.
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melikecheese
Merion Village
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Oh and how about an initiative to employ the homeless how already pull the cans and bottles out of the trash? Who needs bins when people already separate it at the trash bin for their own profit?
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byJody
Rural NW Columbus
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- Downtown Bike Lanes and Cycle tracks
- Convert some car parking spots to bike corrals
- More Food Carts/Trucks
- More Breakfast All Day spots
- Camping and Bike services along the Ohio to Erie Trail - Franklin County Section http://www.ohiotoerietrail.org/Maps.aspx
- Open Streets Day http://openstreetsmpls.com/
- Point to point Bike Share System
- Bike Action Park: (Cyclocross, BMX course, Velodrome, Bike Polo; Also Roller Derby and Skate bowl)
- A good hockey team (with a self-sustaining business model)
- Summer time: A swimming pool for adults with a swim up bar; musical entertainment; High Dive shows
- Toy and Tool Library
- Marriage Equality
- Free Wifi in outdoor open spaces (city wide)
- Paint and/or light the railroad bridge near North Bank. (it's ugly)
- Downtown Hostel near CCAD and Columbus State
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BCNation
Franklin Park
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^^ There might be a hostel coming to Olde Towne East where the Ohio Arts Council once lived on Main & Allen.
david161, I went to a CYP Speaker Breakfast to hear Alex Fischer of the Columbus Partnership speak last fall, and he said the exact same thing, that Columbus is oft-called "Columbus, Ohio". Nothing new.
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dave225
Clintonville
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*More incentives for medium/small (50-100 staff) business to set up shop in the neighborhoods in columbus, instead of office parks in the suburbs. (encourages walking/biking to work, which means walking past retail businesses & stopping in.)
*Narrower streets & better public transportation (look at bike lanes in Copenhagen. Look at bus lanes in Bogota.) Slower speed limits in the city.
*Change city, county & state government to be "can do" facilitators of ideas & growth instead of bureaucracies staffed by people who aren't trained to be helpful and managed by people who can't be fired for incompetence.
*draw in more light manufacturing and "doer" jobs.
*City should be permitted to "take" abandoned properties and perpetually out of code buildngs. (Rockford, IL does this.)Posted 6 months ago # -
byJody
Rural NW Columbus
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dave225 said:
*Change city, county & state government to be "can do" facilitators of ideas & growth instead of bureaucracies staffed by people who aren't trained to be helpful and managed by people who can't be fired for incompetence.I feel like the citizens hold a "Mac" vision of our city, and it is managed by a "PC" Government System.
PS - @BCNation great to hear about the Olde Towne East Hostel.
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lifeontwowheels
Highland West
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What Columbus needs? Columbus needs to think on a higher level. Spend 5 minutes on Street Films and we are well behind the curve in how we think and approach infrastructure and development.
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byJody
Rural NW Columbus
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What Columbus Needs – A Little Less Bickering
November 16, 2011
by Andrew Miller
I think Columbus, and the whole country, needs one thing more than anything else. We need to stop bickering and start working. Because working together, to accomplish great things, is what has always made our country exceptional – and I believe we need that now more than ever.
READ MORE: http://beta.wosu.org/news/2011/11/16/what-columbus-needs-a-little-less-bickering/Posted 6 months ago #
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