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New commission’s boundaries questioned
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
By DAVID J. CROSS
A minor misunderstanding between the German Village Area Commission and the proposed Livingston Avenue Area Task Force is still being worked through.
At a Columbus City Council meeting last month, members of the task force — which is in the process of becoming an area commission — proposed a boundary that included property along Livingston Avenue up to Interstate 70, directly across from the German Village Area Commission.
Katharine Moore, executive director for the German Village Society, said the village’s commission and her non-profit opposed the boundaries because the German Village Area Commission planned to extend its own purview into the area once Columbus finalized plans for a cap in the area.
“With the way (the city officials) are talking about redoing the freeway and taking out the ramp so that there wouldn’t be a ramp at Fourth Street, that could all become developable property and we don’t want to see a pharmacy across from Katzinger’s (Delicatessen),” Moore said.
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Sigh. Here we go again.
OH MY GOD!!!!! NOT A….PHARMACY!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!! :lol:
Seriously – did she not come off like a huge turd? You can’t have that, I call firstsies. And what are really the odds a pharmacy woulg go there? If she wanted to make people scared, she should have said carryout :twisted:
Wait – and how can something that hasn’t even been built yet be a part of a “historic” district? I just don’t get it.
QFT I was thinking the same thing
Meh. If you want to get technical, the highway replaced buildings that were in the German-built portion of the south end, so building new things on a cap there is essentially replacing what was destroyed of German Village about a half-century ago.
Beck Place is a new development that is inside the GV historic boundaries, and there are plenty of other individual houses that have been build and infilled in the past few years.
I think the GVS folks have the best of intentions for wanting to maintain some sort of standards with what abuts their neighborhood, but with looking at the 670 cap as an example, I don’t think they’ll need to worry too much about unsightly development.
I just get tired of the GVS folks horrible NIMBYism. And this isn’t even their back yard. One reason I moved out of German Village into Merion Village. Now I can admire the historic charm from 3 doors down and paint my house purple if I want to.