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Suburbs brace for impact
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
BY MARTIN ROZENMAN, DEAN NARCISO, JIM WOODS AND ALAYNA DEMARTINI
When Columbus starts talking about a financial emergency, suburban officials cast nervous glances over their shoulders. “Everybody gets concerned when Columbus has a bad year, since they’ve lifted us up in past years,” said Hilliard Finance Director Michelle Kelly-Underwood. “So goes Columbus, so goes the suburbs.”
Westerville, Pickerington and Pataskala want to increase income-tax rates to keep up with the rising costs of police and other services. Others aren’t far behind.
“Central Ohio does reasonably well” in tough times, Mahoney said, pointing to stagnant state and federal funding to cities and weak investment income. “But there’s a heck of a difference between Whitehall and Dublin.”
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I hope we’ll be able to hear the crunch from the downtown neighborhoods.
It’s been known for years that the typical suburban model is unsustainable on most fronts, I’m not sure why this is news.
Because everyone else is finally catching up to your wisdom! ;)
Because everyone else is finally catching up to your wisdom! ;)
’bout time! I’ve got some thoughts on other topics while “everyone” is listening. :lol:
It’s been known for years that the typical suburban model is unsustainable on most fronts, I’m not sure why this is news.
what’s up with the unnecessary hatin’ on suburbanites?
you should be nice to suburbanites. they work tirelessly in your downtown office buildings to provide your income tax revenues. then they take their meager earnings and invest them right back into your neighborhoods. have you seen their waistlines?! they guarantee success for your favorite restaurants.
all this and they are nice enough to keep their snotty kids out of your schools. plus, they don’t even vote in your elections, for goodness sake.
poor suburbanites.
do you know how hard it is to resist the temptation to run over 10 scooterists when you’ve been searching for a parking spot for 4.5 hours?! I just want to get to the NORTH MARKET AND GET ONE OF THOSE HOG DOGS, GAWD!
wow.
That was an incredible outburst. There’s a small tear quivering on the edge of my eyelid…oop! There it goes!
But the real question here is: What is the crunchiest suburb? Though not a separate municipality… Clintonville?
Maybe, you and some of those suburbanites would consider voting “Yes” the next time light rail shows up on the ballot?
Also, I notice that was only your 7th post. Welcome to CU!
Clintonville is not a suburb.
Clintonville is not a suburb.
Seems like Clintonville fits the description of a suburb to me.
If Clintonville is a suburb, then so are German Village and Victorian Village.
No.
Clintonville is not a suburb.
It is pretty suburban in function in and some of its form. And I also stated that I understand that it is not a seprate municipality from the legal City of Columbus.
Please give me your definition of a suburb. A suburb is a word that is used different ways.
To some it is a seperate legal jurisdiction that is some way a satillite to a greater legal jurisdiction.
Others, like me see a suburb as a certain spatial-style different from that of an urban space or rural space. It is a matter of function, form, and dimensions.
My definition? I know of no definition of the word suburb that describes Clintonville.
Clintonville could be classified as a first-ring suburb, similar to Grandview, Bexley, etc. When those neighborhoods were built, they were absolutely known as suburbs. Now, since they are older and somewhat urban in nature, we may not classify them under our current definitions of suburban, and therefore, suburbs. Plus, for a lot of people it is inconcievable for a suburb to be walkable and somewhat mixed-use, such as Clintonville.
I think our current notion of “suburban” brings to mind larger lots, garages up front instead of on the rear alley, and variance from the grid system.
I think our current notion of “suburban” brings to mind larger lots, garages up front instead of on the rear alley, and variance from the grid system.
Olde Towne East was originally a streetcar suburb, Bexley came later. That would make OTE an OS and Bexley a second-ring suburb. 8)
My definition? I know of no definition of the word suburb that describes Clintonville. My definition is a development style with an auto centric emphasis. It has less to do with the density, aesthetics and craftsmanship but all of these also play into it.
Na, Rush Creek Village. The good Mr. Captain Crunch Dritz also lives in that immediate area. I don’t know, Simply Living is pretty crunchy, so that scores some points for Clintonville, as does the CoOP. But nothing compares to Rush Creek.
Does Clintonville have its own government and school system that is completely independent of Columbus? If it does, then it’s a suburb. If it doesn’t (and I think this is the case), it’s merely a neighborhood within the city limits. Yes, it’s definitely a neighborhood with its own character. Brooklyn definitely has its own character, but it’s still part of New York City and under Michael Bloomberg’s government.
No, I live in the Columbus Public School District.