I ultimately don't think it's realistic nor prudent to try to "stay rural" in a suburb of the state capitol and a metro area of over 2 million and rising. Living near downtown Columbus and relatively close to the OSU campus is never going to realistically come with rural small town feel. That's where you start looking for an exurb somewhere a bit further out. Hilliard has cosplayed as a small town for as long as it can reasonably expect to do so and still meet the needs and expectations of our residents. It's time for Hilliard to evolve or flounder and be passed by. And, realistically, no builder wants to build a 250k home when they can slap a 450k house on the same lot. This notion that we can build a swarm of Darby Glen style subdivisions at 2009-2011 prices is a pipedream. More detached homes sounds swell, but we need to be able to infill and go vertical to expand the housing supply of you want those houses to be affordable. Supply and demand rules over all of these expansion v. NIMBY conversations.
Really liked hearing some talk about wards again. Feels like anything that drives engagement would be great.
I do not think the topic of honesty and integrity in communication was doing JT favors. I think he ultimately knows Les and gang are being less than totally transparent in order to win elections on the back of ragebait, and Jordan makes a tremendous point that there will have to be serious fence-mending and bridge-building after the Save Hilliard campaign went so scorched earth on the well-meaning council members and community members who helped draft this plan. Doing so with a level of dishonesty and disinformation that would make Roger Stone smile isn't going to make that job easy, either.
I wish JT well, despite hoping for other candidates' ultimate success. There's no place for the toxic rhetoric and threats he experienced, even if I fundamentally disagree with him at a core level. Even if I believe it's misguided or wrong, I do believe there's a sincere urge to do good for this community. Hopefully, Hilliard continues to grow and thrive as a community both of our families can live in and enjoy for years to come.
Don't have a really strong opinion on Amtrack but I think what sounded like a characterization of train travelers as transient zombies that stumble around the streets is a bit silly ( listen carefully to the wording and tone ). My experience is that bus travelers are by necessity lower priced transient people movers and useful as such, but train travel is a much more expensive ( sadly ) form of tourism. In other words, people who are going someplace for a reason and have money to leave behind. I doubt that folks are going to get off a stop so near a hub as a destination, but if there are attractive useful services that serve the local community nearby and easily accessible, they could easily benefit from folks needing a break.
I ultimately don't think it's realistic nor prudent to try to "stay rural" in a suburb of the state capitol and a metro area of over 2 million and rising. Living near downtown Columbus and relatively close to the OSU campus is never going to realistically come with rural small town feel. That's where you start looking for an exurb somewhere a bit further out. Hilliard has cosplayed as a small town for as long as it can reasonably expect to do so and still meet the needs and expectations of our residents. It's time for Hilliard to evolve or flounder and be passed by. And, realistically, no builder wants to build a 250k home when they can slap a 450k house on the same lot. This notion that we can build a swarm of Darby Glen style subdivisions at 2009-2011 prices is a pipedream. More detached homes sounds swell, but we need to be able to infill and go vertical to expand the housing supply of you want those houses to be affordable. Supply and demand rules over all of these expansion v. NIMBY conversations.
Really liked hearing some talk about wards again. Feels like anything that drives engagement would be great.
I do not think the topic of honesty and integrity in communication was doing JT favors. I think he ultimately knows Les and gang are being less than totally transparent in order to win elections on the back of ragebait, and Jordan makes a tremendous point that there will have to be serious fence-mending and bridge-building after the Save Hilliard campaign went so scorched earth on the well-meaning council members and community members who helped draft this plan. Doing so with a level of dishonesty and disinformation that would make Roger Stone smile isn't going to make that job easy, either.
I wish JT well, despite hoping for other candidates' ultimate success. There's no place for the toxic rhetoric and threats he experienced, even if I fundamentally disagree with him at a core level. Even if I believe it's misguided or wrong, I do believe there's a sincere urge to do good for this community. Hopefully, Hilliard continues to grow and thrive as a community both of our families can live in and enjoy for years to come.
Don't have a really strong opinion on Amtrack but I think what sounded like a characterization of train travelers as transient zombies that stumble around the streets is a bit silly ( listen carefully to the wording and tone ). My experience is that bus travelers are by necessity lower priced transient people movers and useful as such, but train travel is a much more expensive ( sadly ) form of tourism. In other words, people who are going someplace for a reason and have money to leave behind. I doubt that folks are going to get off a stop so near a hub as a destination, but if there are attractive useful services that serve the local community nearby and easily accessible, they could easily benefit from folks needing a break.