HBAC #102 - 'Letty 2: This Time it's Structural'

For this sequel we re-engage with Letty on projects old and new

• Ongoing engagement with the larger municipal development community on roundabouts and other traffic mitigation systems.

• Major Leap Road project south of Cemetery. The wide scope and lengthy timeline.

• Respecting neighborhoods with design that encourages the right kind of traffic behavior.

• The different eras of Hilliard neighborhood growth and trends.

• Latest on the sidewalk maintenance program and some street tree history.

• The development over the years of “mobility” as a guiding principle for Letty’s work and also the city’s ability to retain residents as they age.

• Trail Talk (tm) About the latest happenings regarding the Hellbranch and Heritage Trails multi-jurisdictional development.

• Pedestrian Safety & the phenomenon of cars driving straight into buildings.

• R O U N D A B O U T S

• Truman Boulevard Traffic and TruePointe Development.

• Wolpert Property and the differences between tech oriented commercial growth and residential development from a transport perspective.

• Cooperation and problem solving advantages within an administrative government where collaboration is encouraged and supported.

• A little talk about social reproduction and what it takes to make suburbs vital communities.

Thank you, Letty! We look forward to making it a trilogy!

HOWEVER

Ouch! We’re losing the studio…

We regularly discuss that it is better to know “where the bulldozers are going,” rather than be surprised by them. It’s even better still when you can play a part in directing those bulldozers.

Last week we kinda got bulldozed!

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Our friends and neighbors - Leather and Oak Spirits - are the recent recipients of the Hilliard Development Corporation’s “facade improvement grant.”

This $50,000 award was to be matched by ownership for work to be conducted renovating elements of 4057 Grant Street - the former Lee’s Catering. Tortilla owner Walter Eguez was also awarded a $50,000 grant in the same facade improvement category for the same address.

From the agenda of the February Member and Directors meeting 2025

This program aims to effect updates and materially improving the facilities of existing businesses growing in Hilliard

• The combined project has not developed as envisioned on Grant Street so Leather and Oak have decided to apply the grant to their present address, behind our street-facing unit, on Franklin Street.

• In order to effect the transformation and requiring street frontage our landlord has made it clear that our recording studio - will be a new whiskey tasting room, open to the public.

• We have been offered an internal transfer within the overall building - albeit into a much smaller unit - and we are currently evaluating our options so please continue to monitor these updates that we will nest within upcoming Beacon posts.
  
  Also, as a quick preview to our paid members we’re beginning our election coverage this week with interviews of every Democratic Primary candidate - beginning with Dr. Dorothy Hassan!
  
  Look for that program Wednesday!