City Council

Today I, along with several members of my local neighborhood associaiton www.klbna.org , are visiting City Hall to try to do some good in the neighborhood.
We've been fighting with the powers that be for about one year now in regard to a vacant lot in our neighborhood at Hamilton and Long Streets.
The Mayor's office has been touting an office building on this corner for some time. Mayor Coleman has been taking credit for the building for at least that long although not one spade of dirt has been overturned.
The funny thing is, no one asked us residents about what we would like to see housed on that corner. Certainly not an office building that will add nothing to our neighborhood in the way of tax base, voting residents activity after five o'clock. There must be a better place for Police Internal Affairs and the city's Weights and Measures department to be housed, at tax payer's expense, for prime dollars -- especially in an age of unprecedented office vacancies in downtown proper.
So today a year of work culminates in a meeting to see who will control the land, KLBNA or the developers whose idea still doesn't have funding, only political ties downtown.

Did you know the city's land bank has available lots that can be leased for as little a one Dollar per year and vacant homes in need of rehab real cheap? Check it out: http://td.ci.columbus.oh.us/Land%20Management/index.htm

Although this has nothing to do with real estate in columbus or www.CentralOhioRealty.com , here is a link i discovered recently that lists columbus area wi-fi hot spots: