A couple of proposals
A few ideas bouncing around seem worthy of further considerations, so put on your public policy thinking caps, even if it sounds dull.
Over at The Cincinnati Group, Greg wants a new school funding system in Ohio. He proposes that local districts get money from the state at the rate at which that district chooses to tax itself.
Gotta admit, I'm not entirely sure how this number would differ from how much a district sent to the state, but those high-property-value districts can simply raise more money at a lower rate. Not sure they'd want to be punished for that. Seems like the pot would be bigger, which is probably a good thing. But what about separating the idea of school funding from property taxes entirely?
Candidate Spencer, while taking umbrage with a City Beat rant, mentions his belief that the city of Cincinnati needs streetcars and soccer in Over-the-Rhine (among many other things, but I want to pick on those two).
If anybody can point me to previous proposals about those, I'd love to read them. I assume somebody wants to build a small soccer stadium. And I assume we're not talking about luring the Cincinnati Excite into the city. And while spectator sports are great, seems a community playfield would be at least as beneficial.
As for the streetcars, I don't know if anybody's talked about a route, but I seem to recall a shuttle service during the downtown tour of living but can't find a map anywhere. I'm thinking two loops, one on 4th and 7th and the other on Main and Race. Gotta connect the stadiums with the OTR bar district. If they could be San Francisco-style cable cars, so much the better.
Over at The Cincinnati Group, Greg wants a new school funding system in Ohio. He proposes that local districts get money from the state at the rate at which that district chooses to tax itself.
Gotta admit, I'm not entirely sure how this number would differ from how much a district sent to the state, but those high-property-value districts can simply raise more money at a lower rate. Not sure they'd want to be punished for that. Seems like the pot would be bigger, which is probably a good thing. But what about separating the idea of school funding from property taxes entirely?
Candidate Spencer, while taking umbrage with a City Beat rant, mentions his belief that the city of Cincinnati needs streetcars and soccer in Over-the-Rhine (among many other things, but I want to pick on those two).
If anybody can point me to previous proposals about those, I'd love to read them. I assume somebody wants to build a small soccer stadium. And I assume we're not talking about luring the Cincinnati Excite into the city. And while spectator sports are great, seems a community playfield would be at least as beneficial.
As for the streetcars, I don't know if anybody's talked about a route, but I seem to recall a shuttle service during the downtown tour of living but can't find a map anywhere. I'm thinking two loops, one on 4th and 7th and the other on Main and Race. Gotta connect the stadiums with the OTR bar district. If they could be San Francisco-style cable cars, so much the better.
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The streetcar plan was originally a part of the large light rail ballot initiative in 2002 (http://www.sorta.com/news/2002/nr015.html). The initiative failed, and the MetroMoves people I believe are now aiming for two parts of that plan: streetcars and I think the commuter rail line from downtown out towards Milford (http://www.cincypost.com/2004/06/11/okilede061104.html).
The streetcars would run north-south thru downtown connecting the riverfront to UC/hospital district. And there would another line connecting Cincinnati, Covington, and Newport riverfronts in a loop (probably similar to the Southbank shuttle routes).
I have no idea what the status of any of this is.
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