So! I'll spare you all the details of the 2.5 hour city hall meeting where it was agreed that Columbus needed to adopt a plan for pedestrian and cycling accommodations on streets. It turns out that the group that put together the proposal started in 2004, about a year and a half before i got to Columbus. Even though i wasn't here when the process started i heard quite a bit about it from people i knew that were on the committee.
The part that was good for me to sit through was the public hearing part. I actually feel pretty proud to be a person from Columbus today because there was a lot of people there that had considerable issues with the details of the plan and how it would be applied to THEIR front yard. However, it seems to me that it took a very aware city council to determine that it wasn't the Plan that these people were opposing, it was the details and application, which are all subject to change based on timing, funding, location, etc.
One of the City Hall members even went so far as to say that when he'd lived other places that had accommodations like these, their property values went up and it improved their quality of life. This i was pleased to hear, and if i'd have been a good enough orator i would have stood up, and explained that i live in the city of Columbus, and i work in an annexed portion of Columbus about 5 mile south of town and that it should be the goal of this plan to provide people like me the facilities to get everywhere i need on my bike, including the place i work. Also bringing up, and sprinkling in to my speech about all the improvements of lifestyle, and well being of all tax payers. Either way it passed and has another hearing in about a month on April 6th.
Thanks,
Jake
The part that was good for me to sit through was the public hearing part. I actually feel pretty proud to be a person from Columbus today because there was a lot of people there that had considerable issues with the details of the plan and how it would be applied to THEIR front yard. However, it seems to me that it took a very aware city council to determine that it wasn't the Plan that these people were opposing, it was the details and application, which are all subject to change based on timing, funding, location, etc.
One of the City Hall members even went so far as to say that when he'd lived other places that had accommodations like these, their property values went up and it improved their quality of life. This i was pleased to hear, and if i'd have been a good enough orator i would have stood up, and explained that i live in the city of Columbus, and i work in an annexed portion of Columbus about 5 mile south of town and that it should be the goal of this plan to provide people like me the facilities to get everywhere i need on my bike, including the place i work. Also bringing up, and sprinkling in to my speech about all the improvements of lifestyle, and well being of all tax payers. Either way it passed and has another hearing in about a month on April 6th.
Thanks,
Jake
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