Restoring Prosperity
The Greater Ohio Policy Center Blog
Concretely, those counties and regions that are not expected to experience long-term population growth should not be taking on any new long-term infrastructure costs in the form of new roads or new utilities. We should not encumber future ratepayers with the costs of maintaining and repairing additional infrastructure.
On December 11, GOPC presented recommendations for ways to improve the proposed rules for the All Ohio Future Fund, a new state program that would invest $750 million in the development of new job sites across the state.
The 60’s and 70’s saw similar anti-urban crisis as 2020, where urban decline fueled an exodus of residents and businesses rather than fear of contagion. In an effort to draw individuals back, several U.S. cities followed a trend long popular in Europe and began shutting down streets to vehicular traffic to create pedestrian-only zones.
The Brookings Institute has released a report series, Building resilient rural places: Strategies from local leaders to strengthen rural assets, diversity, and dynamism, to refocus our attention on better understanding rural America and the “hyperlocal strategies” taking place to increase their growth and diversity.
