Good Ideas

Springfield Housing Solutions Consortium: The City's Good Idea to Address Housing through Community Collaboration

Springfield Housing Solutions Consortium: The City's Good Idea to Address Housing through Community Collaboration

The Springfield Housing Solutions Consortium is a group of leaders from public, private, philanthropic, and financial sectors who are working together to address the City of Springfield’s housing needs – an issue area recognized by leaders in many sectors as the crucial missing piece for Springfield.

Insight2050 Corridor Concepts: Central Ohio’s Good Idea for Managing Population Growth

Insight2050 Corridor Concepts: Central Ohio’s Good Idea for Managing Population Growth

Insight2050 Corridor Concepts provides a proactive plan for population growth and development, over the next 30 years. The Central Ohio region is expected to grow by nearly one million new residents by the year 2050; this study examined current and future development patterns and offered specific strategies for absorbing much of the projected new population.

Good Idea for Affordable Housing & Transportation: Detroit Shoreway CDO & Greater Cleveland RTA’s Aspen Place Partnership

Good Idea for Affordable Housing & Transportation: Detroit Shoreway CDO & Greater Cleveland RTA’s Aspen Place Partnership

Launching a trailblazing collaboration, the Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization (DSCDO) and Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) joined forces to provide transportation options to the transit-oriented development (TOD) project, Aspen Place.

The Downtown CPass: COTA’s Good Idea

The Downtown CPass: COTA’s Good Idea

Good Ideas is a repository of exemplary initiatives and programs happening in Ohio. This month we have highlighted Central Ohio Transit Authority’s Downtown CPass. The CPass program has been an innovative and effective way of encouraging alternative transportation, reducing parking needs, and increasing COTA’s ridership.