In 2019, The 614 for Linden received a $5 million grant as a national winner of JPMorgan Chase’s Partnerships for Raising Opportunity in Neighborhoods (PRO Neighborhoods) competition. Columbus was one of only seven winning submissions in this round, out of 75 applications covering 49 cities.
Dangerous by Design relies on state pedestrian crash data, which is processed and released by the federal government. This data has only been released through 2019, meaning that there is no nationwide, pedestrian-specific data for 2020, a year which saw a 13% decrease in driving overall.
Because lawmakers took the unusual step of negotiating changes to the budget while it was still pending in the Senate, passage of the revised Senate budget will likely avoid the need for a conference committee
GOPC congratulates Affordable Housing Trust of Columbus and Franklin County and Finance Fund Capital Corporation for their great work in the state of Ohio!
In 2020, a number of communities across the state contemplated establishing designated outdoor refreshment areas (DORAs) in 2020 and we expect more DORA districts to be created in 2021.