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Costs of Development Impact Rocks NW Franklin, Picktown Next?

Creative Solutions Explored, Apply to Pickerington Area?

All Quotes from the Columbus Dispatch, link to full article below.


Dominion Homes, one of three developers proposing to build 2,000 homes along Cosgray and Hayden Run roads over the next seven years, is prepared to help pay for new roads in the area, attorney George McCue said.

The area already needs a new connector between Cosgray and Avery roads, and Dominion is "prepared to pay a fair portion of the improvements that need to be made," McCue said.

Three developments, including Dominion’s, in the Columbus portion of the corridor have been held up pending the outcome of the MORPC study.

"We’ve already evaluated creating some sort of authority for paying for traffic improvements," McCue said.

Planners Look at New Ways of Doing Things

"Maybe we have the possibility of creating a new way of doing things," said Sam Staley of the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions. "The recognition that growth creates impacts that cross jurisdictions is a very important one."

Reality Sets In as the New Way may be a LONG WAY OFF

Now that the traffic study is done, Crissinger worries developers will be back on the fast track.

"I’m sure Columbus is going to see this as a green light to push this through with little regard to the impact," she said.

"I’m not comfortable with them going ahead with zoning until they have the funds committed to pay for infrastructure."

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The Columbus Dispatch