As temperatures throughout Columbus soared into the 90s early this week, some residents began noticing a new summertime smell reeking garbage, left baking in receptacles lining streets and alleys.
Residents in some areas are complaining the problem is the result of delayed and inconsistent garbage collection by the city.
Columbus refuse administrator Tim Swauger said there has been no rise in complaints to 311 about the city Public Service Department s garbage collection. But in some neighborhoods across the city, such as the Hilltop and Southern Orchards, residents say they have been going weeks or even months without consistent garbage pickup.
Simon Dallas has lived in the Hilltop for just over a year. And throughout his time in the neighborhood, he said it has lacked a consistent garbage pickup on schedule.
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The last days of Kossuth Street Garden
Established by Michael Doody in 2007, the South Side community garden is being shuttered to make way for a new housing development following a prolonged fight
Columbus Alive
About five months ago, when he realized that Kossuth Street Garden would not be saved, Michael Doody, a former journalist and now private investigator, distracted himself by starting on a children’s book with the working title
The Life and Death of a Community Garden, a process that Doody termed therapeutic.
Though geared to children, the ending, as described by Doody, is one filled with horror, the garden gasping what it knows are its dying breaths. “Is this how humans treat each other?” she asks, finally giving in and releasing her spirit as the book draws to a close.
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In this town, it s no surprise developer wins out over community garden
The Dispatch reports that a property developer is evicting a community garden near Children’s Hospital (Tuesday, Community garden to be displaced by 10 new homes in South Side neighborhood near Nationwide Children s Hospital ). The top part of the article lays out the developer’s arguments for this eviction; it is not until much further down that Michael Doody of the community garden expresses his considered opinion that “the development isn t about providing affordable housing, because (the developer) plans to sell the houses for up to $300,000 each.”
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A local place for growing vegetables and herbs, building community and healing social wounds could be in peril because a developer wants to build affordable housing on the land.
Kossuth Street Garden occupies roughly 11,700 square feet at the southwest corner of Kossuth and East 17th Street in the Southern Orchards neighborhood east of German Village and Schumacher Place.
In documents filed with the city of Columbus, East Kossuth LLC wants to build 10 affordable-housing units with detached garages on the entire 0.9-acre property that is bounded by Kossuth, East 17th, an alley and Ann Street.
The address of the lot is 641 E. Kossuth St.
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