I’m not the development authority, yet in the last month, three businesses have come to me asking for help, because the city just doesn’t seem to want to talk sensibly. We’ve had a “One Stop” permitting center for years, but now, we have the new and improved “Dayton Business Resource Center” On Monday, Feb. 9, Read More
Gotta love the people at the DDP, instead of working to build standardized parking rates, signs, and create a real parking infrastructure, with tax breaks for cooperation- they build a website. The Downtown Dayton Partnership launched a Web site Thursday to help people find parking in the city. The site, EasyParkDowntown.org, has an interactive map Read More
I’ve always said one of the problems in Dayton is our narrow definition of Downtown. I consider South Park, UD, Miami Valley Hospital, Grandview, the Dayton Art Institute, the Oregon District- all to be downtown- and have been laughed at for it. Now, apparently the idea has caught on: The effort is divided among three Read More
While the rest of us may have to cut our cable bill, eat meat less often, drive less and otherwise tighten our belts through the latest economic crunch, the three main Dayton unions aren’t willing to budge on pre-negotiated automatic raises. Unfortunately, we don’t have a Commission that knows how to advise a City Manager Read More
I’m glad Kevin Riley finally started reading esrati.com, he’s just starting to get a grasp on what I’ve been advocating for years (the redefining downtown was in my campaign lit the first time I ran – back in the late 80’s) These three issues are part of the solution, but, maybe the disbanding of the Read More
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