Projects to improve the neighborhoods around Ohio State
The neighborhoods around the Columbus campus of The Ohio State University are
densely populated with an older housing stock and narrow streets. To improve the
appearance and safety of the University District, the City of Columbus, Ohio State and
neighborhood organizations are working together on the following projects.
School children, parents and the elderly will be among the beneficiaries in the University District of projects which take Ohio State University students and faculty from the classroom and into the community.
The Campus Collaborative has made nine awards under the third annual University Neighborhoods Seed Grant Program. The awards, which average about $5,000 each, will support projects conducted in the neighborhoods around Ohio State's Columbus campus during the 1998-99 academic year.
"The purpose of this seed grant program is to encourage faculty members to take their teaching and research into these neighborhoods in ways that will engage students and people in the community," explains Michael Casto, director of the Campus Collaborative. "We expect these projects to be innovative learning experiences for our students, while at the same time improving the quality of life for everyone living in these neighborhoods."
The Campus Collaborative issued a request for proposals to university faculty last spring. A faculty committee reviewed the proposals and made the selections over the summer. The seed grant program was initiated as part of the revitalization plan for the University District prepared by Campus Partners.
The Campus Collaborative is the academic counterpart of Campus Partners and is composed representatives of some 40 colleges, departments and offices at Ohio State and seven community organizational affiliates. The collaborative focuses on issues of education, health care, employment, human services and student quality of life in the University District.
Click here to learn more about the Seed Grant Program. For more information, contact: Michael Casto, Ph.D., director of the Campus Collaborative, at (614) 292-5621 or campuscollab@osu.edu.
City sweeps the streets monthly
The city's Public Service Department regularly sweeps all streets in the
predominantly student neighborhood east of High Street and all arterial streets throughout
the University District. The sweeping is done on the second Thursday and second Friday of
each month from April through October. Parking is restricted from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the
north and east sides of the streets on Thursday and on the south and west sides on Friday.
Here is a map of the affected areas.
Vehicles left in the "no parking" zone during sweeping hours will be
ticketed and towed. Some 890 permanent signs warning of the monthly street sweeping have
been installed on the affected streets.
Ohio State offers parking without charge to residents who must move their vehicles for the
street sweeping on these days in the north riverbank lot on the west bank of the Olentangy
River between the Woody Hayes Drive and Lane Avenue bridges. No parking decal is required
to use this lot on these days.
The sweeping has the support of the University Area Commission, University District
Organization, University Community Association, University Community Business Association
and Campus Partners.
The only exception to the street sweeping program for the campus area is Neil Avenue from
Goodale to West 11th Avenue, which is swept on a schedule with Victorian Village. That
portion of Neil Avenue is swept twice monthly on the first and third Thursdays and
Fridays.
Other city streets are cleaned on an as-needed basis or in response to a resident's
request. All city streets receive attention twice each year. Residents who wish to notify
the Public Service Department's Engineering and Construction Division about a concern in
their area should call 645-8120.
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