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Update from Campus Partners:
Prepared for residents the University Area Commission
January 17, 2008
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University Area Safety Committee
meets ·
Citizens will help plan
Columbus's bicentennial ·
Gateway security helps victim, but
that crime didn't occur in garage ·
Code enforcement and refuse committees
will meet February 5 |
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University Area Safety Committee meets Public safety officials reported at the University
Area Safety Committee meeting on January 9 that there were no significant problems
in the predominantly student neighborhoods following the national
championship football game.
Columbus Police had restricted parking on several streets, and there
were no problems in the area with the parking ban. Several dumpster fires were set in an
area bounded by Woodruff, Blake, Neil and Indianola avenues. Two persons were arrested for setting
fires. Columbus Police Officer Carl Johnson, interim
community liaison officer for the fourth precinct, reported that police
officers participated in directed patrols during December to cut down on the
number of burglaries in the University District while students are away. The Community Crime Patrol also
devoted patrollers to this effort.
No persons were arrested, but officers followed a number of suspicious
persons and gathered information.
Officer Johnson also noted that auto thefts in the fourth precinct
spike in November and were lower in December, but still higher than normal. Tom Wildman told the committee that Old North
Columbus has experience a significant increase in burglaries. He also said this neighborhood has
experienced fewer parties in recent months, but more parties that have been
disruptive. The next meeting of the University Area Safety
Committee will be Wednesday, February 13, at 3:30 p.m. in the conference room
of Citizens will help plan The City of Columbus 2012 Commission is holding
the “Dream It Do It Citizen Summit” on Tuesday, January 29, in
the Columbus Convention Center Ballroom.
Registration and refreshments will be 5 to 6 p.m. with the program
from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Organizers
hope to draw 1,000 people to the citizen summit to hear about the
bicentennial plans and to provide information about community priorities. Participation in the citizen summit is free, but
you must register in advance at the following website,
http://columbus2012.org, or by calling (614) 424-6204. More information on the citizen summit
and the 2012 Commission is available on that website. The 2012 Commission includes a number of focus
areas for planning and activities.
Robert Caldwell, president of the Weinland Park Community Civic
Association, and Ellen Moore, executive director of the Community Crime Patrol,
are the co-chairs of the Safety Focus Area. Ian MacConnell, president of the
University Area Commission, also serves on that focus area. Gateway security helps victim, but that
crime didn't occur in garage Ohio State University Police issued a “crime
alert” late on January 16 regarding a robbery which had occurred about
8:45 p.m. The “crime
alert” erroneously reported that the robbery occurred in the parking
garage of South Campus Gateway. A white male, 18, came to the Gateway security
office, located in the Gateway garage, shortly before 9 p.m. on January 16 to
report that he had just been assaulted and robbed in the nearby
neighborhood. The security
office, which is staffed 24 hours a day, assisted the victim and alerted the
Columbus Division of Police. The
victim told the responding police officer that the robbery had occurred east
of the Gateway property in the east-west alley between Chittenden and East
11th avenues. Campus Partners regrets any crime that occurs in
the neighborhood around Code enforcement and refuse committees will meet
February 5 The University District Code Enforcement Task
Force and the Campus Partners Public Service Committee on refuse collection
and recycling will hold a joint meeting on Tuesday, February 5, in room 100
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