Hi friends, thanks for opening up today’s newsletter. I’m sending it a bit earlier so you can send a letter to Save McCoy Park.

Things you can do in person

• Linden Green Line Open House
  Wednesday, April 22, 4:30PM-7:30PM
  Linden Community Center
  

Columbus Recreation and Parks invites you to the second Linden Green Line Community Open House. Join us for an interactive workshop to explore potential designs for the proposed seven-mile linear park connecting the North Linden, South Linden, Northland, North Central and Northeast neighborhoods.

Your input will help guide key decisions around park programming, safety and amenities. This is an opportunity to respond to early concepts, share what matters most to you and help shape a design that reflects the needs and priorities of the community.

More information here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/linden-green-line-open-house-tickets-1986441340523?utm-campaign

• A Big River Cleanup- Confluence Park-Community Trash Cleanup
  Saturday, April 25, 10AM-2PM
  679 W Spring St, Columbus, OH
  Trash Party is planning to host an event downtown on Saturday, April 25 to clean up along the Scioto river. We will be partnering with Green Columbus, SWAG, and FLOW volunteer groups. Please consider volunteering!
  
  Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddluh8V57ARrP0tpSXmhJ8zXpLiFZMtg-dcE34sUNRbXt3Jw/viewform

• COTA'S SHORT-RANGE TRANSIT PLAN PUBLIC MEETINGS

  Join us at one of five in-person meetings or a virtual session to learn about the draft 2027-2031 Short-Range Transit Plan and share your feedback.

  West Side — April 27 5:30–7:30 p.m. Mid-Ohio Farm on the Hilltop 140 N. Wheatland Ave., Columbus, OH 43223

  Northwest — April 28 5:30–7:30 p.m. Bob Crane Community Center (Event Room) 3200 Tremont Rd., Upper Arlington, OH 43221

  Northeast — April 29 5:30–7:30 p.m. Huntington Empowerment Center 780 Mt. Vernon Ave., Columbus, OH 43205

  Downtown — April 29 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. COTA Board Room 33 N. High St., Columbus, OH 43215

  South Side — April 30 5:30–7:30 p.m. Columbus Metropolitan Library – Driving Park Branch 1422 E. Livingston Ave., Columbus, OH 43205

  Virtual Meeting — April 30 Noon–1:30 p.m. Via Teams at bit.ly/SRTP-Virtual

  Learn more and share your feedback at: https://cota.com/srtp/

• The War on Cars Live Show
  Tuesday, April 28, 6:30PM-8:00PM
  Wexner Center for the Arts, 1871 N High St
  

  

  Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear, hosts of the acclaimed The War on Cars podcast, have published a book called Life After Cars. They'll be joining Stevie Pasamonte from Transit Columbus, Columbus City Councilmember Lourdes Barroso de Padilla, and co-founder of Columbus Underground Walker Evans for what promises to be an engaging conversation about reimagining our streets and cities.
  
  Whether you're a longtime listener or new to the movement, this is your chance to hear directly from two of the most compelling voices in the urbanism world right here in Columbus.
  
  Tickets here: https://my.wexarts.org/6613/6614
  

Things you can do online

• Tell Columbus City Council: Save McCoy Park, vote NO on the billionaires' giveaway

  There's no clearer example of Columbus City Council's complete unresponsiveness to the needs of our neighborhoods than the proposed giveaway of a Southside community park and $50,000,000 of taxpayer dollars to Jimmy and Dee Haslam in an attempt to lure a women's soccer team to Columbus.

  Tell the City Council today: vote NO on this bad deal.

• Tell City Council NO, back Our City Our Say

I have a lot of thoughts on this, but I’ll keep it short here for now. City council sees the excellent work that Our City Our Say is doing and they are scared. They are scared of losing power. They are going to offer this “compromise” but do not fall for it. Check out https://ourcityoursay.com/ on how to get involved and bring true democracy to our city council.

• Tell Columbus Metropolitan Library to stop their anti-union campaign
  Librarians and library workers at Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) are coming together to form our union. We deserve a voice in the policies that affect us, and we will use that collective voice to make our library system stronger, more accessible, and more equitable.

  Rather than respect the choice of a supermajority of workers, CML management has decided to oppose our union by sharing anti-union propaganda that is more typical of a for-profit company, not a public institution.

  Stand with us and tell our CEO and Board of Trustees to stop all anti-union communications and not waste any more library resources or funds opposing the formation of our union.

• West Broad Street Transit-Oriented Development Plan Public Survey
  We want to hear about what you love about your neighborhood, what’s “missing” in terms of services and amenities and what you want your community to look like in the future to provide the framework for this plan.
  

  Survey
  

Things I’m reading/watching:

• Local Politics: City Council votes today on plans to turn McCoy Park into an NWSL training facility from Matter News

• Stauf’s Coffee Roasters workers announce their intent to form a union from Matter News

• Push to bring passenger rail back to Ohio gains momentum at Columbus summit from ABC6

• Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters from Signal Ohio
  

Have a great day everyone!

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