Loveland, Ohio – With Halloween right around the corner, it only seems right to take YOU our readers to the Simpson Farm Asylum where you will once again meet Skeletor the Halloween Movie Guru!
Everyone loves a good scary movie, especially during Halloween, but at times it can be tough selecting the one that will be sure to chill you to the bone! Skeletor, who hibernates all year at the Simpson Farm Asylum, located at Loveland Magazine’s office, awakens in October to celebrate all things spooky and to share what 5 Halloween movies you should watch in preparation for the 31st.
Follow me down to the Simpson Farm Asylum where we will meet Skeletor for the 2021 Top 5 Halloween Movies! Turn off the lights, snuggle under your favorite blanket, grab a bag of candy, and prepare to be creeped out!
Skeletor’s 2021 Top 5 Halloween Movies and Where to Find Them!
Nightmare on Elm Street, 1984, Supernatural Slasher, Rated R, Watch on HULU or HBO MAX
The Hills Have Eyes, 2006 remake, Horror, Rated R, Watch on AMAZON PRIME VIDEO
Goosebumps The Series, 1995, Children’s Anthology Horror Television Series, Rated PG, Watch on NETFLIX
Fear Street The Trilogy, 2021, Horror Film Series, Rated R, Watch on NETFLIX
Child’s Play, 2019 remake, Slasher, Rated R, Watch on HULU or AMAZON PRIME VIDEO
Here is a collection of still photos from the Skeletor video shoot taken by David Miller.
Loveland Area Trick or Treating will take place between 6 PM and 8 PM on Friday, October 31st!
Take a Look at my Skeletor Photo Album!
Did you miss Skeletor last year? Click below to watch Skeletor’s 2020 Top Halloween Movie Picks!
Ohioans for a Healthy Economy Action Fund recently started running an attack ad against the three Democratic candidates running for Ohio Supreme Court.
A conservative group heavily funded by Republican megadonor Richard Uihlein — who has supported candidates who falsely denied the results of the 2020 election — donated half a million dollars to a PAC with ties to the Ohio Chamber of Commerce over the summer, according to recently published Federal Election Commission data.
The Fair Courts America PAC gave $500,000 to Ohioans for a Healthy Economy Action Fund back in August, the Super PAC affiliated with Ohioans for a Healthy Economy, Inc which recently started running an attack ad against the three Democratic candidates running for Ohio Supreme Court.
“Criminals let loose. Destroying lives. Even our children aren’t safe because Melody Stewart, Michael Donnelly and Lisa Forbes put their agenda above our safety,” the voice over says in the ad.
Incumbent Democratic Justice Donnelly is being challenged by Republican Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas Judge Megan Shanahan.
Incumbent Democratic Justice Stewart is being challenged by incumbent Republican Justice Joseph Deters, who decided not to run for his current seat and instead chose to go up against Stewart for a full six-year term.
Democratic Judge Forbes, of the Eighth District Court of Appeals, and Republican candidate Dan Hawkins, of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, are competing for Deters’ open seat, a term that expires on Dec. 31, 2026.
“Fair Courts America is basically just moving its money to this group in Ohio, which is then spending on the ads,” said Evan Vorpahl, a senior researcher at True North Research.
Republicans currently have a 4-3 majority on the Ohio Supreme Court. Depending on the outcome of the election, the Democrats could flip the court or the Republicans could strengthen their hold on the court.
Fair Courts America and Richard Uihlein
Fair Courts America formed in February 2022 and has spent millions of dollars on various state Supreme Court races — including Alabama, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Illinois.
Fair Courts America is affiliated with Richard Uihlein’s Restoration of America. Uihlein also donated $333,000 to Fair Courts America on two occasions recently — Aug. 28 and Sept. 19.
Fair Courts America and Restoration of America did not respond to questions sent by the Capital Journal.
Last year, he donated more than a million dollars to the failed campaign that was trying to make it harder to amend the state’s constitution. He helped finance the majority of the group “Protect Our Constitution” during last year’s August Special Election. 57% of Ohioans voted against the measure that would have raised the threshold to amend the state’s constitution to 60%.
Uihlein is a big funder of Club for Growth Action, which has run millions in ads backing Bernie Moreno for Senate and helped fund a Super PAC that supported Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s failed Senate primary campaign earlier this year.
Uihlein is opposed to abortion and has invested in many anti-abortion causes, Vorpahl said.
GET THE OHIO CAPITAL JOURNAL MORNING HEADLINES.
“For someone like Uihlein, Ohio and the Ohio Supreme Court seem right for the picking,” said Jessica Dickinson, the Ohio Fair Courts Alliance’s Outreach and Elections Manager. “I think especially since we’ve had partisan labels to the ballot … even though the abortion amendment passed, they’ve really been making those inroads into Ohio.”
“Powerful people have always tried rigging the rules in their favor, and they are targeting state and federal courts,” Vorpahl said. “They’re trying to take America backwards and control who we can be, who we can love, how we can care for our bodies, our families and the world. And they’re ultimately just trying to put their thumbs on the scales of justice with their fortunes.”
Uihlein has contributed to some extreme causes in recent years. The Chicago Tribune reported he was a big contributor to the “March to Save America” rally that took place before the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
A Daily Beast report published in November 2022 said Uihlein and his wife Elizabeth have donated almost $2 million to Republicans since the Jan. 6 insurrection and more than 80% of those candidates denied or questioned the 2020 election results.
Richard and Elizabeth started Uline — a shipping, packaging and industrial supplies company that started in their basement in 1980. Richard is the CEO and their company has more than 9,000 employees.
Ohioans for a Healthy Economy
COLUMBUS, Ohio — APRIL 20: The Ohio Chamber of Commerce in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Graham Stokes for Ohio Capital Journal)
Ohioans for a Healthy Economy Action Fund seems to be a shell group for the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, Dickinson and Vorpahl said.
The address listed for Ohioans for a Healthy Economy Action Fund is the same as the address for the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, according to a Federal Election Commission form.
The Ohio Chamber of Commerce and Ohioans for a Healthy Economy Action Fund also did not respond to questions sent by the Capital Journal.
Ohioans for a Healthy Economy Action Fund also ran ads during the 2018, 2020 and 2022 Ohio Supreme Court races, Dickinson and Vorpahl said.
The Ohio Chamber of Commerce endorsed Deters, Shanahan and Hawkins for Ohio Supreme Court.
“It’s about keeping their preferred judges on the bench,” Dickinson said. “Business entities and billionaires in these corporations want to keep the court’s current majority because it’s good for business.”
Megan Henry is a reporter for the Ohio Capital Journal and has spent the past five years reporting in Ohio on various topics including education, healthcare, business and crime. She previously worked at The Columbus Dispatch, part of the USA Today Network.
Ohio Capital Journal is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.
Loveland, Ohio – After residents spoke at Tuesday’s council meeting about the demolition of a house in the Downtown Historic District, Mayor Kathy Bailey raised her rhetoric to the level of describing the “firestorm” in opposition to the demolition on social media as “pitchforks and torches” to “run us out of office.”
Speaking in open forum at the 30:20-minute mark of this video during Tuesday night’s Loveland City Council meeting, Sherry Hamlin cast doubt on the cost of renovating the home submitted by the developer. She sees a need for an independent evaluation and would also like to see a comprehensive review of the history associated with the home.
Former City Councilmember Todd Osborne told Council there is a procedural problem with how the Historic Preservation and Planning Commission can approve the demolition of a historic structure. He said that the public currently has very little opportunity to weigh in. He said that, “the public is shut out of the process.”
At the 39:45 mark, Councilmember Neal Oury said the the building does not have, “Any distinctive attributes or characteristics that make it historic.”
Mayor Kathy Bailey followed Oury by saying there is “firestorm” of misinformation on social media about the demolition because residents are linking it to a proposal for six, three-story apartments adjacent to Nisbet Park on Loveland Bike Trail.
She said that the three-story apartment complex that would replace the home has not yet been discussed by the Historic Preservation and Planning Commission.
_____________
The Mayor said that there was been no plan submitted to the Historic Preservation and Planning Commission for consideration for an apartment complex on Railroad Avenue. She said that the Commission has “not looked at it” and “not discussed it”
The fact is that the Commission has a plan in front of them for Loveland Apartments proposed by John Hill Construction and the proposal was discussed at both their June 26th and October 2nd meetings.
Opponents of Ohio’s Issue 1 redistricting reform claim it would be bad for communities of color. Supporters of the proposal to replace politicians with a citizens commission point to the ways the current maps crack and pack Black voters.
The Issue 1 proposal would replace the current Ohio Redistricting Commission made up of seven elected officials with a 15-member commission made up of citizens.
The current commission includes the Ohio governor, auditor, and secretary of state, along with four lawmakers — one from each party in each chamber of the legislature. The 15-member citizens commission being proposed would be made up of five Republicans, five Democrats, and five independents, selected by a bipartisan panel of former judges.
Voting yes on Issue 1 would create the 15-member Ohio Citizens Redistricting Commission. Voting no on Issue 1 would keep the current Ohio Redistricting Commission.
Arguments for and against the ballot initiative have been targeted at communities of color, with both sides saying minority representation will be affected by the results of Issue 1.
In a press conference at the Ohio Statehouse, state Sen. Michele Reynolds, R-Canal Winchester, brought former legislator John Barnes and two other Ohioans to urge voters to reject the ballot measure, claiming the changes “could fragment cohesive minority voting blocks, diluting our political influence.”
“I am deeply concerned about the disastrous effects that Issue 1 will have on the Black state legislative and congressional districts in Ohio,” said Reynolds, who is one of five Black members of the 33-member Ohio Senate, and the only Republican.
One of the Democratic members, state Sen. Catherine D. Ingram, who is also vice president of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus, responded to Reynold’s press conference by saying Issue 1 “would ensure fair maps are drawn and expand opportunities for greater representation across our state, beyond the areas that have historically confined us.”
“For generations, Black Americans have faced disenfranchisement, and gerrymandering adds an additional barrier to our adequate representation,” Ingram said in a statement.
Issue 1 would create a 15-person citizens redistricting commission to replace the current commission. After a vetting process by a bipartisan panel of judges, the selected citizen commissioners would be required to hold public hearings and conduct the drawing of Statehouse and congressional maps in a transparent process, and create maps that receive a majority vote of the commission.
Drawing the maps would require adherence to federal laws like the Voting Rights Act and the statewide partisan preferences of the voters of Ohio.
The current process
In 2021 and 2022, Republican partisans on the commission produced five Ohio Statehouse maps and two U.S. Congressional district maps that were struck down as unconstitutionally gerrymandered by a bipartisan majority on the Ohio Supreme Court.
Despite the fact that the congressional map was never revised to correct the errors found by the state’s highest court, it is the map being used for the 2024 election.
A recent League of Women Voters of Ohio analysis of the current congressional map found that in Massillon, what’s considered a “large politically cohesive African American population” was split between the 6th and 13th Congressional districts.
“Rather than keeping this clear community of interest united in one congressional district, mapmakers sliced Massillon into two pieces, specifically cutting off areas with large concentrations of minority voters from each other,” according to research analysis done by University of Cincinnati professor David Niven.
Niven called the one-third of Stark County voters put in the 6th district “castaway voters,” citing research that said being a “castaway” voter “inhibits political information flows, mobilization and ultimately, representation.”
“The political consequences of landing on the other side of those lines are powerful,” Niven wrote.
The boundary-drawing of certain current congressional districts are “inexplicable” and “drawn in service of confusion not representation,” according to Niven’s research.
The 1st district, for example, borders the 8th district in a “textbook gerrymandering maneuver — dividing a neighborhood and town and causing confusion on who lives in which district, serving no legitimate purpose,” Niven wrote.
“Here’s a congressional district where people on the southern end of the district live in the shadow of Ohio’s third largest city with all its urban needs and opportunities, and people on the northern end have a local government that advertises when someone loses their mittens in the park,” Niven stated.
Cracking and packing
Voting rights advocates tend to agree with this assessment, saying the splitting of communities means less visibility, and less visibility means a lack of attention from people who purport to represent them.
“What we’ve seen with supermajorities is communities are left out of conversations,” said Deidra Reese, director of voter engagement for the Ohio Organizing Collaborative and supporter of Issue 1. “Those issues that are coming from communities that have a smaller presence in those bodies just don’t get to have those issues elevated.”
Important issues in communities of color, like in other communities, can include things like health care, economic issues, gun law reform and hunger. Without competitive districts that create the need for representatives and senators to engage with constituents of all kinds, Reese said legislation won’t match what is needed.
“When you shut the door on people when you pass policies … it’s a disservice and what happens is African Americans just don’t get representation,” Reese said.
Infant and maternal mortality rates were noted as a big concern for Black communities, which see disproportionate rates compared to their white counterparts.
The LWV analysis showed some congressional districts combine those two vastly different mortality rates, like the 9th, 12th and 2nd districts. The 9th district holds Lucas County, with one of the highest rates of infant mortality and Wood County, one of the lowest. The 12th district includes the high rates in Holmes County, and the low rates in Guernsey County. Ohio’s 2nd district has Lawrence County’s high infant mortality rates and Scioto County’s low rates.
“Again, this data begs an essential question,” the LWV study ponders, “How could any elected leader craft policy solutions for their constituencies, when the needs within their sprawling, contorted districts are so far apart?”
Kayla Griffin, president of the Cleveland branch of the NAACP, said the fact that the district maps are still unfair despite previous legislative redistricting reforms in 2015 and 2018 leaves questions about how closely the process was even followed by the elected officials on the Ohio Redistricting Commission.
“I think that becomes a serious problem that erodes the trust and the democracy that we have,” Griffin said.
An even bigger problem that Griffin and other advocates are dealing with is the concern from many Black voters that their vote doesn’t hold weight under the current maps, and therefore won’t make much different in the November general election.
Those talking to voters are trying to focus on the wins, most notably the rejection of a constitutional amendment to make it harder to amend the state’s founding document, and the approval of a ballot initiative that enshrined reproductive rights into that same constitution.
“That is how our vote counts, that is how our voices are heard.” Griffin said. “I’m letting folks know that we can do this again.”
YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE.
__________________
Susan Tebben
Susan Tebben is an award-winning journalist with a decade of experience covering Ohio news, including courts and crime, Appalachian social issues, government, education, diversity and culture. She has worked for The Newark Advocate, The Glasgow (KY) Daily Times, The Athens Messenger, and WOUB Public Media. She has also had work featured on National Public Radio.
Ohio Capital Journal is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.
Attorney General Dave Yost is suing Boeing’s board of directors on behalf of two Ohio pension funds, seeking accountability for a pattern of safety and compliance failures that have harmed the company and its investors.
“The safety failures at Boeing are endangering lives and threatening the financial security of shareholders,” Yost said. “Running a safe, respectable company starts with the people at the top – and it’s time for them to be held accountable.”
Yost’s office – representing the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio – accuses Boeing board members of breaching their fiduciary duties by failing to properly oversee the company.
The lawsuit asserts that board members and senior management, including former Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun, failed to implement adequate safety measures or to address whistleblower concerns about the company’s production processes.
Boeing’s safety and compliance failures culminated in a near catastrophe involving a Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft earlier this year. An Alaska Airlines flight carrying 177 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing on Jan. 5 after a panel of the aircraft blew off shortly after takeoff.
The lawsuit contends that board members and senior management know about the ongoing unsafe practices but even today fail to address them, choosing instead to prioritize profits over safety and regulatory compliance.
“The failure of Boeing’s directors and officers to implement and oversee Boeing’s safety and compliance functions in good faith led to incalculable damage to Boeing’s relationships with its regulators, customers, lenders, potential employees, and the flying public,” the lawsuit says.
Yost is seeking to compel Boeing’s board of directors to improve safety and oversight of the company. The lawsuit is pending before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
More than half a million Ohioans have cast their ballot in the election so far, as of Friday morning.
Combining absentee and early voting, more than 660,000 Ohioans have voted as of Friday morning, according to the Ohio Secretary Of State.
A majority have been through early voting, which takes place at your local county Board of Elections. Early voting began on Oct. 8 and 433,413 Ohioans have voted early.
More than 34,000 people have voted early so far in Franklin County, the state’s most populous county. In Hamilton County, 25,506 people have voted early so far. Nearly 16,000 people have voted early in Cuyahoga County.
There were 1.1 million absentee ballots requested by mail and 234,786 ballots have been returned. Those who requested an absentee ballot tend to skew older, with about a million of those requests coming from Ohioans 55 and older.
More than 800,000 of those who requested an absentee ballot are Independents. Nearly 400,00 Republicans and nearly 300,000 Democrats requested an absentee ballot.
Absentee ballot applications are due to your local board of elections Oct. 29 by 8:30 p.m. and mailed absentee ballots must be postmarked by Nov. 4.
Election Day is Tuesday Nov. 5 and polls are open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. You can find your local polling location here.
Voters must have a photo ID to vote in person. This could be a valid Ohio driver’s license, a U.S. passport, a military ID, an Ohio ID card, an interim ID form issued by the Ohio BMV, an Ohio National Guard ID card or a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs ID card.
There are more than 8 million registered voters in Ohio, according to the Ohio Secretary Of State.
Megan Henry is a reporter for the Ohio Capital Journal and has spent the past five years reporting in Ohio on various topics including education, healthcare, business and crime. She previously worked at The Columbus Dispatch, part of the USA Today Network.
Ohio Capital Journal is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.
Loveland, Ohio – The Loveland City School District has earned an overall 5-Star Rating on the Ohio School Report Card. According to Superintendent Mike Broadwater, a 5-Star Report Card means the district “significantly exceeds” state standards. Loveland has achieved the highest rating for three years in a row.
The District’s annual Quality Profile shown below is a companion to the State Report Card. Ohio School Report Cards are required by law to provide parents, caregivers, community members, educators and policymakers information about district and school performance. The Quality Profile is intended to highlight additional measures families and community members regard as important values, but are not part of the Ohio Department of Education’s report cards.
The Loveland District Report Card is issued by the Ohio Department of Education.
____________
Loveland Earns Five Stars in Every Category on Ohio School Report Card
Loveland City School District has earned a Five Star Overall Rating on the 2023-2024 Ohio School Report Card. Only ten public school districts in the Cincinnati region of Hamilton, Butler, Warren, and Clermont Counties earned an “Overall Rating” of Five Stars.
“Earning a Five-Star Ohio School Report Card is a sign that Loveland City School District delivers a great education to our students. Families should feel great knowing that they are sending their children to a fantastic school district,” Superintendent Mike Broadwater said.
The Ohio School Report Card has five component areas: Achievement, Progress, Gap Closing, Graduation, and Early Literacy. Districts can earn up to five stars in each category but may earn an “Overall Rating” of five stars without fives in every category. Loveland is one of only 18 districts in Ohio to earn Five Stars across the board in each component area. This accomplishment puts Loveland City School District in the top 3% of Ohio’s more than 600 public school districts.
“Loveland is incredibly fortunate to have all the ingredients for a top-notch school district – students and staff who work hard every day, along with families and community members who offer us tremendous support. Our entire Loveland City School District community should be proud of this accomplishment,” Broadwater said.
Loveland earned an Overall Rating of 5 Stars on the 2022-23 Ohio School Report Card and earned 5 Stars in every category on the 2021-22 Ohio School Report Card.
The Loveland’s Historic Preservation and Planning Commission has voted to allow the demolition of this home at 200 Railroad Avenue.
Loveland, Ohio – Not many stories that we have published in our 20-year history has generated more FaceBook comments than the story we first broke on October 16 about resident Deidre Hazelbaker appealing the decision by Loveland’s Historic Preservation and Planning Commission to allow the demolition of a home in Historic Downtown.
Barb Van Orsdel GREED!!!! Another piece of our history demolished!!!! My friends home on Montgomery Rd, in Montgomery, built in 1803, part of the “Underground Railroad”, demolished last week!!! And so it goes…History vs Greed!!!
Kimberly Geiger Niehaus …and where are these proposed renters going to park??? Leave Historic Loveland alone!!!
Birtha Mae Hutchinson Loveland has lost enough of the hometown I grew up in and loved telling everyone where I grew up! People have absolutely no idea what it was like back in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s when you talk to them about Loveland. I was Proud to grow up there! It’s really sad what has become of our small town
Austin Dean Harris Nooooo we can’t even get through the roads at the moment in Loveland… it can’t handle the traffic
Donald Dunford What we need in Loveland, is some memories of the way Loveland us to look like, and not money signs in the city’s eyes. Some town’s keep some Historic sites Historic. When the memory’s are gone what’s left.
Megan Jackson Hook Respectfully to all the commenters and to Ms. Hazelbaker, I’m just curious if the owner of the building is getting a payout that is hard to say “no” to, and that by designating this building an historic one puts their personal choice at risk. Just a thought. I actually love this building – it’s adorable. And it does keep our “old town” appeal for sure. But just trying to look at it from the owner’s point of view. I wouldn’t want to tell someone that they couldn’t sell their property.
Deidre Evans Hazelbaker Megan Jackson Hook I fully respect the property rights of the owner and their ability to sell or develop 200 Railroad Avenue. However, it’s important to note that the property is located within Loveland’s historic district, which was designated in 2015, and is recognized as a contributing structure. When John Hill purchased the property in February 2021, these guidelines were already in place. While the sale or development of the property is possible, any changes must comply with the preservation guidelines established to maintain the historical character of the district.
Megan Jackson Hook Deidre Evans Hazelbaker Duly noted! Thank you so much, truly, for educating me on the process. I am hoping that they can come to a solution that meets the guidelines that were put in place to maintain the integrity and charm of our little town.
Deidre Evans Hazelbaker Agree. I appreciated your concern. It is always good to look at things from multiple angles.
Sherry Hamlin Megan Jackson Hook It should also be noted that the owner of this building is not a “private resident”. It is Infuse Holding, a John Hill Company. As part of the justification for why it doesn’t make financial sense to renovate, they’ll pay themselves $36,600. To this I say, huh?!
So as a comparison, if I renovate my own home for $50k, but I pay myself $36k to serve as the general contractor, was it a $50k renovation, or a $86k renovation?
All I really did was move money from one bank account to another.
Megan Jackson Hook Sherry Hamlin I wish I understood the intricacies of this kind of transaction. Like I said, I just hope that I can reach an amicable conclusion.
Karen Arnett I sure hope that the appeal effort succeeds in preserving the building
Larry Wallace Looks like a nice little 2 apartment building to me
Amber Browning NO ABSOLUTELY NOT!! NO MORE 3 STORY STRUCTURES IN THAT SMALL TOWN SPACE.
Bill Stewart It seems more out ot place than the monstrosity across the street.
Cincy Brit Can’t they put these cheap stacked shoebox apartments somewhere else. Maybe where there’s a declining strip mall. Taking down historical buildings destroys the charm that draws people to Loveland.
Logan Thomas I think many dont realize Loveland doesn’t have an industry tax base like mason for example. Loveland is very heavy residential and therefor taxes are high and city encourages new developments.
Steve Smith I’d like to know how much it sold for. What if the city of Loveland offered to buy the house and land or a group of people to prevent it from being torn down and turned into another apartment complex?
Halie Suzy Rebeccaschild Deidre, what do you think of a cooperative ownership? How about a new building for a new organization that takes historic conservation seriously. How does the Loveland Historical Conservancy sound?
Catherine Monceaux Demolition should have never been granted without the committee first having an architecture firm complete a feasibility study and assessment of the current home so that they have an accurate understanding of all options to restore and associated costs. To approve demolition of a historically significant building without doing basic due diligence first is irresponsible, especially on the part of a historic preservation committee whose job it is to protect this building.
Dean Osborne Why not do a traffic study add those cars in there you go more traffic in downtown it’s like putting 50lbs in a 5 lb bag it won’t work I blame the city council on this why not concentrate on the Loveland Madeira corridor that’s how most of them got put on council
Kathy Bryan Lyttle They keep going and there won’t be any more “old” in Loveland
Karen Ryba Garbarino They are building on west Loveland by the State Farm office. I believe they are putting 3 apartments there. If the ones they want to build in the location of this yellow house are similar, it is not at all appropriate for this location. They are tall and modern with front garages.
Sharon Charlie Martin Yep…just as expected…money talks. Promote the city as an old historic city…then tear down history in the name of progress…these developers would level the whole city if we let them. This is why Milford is eons ahead of Loveland in attracting new businesses and residents.
Emily McAtee Egan Loveland does not need anymore complexes. It can barely handle the # of residents now
Amy Brown-Prather Emily McAtee Egan exactly!!! Moved here 17 years ago because it had small town feel/ charm not anymore. can’t go anywhere near downtown Loveland on the weekend
Natalie Elizabeth So keep taking away the charm that is Loveland? I’ve lived here all my life, and while I adore the businesses in original buildings, the new excess is gross, the parking a nightmare, and the apartments are an eye sore! Stop!
Darlene Turner No More!! They are destroying Historic Loveland!! Thank God someone is fighting for our town!!
Mary Ann Crawford Please do not destroy any more great memories of Old Loveland. I stay away from Loveland on weekends.
Cris Jordan NO!!! Places like these small, unique, historic homeskeep Loveland charming! Think of all the traffic and havoc this will create!!! There will be no place to park and enjoy this unique little town!
Don Tillery Six unit apartment will need 12 parking spots and be available to only renters with extra $$$ or an expensive Airbnb. Why would people who are part of a historic society want apartments over history?
Bob Pauly It’s a shame that the roots of historical Loveland is being replaced by generic everywhere structures.
Christopher Smith John Hill greed+ Loveland’s greed= more apartments, bad traffic,& poor quality of life for the citizens of Loveland.
This is literally the worst place in Loveland to build apartments.
Lou Lehnhoff More apartments = more burden on schools
Sharon Senters Burton I’m am not only a resident of 24 years in Loveland but also a Realtor and we are real estate investors as well! We always try to keep the character and add more benefits for the neighborhood that we flip in. Looking for our next investment property! I’d love to do the same here. Loveland is known for its history and downtown charm. We need to preserve more of that!!
Halie Suzy Rebeccaschild Bring your wallet to the meeting on 10/30. We are starting a new political action committee.
Jamie B Pritchard How can we be a part of this discussion? Is there someone we can contact or a meeting to attend?
Deidre Evans Hazelbaker Jamie B Pritchard The appeal regarding the demolition of a historic home in Loveland’s historic district will take place on October 30th at 5:30 pm at Loveland City Hall. You can signup to speak on the sheet when you walk in. If you can’t make it, message me. I am collecting letters.
Carolann Luider Jamie B Pritchard please do not let any more historic areas be destroyed we already lost so much with the two apartments we have now and the train being stopped when they bought near the tracks we truly lost the small historic town we moved here for and the attraction was a part of the success of the bike trail and the home town shops and restaurants and sports bars. We already made almost in possible for the seniors who lived and loved this town to come due to parking if you a find near the restaurants possible handicap spots are very few and the new parking is not really handy for handicap people to use all the areas for shopping and eating the spots by the old train station right in the heart of town are not marked for seniors which would we the perfect area. The historic places and events and places made our town do not destroy what made what we are today
Halie Suzy Rebeccaschild Mark your calendars! The appeal regarding the demolition of a historic home in Loveland’s historic district will take place on October 30th at 5:30 pm at Loveland City Hall.
I always suspect meetings are scheduled by those in favor of development at the most inconvenient times purposely to discourage community input.
The 5:30 time on a weekday may be difficult for some, but we hope you’ll make every effort to be there to pack the room and hall.
Your presence could make a difference. If you can’t attend, consider writing a letter to be read at the meeting.
After the meeting, I’m organizing residents in favor of a fresh city council to start a local political action committee for the purpose of electing Loveland Council members interested in conservation of what’s left of historic buildings and green spaces.
Bring a fresh $10 or $20 to be among founding members. (Other payment methods accepted.)
Ellen Mershon “The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape” ~ James Howard Kunstler is an interesting read. We keep giving away our identity one bulldozer at a time.
Wendy Warner Ransom The report confirms it’s an old house in bad shape. It does not address viability of repair. Would it be expensive and challenging, sure, but it’s possible. It’s also biased since it was done by the people who want to demolish.
Regardless, the proposed apartments do not fit the aesthetic of the area. Might as well put in a glass and steel high rise. It will stick out like a sore thumb. Why can’t something more sympathetic to the old town vibe be designed? A historic face with and updated interior would be fantastic.
The Mayor said that there was been no plan submitted to the Historic Preservation and Planning Commission for consideration for an apartment complex on Railroad Avenue. She said that the Commission has “not looked at it” and “not discussed it”
MORE BACKGROUND: