North Linden

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qoomo3ifu34vwwr/AAD9CNl_7RO-Xh4wMipXh2TFa?dl=0

Franklin County Auditor

https://smart.columbus.gov/home/

Franklin County Auditor https://www.franklincountyauditor.com/AUDR-website/media/Documents/Community%20Relations/In%20the%20News/Kirwan-Institute-Franklin-County-Auditor-Report-Investigating-the-appraisal-process.pdf

Columbia Gas plans to build a new transmission pipeline across North Linden.

Links

• Columbia Gas website
• Commissioner Keith’s personal notes on the public meetings

The City of Columbus is rebuilding Hudson Street from Cleveland Avenue to I-71, adding a center turn lane and converting the sidewalk on the south side of Hudson Street to a shared-use path. Construction is planned to finish in summer or fall 2024.

For the duration of this project, COTA bus route 31 is rerouted off of Hudson Street onto Weber Road.

Links:

• City of Columbus webpage describing the project
• COTA loute 31 map

The City of Columbus and ODOT plan to widen Cleveland Avenue to add more turn lanes to the intersection with Hudson Street. Construction is planned to begin in summer 2024 and wrap up in 2025.

Links:

• 2021 ODOT presentation on the intersection design
• ODOT project page

The City of Columbus and the Franklin County Engineer’s Office plan to make improvements to crosswalks on Cleveland Avenue. Construction on these projects began in February 2024, and will continue according to this schedule provided by Liaison Scales:

Feb 12 – March 24
at Camden Ave
at E. 19th Ave

March 24 – May 24
at Kenmore Rd
at Republic Ave

May 24 – June 24
at Lakeview Ave
at Agler Rd
at Lehner Rd

Links:

• Columbus project website
• Walk Safe on Cleveland project webpage
• Franklin County Engineer’s office public meeting materials
• Commissioner Keith’s notes on the 2022 project meeting and 2024 notes on the placement of crosswalks related to crashes

Columbus Rec Parks plans to build a bike path along Mock Road, from Joyce Avenue to the Alum Creek Trail along Sunbury Road.

Construction for this project is planned to start in 2025, coinciding with a storm sewer upgrade on Mock Road.

Links:

• 2012 presentation slides from early in the design of this path
• Former website for the Alum Creek Connector project
• Columbus ordinance 1183-2021 funding the project

The City of Columbus will convert the abandoned train tracks along Cleveland Avenue into a new eighty-foot-wide park stretching from Windsor Park in South Linden, through Kilbourne Run Sports Park, to Cooper Park near Westerville.

Construction is planned to start in 2026.

Links:

• Columbus Rec Parks project description
• Two-page project description PDF

A veterans memorial located at the intersection of Cleveland Avenue and Westerville Road was frequently struck by drivers.

Columbus Rec Parks plans to relocate this memorial to Linden Park in 2024.

As part of the Blueprint Columbus storm water redirection project, the City of Columbus is installing rain gardens, sump pumps, curb bump-outs, and permeable pavers in certain areas in North Linden.

Construction began in 2022.

Links:

• Blueprint Columbus North Linden project page
• Map of planned permeable pavers, curb bump-outs, rain gardens, and other work

Beginning in April 2024, Columbus Metropolitan Libraries plans to demolish and rebuild the Linden Library to make it bigger and better.

Links:

• CML “New Buildings” page