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County Streamlines Bureaucracy By Forming Two Committees
Downtown Workers Living In Hole

County Streamlines Bureaucracy By Forming Two Committees

Fearing bureaucracy from the city Planning Commission, Hamilton County narrowly avoided a red tape mess when last week they formed two committees to oversee the Banks project: a design committee, and a zoning committee.

"These two committees will see to it that work progresses with minimal interruption, " explained Commissioner Phil Heimlich. "Any design or zoning decision will flow smoothly through either of these groups. Or both. Or neither. I'm not sure. Maybe we need a committee to assign decisions..."

Downtown Workers Living In Hole

The start of the Fountain Square renovation caught some downtown workers by surprise Monday morning.

Federico Barriga, who evidently has not read or watch any news whatsoever in the past freakin year, expressed outrage: "I’m not going to come back. There’s no tables anymore."

Dan Davis, who has watched the news maybe once more than Barriga, took it in stride: "I think I’d heard something about it, but I didn’t realize it would be like this today. I’ll probably just walk around downtown now.” Davis proceeded to walk around the block between Vine & Race, 5th & 6th about eight times.