COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Columbus leaders are sharing the results of the city’s Clean and Safe Corridor Initiative, which city departments use to clean up key commercial areas in terms of crime and beautification.
“We’re doing everything we can to make sure that, from a visibility standpoint, street lights, you know, trimming of trees and making sure that the streets are walkable and safe are critically important, so the whole effort around this corridor initiative is having all the city departments be part of this, so you’ve got public service, public utilities, recreation, and arts development,” Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther said.
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The city has already invested more than $500,000 in the Clean and Safe Corridor initiative. Ginther is proposing another $5 million investment into safety-enhancing technology. That would go in the four areas the city identified as key commercial corridors for this initiative.
They started with Parsons Avenue, then Sullivant Avenue, and then Livingston Avenue. The most recent blitz was on High Street in the Short North…