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Franklinton
Columbus's oldest settlement in the Scioto bottoms — now an arts district beside COSI.
- Landmark
- COSI sits on Franklinton's riverfront, facing Downtown across the Scioto.
- City Council
- District 3District 5
- Local civic body
- Franklinton Area CommissionCity-recognized area commissionMeets 6:00 pm, 2nd Tuesday of each month · Mount Carmel Community Health Resource Center, Medical Office Building 2. Meeting schedule & map
- Zone In status
- Phase 2 draft districts are published and open for public comment through Oct 24, 2026; today the parcels keep their current zoning.
What's in the public record
Recent building permits
1,788 permits on record inside the Franklinton Area Commission’s boundary since 2024.
- New structure (1–3 family) · 282 AVONDALE AVE2026
- New structure (1–3 family) · 966 BELLOWS AVE2026
- New structure (1–3 family) · 277 AVONDALE AVE2026
- New structure (1–3 family) · 307 AVONDALE AVE2026
- Plumbing (1–3 family) · 966 BELLOWS AVE2026
How the Franklinton community compares
The Franklinton community’s standing across Civic Worth’s civic maps. Open any measure to see it on the map.
Ranked across the City of Columbus’s Columbus Communities planning areas, which the City notes aren’t a substitute for area commission boundaries.
- Code-enforcement & blight pressure126 code cases per 1,000 parcels · #1 of 35 · as of Oct 9, 2026
- 311 requests resolved within 7 days39% share resolved within 7 days · #30 of 35 · as of Oct 9, 2026
- Development pulse (2025 building permits)130 permits per 1,000 parcels · #16 of 40 · as of Oct 9, 2026
- Rent burden (studio)39.1% fair-market rent as % of median income · #2 of 41 · as of Oct 9, 2026
- Digital divide18.9% households without home broadband (%) · #6 of 41 · as of Oct 9, 2026
- Aging housing stock116 median age of homes (years) · #4 of 36 · as of Oct 9, 2026
Zone In Phase 2 in the Franklinton community
Under the City’s Phase 2 Public Review Draft, 24.1% of the Franklinton community’s land is proposed for a new zoning district, across 141 draft districts.
Most-proposed districts (by parcels)
- UCT · Urban Center — 303 parcels
- IMX · Industrial Mixed-Use — 188 parcels
- EMX · Emerging Mixed-Use — 129 parcels
Public Review Draft, Aug 2026 — subject to change. Source: City of Columbus Zone In Phase 2 draft map (ArcGIS layer 808), as of 2026-10-09.
Example Franklinton parcels
Three real addresses inside the neighborhood — open one to see its full civic record.
ZIP codes in the Franklinton Area Commission’s area
Explore other Columbus neighborhoods
See these patterns across the whole city on the Columbus civic maps — zoning, permits, 311 response times, displacement risk, and more.