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Short North corridor — Storefront Scout snapshot

Civic Worth's Short North corridor follows N High Street north of downtown Columbus. Its Storefront Scout page tracks 311 vacant-structure complaints, building permits and mapped storefront businesses in and around the corridor.

Civic Worth's Short North corridor follows N High Street's commercial frontage. Its polygon is an approximate rectangle that also takes in the surrounding blocks. Parcels inside it are zoned under a mix of Title 33 and Title 34 districts, including the Title 34 UCR and UCT districts that Zone In Phase 1 adopted. No area commission covers the polygon. The corridor page reports three measures: vacant-structure complaints filed with Columbus 311 inside the polygon over the trailing 12 months, building permits issued within 150 meters of it by year (City of Columbus Building & Zoning Services), and storefront businesses mapped in OpenStreetMap. The 311 figure counts complaints, not confirmed vacancies, and OpenStreetMap is volunteer-mapped, so its business count may be incomplete. The figures update as the sources do; check the corridor page for current numbers before quoting them. A fuller corridor report is available on request from that page. The corridor page is at civicworth.com/storefront-scout/short-north-corridor.