One year ago:

• Cincinnati City Council passed a resolution supporting the Complete Streets Act of 2009, which would require local governments to design streets for all types of transportation or face losing federal funding.
• It appeared that Cincinnati's Neighborhood Homes Initiative wouldn't be limited to ten neighborhoods after all.
• Photos of Northside, Downtown, Over-the-Rhine, Pleasant Ridge, and the Cincinnati Zoo were added to the Building Cincinnati galleries.
• Frank Fletcher was appointed as a new development director for the Cincinnati Preservation Association.
• A teardown project in Hyde Park, to be marketed by the Painter Development Group and built by Black Diamond Construction Company, was listed for $699,000.
• A house along Martin Luther King Jr Drive in Corryville was razed by the University of Cincinnati Board of Trustees.