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Marc Conte, who is the executive director of the downtown Columbus special improvement district, or SID, accused the mayor of mounting a pressure campaign on downtown property owners to remove their support for both SIDs, which rely on voluntary taxes from property owners to operate.

State Route 104 and I-270 are major routes for commercial haulers taking trash to transfer stations, where garbage goes before heading to the landfill.

Now that the snow has melted, ODOT crews are heading to the sides of Central Ohio roadways to pick up large amounts of litter dropped by drivers and others. Last year the agency spent $4 million picking up more than 450,000 bags of trash across the state.