[Columbus to spend $30 million on streets] Tuesday, February 22, 2011 12:29 PM BY DOUG CARUSO The Columbus Dispatch Columbus will spend an unprecedented $30 million to resurface 285 miles of streets and alleys this year, Mayor Michael B. Coleman announced this morning. The capital budget will include the money, for 141 streets all over Columbus, when the City Council takes it up on March 7. The city spent about $21 million last year on resurfacing, Coleman said, and just $3 million - all of it from federal grants - in 2009. "A couple of years ago, the city of Columbus had no money to resurface streets and we spent no money to resurface streets," Coleman said. "I could not foresee a time when we could resurface streets." But voter approval of an income tax increase in August 2009 now leaves the city with enough money to issue bonds for the work, Coleman said. The increase raised taxes from 2 percent to 2.5 percent. Coleman, a Democrat, is running for re-election thi