Lake Erie Living

Submitted by lmcshane on May 24, 2008 - 7:03pm.


SMART publishing! Really SMART--Capitalize on our biggest asset.
I found Lake Erie Living at my hair salon, so as you can imagine, I had time to read it from cover-to-cover.  And, I thought, at least the publishers know that their niche is to sell the region, which, out of curiousity, made me look up this publication in Wikipedia.  Not there, yet.  But, the Plain Dealer and Cleveland Magazine are listed. 

 This month's Cleveland Magazine looks at the Breuer debacle.  Sorry to say, much like the trouble you will encounter at any website and reminiscent of RealNEO's own woes and BFD's current woes, ...Cleveland Magazine's online version is currently down with this message:

Microsoft JET Database Engine error '80004005'

Not enough space on disk.

/ME2/Apps/CPTraffic/clsLog.asp, line 237

...Sort of a statement on the times for publishing as we know it.  But, hey, on the bright side, available at newstands and your local library!

BTW, the photo shows W.C. Reed field, actually, a buried tributary to the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie.  And, speaking of publications--this month's Northern Ohio Live is entitled: Great Neighborhoods--why we love where we live.  Of course, our local CDC executive lives in Westlake, so she wasn't interested in promoting my neighborhood through this issue and Northern Ohio Live's City Guide.  Hell--what do I know?  I only live here.

Here is a photo of the townhouses that will be torn down for NRP.  They are located on the border of WC Reed Field, adjacent to that buried tributary and tied into an ancient, decrepit sewer system.  These townhouses are slated to be demolished soon.  Expect the taxpayers to foot the bill for this demo, too.

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2000 Denison
Submitted by lmcshane on June 18, 2008 - 5:42am.

See photos above--See articles written on Neighborhood Revitalizaton Partners in the 1990s in Toledo Blade and Akron Beacon Journal.  See Save our Land posts.

Here is the text of letter I sent to Southwest Citizen's group:
I work tonight, but I am going to try and make the Southwest Citizens' meeting to share my concerns on the proposal by Councilman Cummins to build subsidized senior housing on Denison Ave. 

The sewers are decrepit and not sized for this scale project.  There is also a buried creek under WC Reed Field. That culvert carries an enormous amount of water during storm events and is also subject to collapse.

The City of Cleveland's department of water pollution  control is responsible for the sanitary and combined sewers along Fern Court and Denison Ave--they have not reviewed this proposal. Denison has the inceptor, which receives rainwater and sanitary waste from the "upstream" connections along West 22 and Fern Court.  Fern Court is a 15" sized pipe with negative slope (meaning it currently does not drain properly--it actually slopes towards the park, rather than towards the inteceptor).  West 22nd Place has an 18" pipe, which ties into Denison. 

Brian will try to say that the project will tie directly to the Denison Inteceptor.  The Denison interceptor is also subject to collapse (it has collapsed across from Art House/next to Denison School).  This is also misleading, because the storm water flowing from the  parking lot slated for access from Fern Court can not tie directly into the interceptor.  Also the interceptor has exceeded capacity as recently as March 2008, which means that the combined sewer/storm water from the interceptor is subject to backing up into the smaller feeder lines (Fern/West 22nd Place) during storm events.

The volume of water proposed for this type of project has been calculated before by the DWPC for a previous proposal, which was denied due to the fill and existing geologic/environmental conditions on Fern Court.

You will also want to see these stories on the developer Neighborhood Revitalization Partners:

OLD SEWER SYSTEM PLAGUES NEW HOMES

Edition: CITY FINAL
Section: NEWS SECTION 2
Page: 13
Record Number: 9807240022
Copyright (c) 1998 The Toledo Blade Company

PROPOSED HOUSING HITS SNAG OVER APPARENT CHANGE IN PLAN

Edition: CITY FINAL
Section: NEWS SECTION 2
Page: 16
Record Number: 9808010065
Copyright (c) 1998 The Toledo Blade Company

RECORDS SHOW LAND PAYMENTS INFLATED

Edition: 1 STAR
Section: METRO
Page: A1
Index Terms: MICHAEL LAMPERS SR. RODGER MCKAY MIDLAND COMMERCE GROUP ; REAL ESTATE FRAUD EAST AKRON NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORP.
Record Number: 9908090062
Copyright (c) 1999 Akron Beacon Journal

SEE also Aberdeen Investments, for demolition and deception coming soon.

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Soap Opera
Submitted by lmcshane on June 18, 2008 - 8:32am.

Frontline calls it the "Young and the Restless,"   last night one of the characters, an American-educated man, bemoans falling into the corruption so prevalent in China (everywhere).  He says a fish needs water--if the water is dirty, it must fight to stay alive.  Fish can't leave water.

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