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Our Taxes: Let’s use our $250,000 to help our city’s economy. NOT to pave the perfect parking lot.

Fran Mentch · October 16, 2012 · 2 Comments

Will "greening" City Hall's parking lot attract new residents or help our businesses? According to a Sun News article published on Cleveland.com 10/6/12, Mayor Ed Kelley plans to spend $250,000 of the city’s money to “retrofit” the City Hall parking lot to make it … [Read more...] about Our Taxes: Let’s use our $250,000 to help our city’s economy. NOT to pave the perfect parking lot.

Filed Under: Fran Mentch, Government Tagged With: Behnke Associates, Cleveland Heights City Council, Sun News

Facts do no support another tax-abated project: Meadowbrook-Lee.

Fran Mentch · August 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Mayor Ed Kelley was quoted in a Sun Press article saying that the Lee-Meadowbrook development will not go forward if the CH-UH Board of Education will not approve an 11 year, 80% tax abatement.This abatement would apply to both the commercial and residential parts of this … [Read more...] about Facts do no support another tax-abated project: Meadowbrook-Lee.

Filed Under: Fran Mentch, Government Tagged With: CHUH Board Of Education, Cleveland Heights City Council, Meadowbrook-Lee, Tax Abatement

Let’s not romanticize the Millikin decision.

Fran Mentch · March 20, 2012 · 2 Comments

Kudos to Mosdos Ohr HaTorah for their efforts to purchase Millikin. I only wish they had lent their considerable public relations savvy to saving Oakwood, which, just like Millikin, is also in their backyard. Who knows, if they had lent a hand, maybe their neighborhood would be … [Read more...] about Let’s not romanticize the Millikin decision.

Filed Under: Fran Mentch, Schools, Sustainability Tagged With: Cleveland Heights City Council, Millikin, Severance Town Center

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