‘Toledo Area’ Archives
District 5 Newsletter
District 5 Toledo City Councilman Tom Waniewski's latest newsletter: Westside CSX Corridor The CSX Toledo Terminal is a recently-abandoned corridor that stretches eleven miles from Laskey Rd. to Rossford. Take a look at the corridor map. Naturally, a big chunk of that runs through this council district. I attended a meeting May 2nd for public [...]
Apportionment reminder
The Toledo apportionment board will host the first of three public meetings to solicit community input on the drawing of new council districts on Tuesday, May 3. The meeting will begin at 5 p.m. at the Highland Park shelter house located at 1865 Finch St. Residents will have two other opportunities to offer input on the process of [...]
Webb seeks delay in trash implementation – Updated
A memo sent from District 6 Toledo City Councilwoman Lindsay Webb requests the Bell administration delay the implementation of the private trash collection implementation based on additional costs to the City of Toledo that are in the planning stages. According to information recently learned by some members of Council, including Webb, Lucas [...]
22,000 + pool visits
During the 2010 swimming season for City of Toledo public pools, which ran from June 21st – August 13 -- 22,450 visits were logged at the six pools that were open, Willys, Wilson, Navarre, Pickford, Jamie Farr and Savage splash pad. The 2009 swimming season was a shorter one due to the economic situation Toledo was in, July 7th – August [...]
Private parking lot fees not within City control
Council President Wilma Brown said at the April 19 Toledo City Council meeting that some of the parking fees being charged for Downtown events were ridiculous, she wanted to know if there was an ordinance that could control the price with some of them charging $20 and more. Deputy Mayor Tom Crothers said the City's only area of control is over the [...]
No Deed Restriction on TPS Libbey deal
Story released earlier today for Toledo Free Press - Libbey legislation does not include deed restriction for those of you following the discussion concerning the proposed development agreement between TPS and the City of Toledo. The basic gist, sources believe it was a simple misstatement made by Deputy Mayor Steve Herwat at the April 26 [...]
McNamara Solar Resolution
Opposing First Energy's application to the PUCO to encourage/require them to comply with Senate Bill 221 was discussed in length at a February 28 Public Utility committee meeting before Council. I recommend reading that as well as the power point presentation for those interested in some of the background. Councilman Joe McNamara had been [...]
Toledo City Council April 26
Special Council Meeting April 26: 9 Were present - the item on the agenda was: Submitting to the State of Ohio Department of Commerce, Division of Liquor Control a Request for a hearing, objecting to the renewal of liquor permit #6053690 (D5,D6) to Melrose Missile LLC, DBA/ Omni Midwest located at 2567 W. Bancroft St. Toledo, Lucas County, [...]
Redrawing Council Districts
This in from the office of Mayor Michael Bell: City of Toledo apportionment board to solicit public input Three public meetings provide residents opportunity to offer feedback The city of Toledo apportionment board will hold a series of public meetings to solicit community input on the redrawing of city council districts. Residents may [...]
Soup Kitchens & Food Bank
As part of the discussion concerning ordinances that will be before Council on May 3 related to CDBG funding, Councilmen Tom Waniewski and Mike Craig both made referral requests for information. Their requests and the answers are below. Referral response to Waniewski: Provide the statistics of the servings by the soup kitchens receiving [...]