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What’s your ‘pet eyesore’ in Middletown?
No matter how big or small a community might be, eyesores such as dilapidated buildings, houses, properties, etc., are something that every community has in common.
Among the Agenda 2008 priorities that Middletown City Council has set this year are finding ways to address these issues because they are a quality of life issue. It also makes it that much harder for city officials to sell the community to prospective industries and businesses to create the jobs our community needs.
Many people can agree on what should be done, but as the community is also finding out with Middletown’s streets, it’s going to take some money and don’t look for the state of Ohio or the federal government to write the check to make things better.
So for the weekend, we’d like you to tell us where some of your “pet eyesores” and nuisance properties are in Middletown as well as sharing your thoughts on how to pay for abating these issues. It’s very easy to identify the problem, but it’s much harder to come up with ideas on how to pay for addressing them.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas.
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By Peter Principle
July 1, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this
Ed, it is clear your agenda is the city of Middletown, and not the residents. As for the solution, the solution for 25 years was for the city development Director to bring in new business. He was fulltime, and he failed, the same as we have seen to date. So, the solution was provided, and paid for by residents but the city failed. Then, the city diverted street funds by altering a city ordinance and spending dedicated funds anywhere they saw fit. So the solution Ed, was for the city to collect funds and use them to pave the streets, which the city failed in 21 years. Now, you think the solution is to raise taxes 2.25%, so the slution will be residents suffer the burden of taxation and waste, while new businesses are given txa abatements for 10 years or more? That’s not a solution Ed. Residents will leave, as they are, businesses will leave as they are, and the net sum gain will be more loss than gain. Oh, now to the eyesore. The biggest eyesore is watching the grass grow all over Middletown through streets which haven’t been paved in 20 some years associated with the solution the city had in having a Director of business development bring in business, which never was successful. The solution is for the city to budget for pothole repair each year, because the residents get no benefit from paying excessive taxation associated with failed city solutions.By VietVet
July 2, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this
Eyesores- all of the vacant stores along Central Ave. as you continue downtown. Vacant buildings along the river by Bicentennial Commons. McGee’s on Manchester. Some of the houses in Mayfield.Some houses/businessess on South Main St. Some houses in the South end.Route 4 by the airport is trashy.Some houses in the Lakeside area.City Council as they sit behind the desk trying to make a competent decision.City government as they try to function competently.All need work to improve image.By roadrage
July 2, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this
Too many to name, but lets try. The house with the collapsing roof on Central, as you are about to enter town, across from Stefano’s, lovely site. The weeds growing all over the peripheral of the Sr. Citizens Center. The weeds next to the $100K in Berns landscaping the city wasted by I-75. The dirty carpet inside the city building on the Ist Flr. The tacky and ridiculously silly round concrete planters all over town, near the hospital, elsewhere, planted with flowers and those flags which state the Foundation as a gift- tacky, tacky, tacky. Best assets are the Woodside Cemetary, Arboretum,. Another eyesore- Middletown Regional Hospital, idle, while those houses sit waiting for no buyers. Then, we have the For Sale signs, sitting for years, with no buyers. That just about covers it.