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Posted: Feb 19 2009 at 11:49am

From City Manager Report

Senator Voinovich Visit

We have been busy making plans for the Senator’s visit. We are honored that he has chosen Middletown to visit and I believe that we have a great story to share with him. While the focus of the visit will be the Neighborhood Stablization Program, on which he worked very hard, he will also want to know of the other challenges we face as a community.

Also, the Senator worked with the USEPA on their decision to support the Sun Coke permit. Council members may want to extend thanks for his support on this very important regional project as well.

]]> Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:49:00 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=992&PID=4429&title=voinovichs-tour#4429 Voinovich's Tour : John- as to your comment about... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=992&PID=4412&title=voinovichs-tour#4412 Author: VietVet
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Posted: Feb 18 2009 at 3:47pm

John- as to your comment about excellent housing values in the nice neighborhoods- mute point in trying to sell those excellent values in nice neighborhoods if the town can't attract the upscale income people who can afford them and who want to live here. As to good and bad sections in most cities- True but I see Middletown as having a disproportional amount in the goodsection/ bad section ratio skewed to the bad side. This also goes for the ratio of nice/well kept neighborhoods to run down neighborhoods, skewed to the latter.]]> Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:47:50 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=992&PID=4412&title=voinovichs-tour#4412 Voinovich's Tour : Crawford had the highest housing... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=992&PID=4402&title=voinovichs-tour#4402 Author: John Beagle
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Posted: Feb 18 2009 at 11:49am

Crawford had the highest housing abandonment rate/highest crime and the highest number of Section 8 housing.

There are good and bad sections of most cities. Middletown is no exception. But what about the excellent housing values in the nice neighborhoods. Sure we should see the problems and fix them, but lets not forget that most neighborhoods in this area are nice and well kept.

]]> Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:49:05 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=992&PID=4402&title=voinovichs-tour#4402 Voinovich's Tour : Sen Voinovich took a bus tour... http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=992&PID=4399&title=voinovichs-tour#4399 Author: VietVet
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Posted: Feb 18 2009 at 7:20am

Sen Voinovich took a bus tour to see the city's housing yesterday. The article states that as they were in the Crawford St. area, Becker mentioned that Crawford had the highest housing abandonment rate/highest crime and the highest number of Section 8 housing. How coincidental! It is truely amazing that this Council doesn't want to get rid of as much Section 8 as possible, given the problems that Sec. 8 presents. There are too many negatives to having this program and I see no positives. Marty K. said that Franklin St. is "at risk" because of the number of abandonments and that "action needs to be taken" which is a broad, non-meaningful,rubber-stamped, pacification statement typically made by a city official when they don't have anything with substance to say. Again, for the umteenth time, WHY do we have programs like this in a town that can ill-afford to attract more lower income/less educated people and lower it's image anymore? Our "leaders" are taking this town from a respectable blue-collar working town to a 3rd world country slum by putting out the welcome mat to attract people to this program. ENOUGH ALREADY!

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