"ITS THE SAME OLD SONG, BUT WITH A ..."
Different meaning.
Here is the reply I received from the "Clean Ohio Fund" pertaining to the hospital site...
There are two tracks that applications can fall into for the CORF program: Redevelopment Ready and Known End User. For Redevelopment Ready the applicant is not required to have a development partner or known end use for the property just so that they have a plan for future redevelopment. For Known End User, the applicant is required to have a developer and known end user for the property. This means they need have a committed developer for the planned use and then someone to utilize the property once redeveloped. These two tracks have different scoring applications online. If you look in the Known End User Part B question 1 is about the Known End User requirements.
As for LEEDS, there is really only one question in the scoring matrix that relates to LEED redevelopment standards: question 12 Green Building. The question simply asks if the applicant is willing to make a resolution or ordinance stating the property will be developed in accordance with LEED standards. Otherwise the program does not require the LEED standards be followed it is only encouraged.
So the questin is finally answered we did not have to have a developer to receive the grant to tear down the hospital. We could have applied as redevelopment ready.
Known End User. Do we really know what the end use will be? By listening to the council meeting Mr. Zaremba has nothing more than a vision, the city manager stated this plan is only in the starting faze, and we could see many changes including the developer before council votes on the final plan. Will this answer help or hurt the city to receive the final grant? Known End User would be a statement like Zaremba has a contract with Acme Whatever to build a 100,000 sq.ft. building to be used for this, and construction will start as soon as the site is cleared.
This meeting with the "Clean Ohio Fund" will be at City Hall September 9,2009 will the city be prepared with the answers that committee will ask? Wonder if the will ask the city about other proposals they received and did the city do a R.F.P. ?
posted by terminator1 @ 7:50 AM
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6 Comments:
Your points is?
Just a wild guess here, but again the CM manufactured a situation to get council to vote for her plan. The CM at the council meeting said, The city could not aquire the grant without a developer. That folks is a lie. Now I've been hearing alot about Congress not reading bills, show me the city councilmen that read that grant requirement. Joe Hada, Arlene Becks, Hal Wernner, Paul Hach, Andy Flock, Abby DelMotte. If they voted and didn't read the grant they should be thrown out period.
What else should she have done? Put a fence around the building,then you would complain about her not doimg anything. Its Zaremba problem to sell them not the citys.
Apparently you did not finish reading the redevelopment ready path. There is also a requirement in the redevelopment path that you describe how it will benefit low income residents. Wonder why we didn't take that path?
You want to put this city on a winning track? Get new leadership. Starting with replacing the City Manager. We have to start fresh!
Mr.Rellik
Zaremba will never build 1000square ft. Townhouses on the hospital property. After he does his homework he will come back to city council and tell them he will build apartments on the site. somethng like Cobblestone. Why? The mans no fool He knows that project is a pipe dream.
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