Comments on: Semantics, It’s Just Semantics–Or Is It?

By: derek

derek — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:42:17 +0000

Come on, Susan. Don’t mention Chagrin Highlands. I just ate.

Tim Hagan is way off when it comes to how to deal with the dissenting voices in the Breuer debate. I am ambivalent about the building itself (there’s something to be said for opening windows) but I do think that the public needs to know about the goings-on of the planning for the future of this city and region and have an avenue to express their say.

By: Susan Miller

Susan Miller — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:03:03 +0000

Gloria, You are so right and I have been swimming in research around the last business Jacobs seems to have done with the city — out at 271 and Harvard.

But with all this hard work I thought we could all use a moment (only a moment mind you) of levity. Here’s a volley Norm Roulet and I had back in April that seems pertinent to this discussion. Particularly Norm’s final image.

http://realneo.us/blog/jeff-buster/pull-out-all-the-stops#comment-2863

They may have a plan that they are hiding, but maybe they are just flailing like drowning men. Seems more like the latter (which is frightening), since they have nothing promising to show, they show us nothing. Sounds so like our current federal administration on Mission Accomplished day…

By: Glenn Murray

Glenn Murray — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:23:06 +0000

It seems like renovating the old county office building and underground connection to the existing convention center into the new Medical Mart would be a win-win for the county and the region. This would provide a use for the existing convention center, and a new purpose for the soon to be vacated county office building.
This would save the cost of a brand new convention center attached to Tower City, since we would be re-using the existing convention center.

By: Steve McQuillin

Steve McQuillin — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:55:32 +0000

What wonderful comments! I have such pride in the Cleveland City Planning Commisison for taking such a principled stand. Also, Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones has played a key role in this process. I’d hate to see a positive issue like the propsoed new Medical Convention Center subsumed in this controversy. The County Commissioners need to compromise and save the Breuer Tower.

By: TimFerris

TimFerris — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:51:23 +0000

Seems like everybody’s in a really big hurry here, trying to get the Breuer torn down, trying to ram through a tax increase. Are we in too much of a hurry for normal, due process? Why, do you suppose?