May 29, 2015 tt comments

At the moment, the 22nd Century Committee seems to be comprised of mostly business people.

And at the moment, this committee is focused strictly on downtown Toledo, which, I'm guessing, is an area of maybe two square miles in a city that is about 88 square miles in size.

It's not a Toledo thing. It's a narrowly-focused downtown Toledo idea. And that's fine.

It's fine as long as our tax dollars are not disproportionally used on downtown Toledo. You can't have a real city when a tiny portion looks fine and the rest is decaying.

Past ideas, initiatives, plans, committees, orgs, studies, etc. that went nowhere focused on various areas: downtown Toledo, all of Toledo, Lucas County, and the region.

Maybe this new narrowly-focused plan can ignite business owners and leaders in other parts of Toledo to form their own committees to improve their sections of Toledo.

22nd Century Central Toledo Committee. Well, a new name will be needed. I think that some orgs already exist that focus on say North Toledo or South Toledo.

Hopefully, the 22nd CC stays privately funded because if Toledo government cannot afford to repair our roads, then it does not need to involve itself in anything else.

As long as the politicians stay out of the way, then the 22nd CC idea may have a shot.

But from an entertainment perspective, this is why it would be great to see Carty get elected mayor. Monkey wrench in functioning gears.

22nd Century Committee vs 22nd-Floor. Game on. That's worthy of pay-per-view.

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Yeah, the Toledo Zoo's inclusion seemed odd to me too, since the zoo is not located downtown, and the zoo is partially funded by a county-wide property tax.

And that damn science center org better not be involved either even though it is located downtown.

Those orgs that charge admission fees and offer memberships should not be taking property tax money. But since they do because of "caring" voters, then they should be disqualified from a development committee that is allegedly led by private business.

The zoo's inclusion makes the 22nc CC seem suspicious and illegitimate.

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