Plant the marina district and leave it as a park.

There is no better way to beautify this city and provide for another area for waterfront recreation, than leaving it as greenspace.

When you consider this, think Chicago and the miles of lakefront that provide a place to recreate and have a calming effect for their population. We have an opportunity here and we shouldn’t waste it on vertical development other than trees.

Any monies spent for commercial or housing development should be spent to rehab, reuse, re-purpose what is already built and once that is accomplished then and only then should we build new.

Let’s show some foresight and demonstrate that we can think differently.

I cannot tell you how disappointed I was with this editorial. I have come, like many people, to rely on WTOL for thoughtful, nuanced consideration of local issues and ideas. Unlike the “entertainers” on local radio WTOL has frequently provided careful analysis of the developments related to the University and its relationship to the local economy.

Phytoremediation is emerging as an emerging technology that the University of Toledo among others is attempting to introduce as an effective and fairly inexpensive technique to address the remediation needs of urban brown fields.

I hope against hope that Chirdon might be reading the comments of Michael, yourself and others and, at some future date, have his staff do a story on this environmentally, tax-payer friendly remediation technique.

Joe McNamara remains one of the most thoughtful pols in our area. He and Mike Craig were on target with their carefully considered request for proposals.

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