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Issue 2: Bond to Clean Ohio
Wilson Dizard
Issue date: 10/17/08
Ohioans will decide the fate of the Clean Ohio Fund Act in the general election this November, voting on whether the state should continue the $400 million bond program that aims to preserve and improve Ohio’s environment.
The Clean Ohio ballot initiative, which will appear on the ballot as Issue 2, has support from both Republicans and Democrats in Ohio Congress. According to a Columbus Dispatch poll, 56 percent of voters support the ballot initiative, with 22 percent opposed and another 22 percent undecided.
“The remarkable thing about Clean Ohio is how broad the bipartisan support is,” Carey MacDonald, an Ohio Democratic Caucus policy analyst, said. “It was developed by the Taft Administration and now it’s being expanded by the Strickland Administration. It’s very popular because it’s very successful.”
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Issue 2: Bond to Clean Ohio
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Clean Ohio was one of the only bright spots from Ohio Gov’t over the previous decade. It was put together in a smart way, done as grants to major projects that would clean up abandoned industrial sites for redevelopment. Example in Columbus are the clean up of AC Humko, which is now Harrison Park. As someone who lived by that factory before it closed… this is a gift from above. Beautiful homes, condos and a future riverside park for the neighborhood, replacing a rendering plant that had operated since the Civil War. Clean Ohio grants are also cleaning up the old Columbus Coated Fabrics site along 5th Avenue and the TechneGlas site off of Parsons Avenue. This is a great example of the State, in partnership with the City, leveraging a small public fund to get great private investment.
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