​By: Tim Schneider, Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce

At its regular meeting at 4:00 p.m. today, Toledo City Council is expected to vote on Ordinances 89-19 and 90-19 to approve Metroparks Toledo’s zoning applications for its planned riverfront metropark on roughly 89 acres in the Marina District area of East Toledo. The first ordinance would change zoning at the site from regional commercial and general industrial to parks and open space designations. The other would approve a required special use permit for community recreation use of the site. Both requests were previously approved and advanced by Council’s Zoning & Planning Committee. 

​​By: Brian Dicken, Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce

Over the next several weeks, we’ll be taking a deeper dive into the Chamber’s public policy agenda. This week we’ll be taking a look at the transportation section. It is important to understand that the Toledo region is within a day’s drive of more than 100 million people in the United States and Canada. Therefore, it is critical to our economic success to have an efficient and well maintained transportation infrastructure in order to move people, goods and materials. ​

By: Tim Schneider, Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce

At its regular meeting at 4:00 p.m. today, Toledo City Council is expected to vote on Ordinance 42-19, Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz’s proposed 2019-2023 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) budget. The proposal includes $11,512,546 for projects in 2019, of which $8,100,000 is designated for matching and planning dollars, $237,546 for the 1% for the Arts program, and $3,175,000 for new projects. These new projects include $250,000 for the city’s IT network, $400,000 for updates to Levis Square, $150,000 for building inspection permit system updates, $425,000 for landfill EPA compliance, $500,000 for parks and recreation infrastructure, $200,000 for city facility mechanical upgrades, $325,000 for police training range updates, $125,000 for brine equipment, and $800,000 for sidewalk replacement.