Maybe they'll wanna buy IKO instead
In its infinite wisdom, the Monroe City Council is looking at allowing a company called Monroe Transfer set up shop at the old Magnimet scrapyard in Orchard East.
This could mean 100 JOBS and after all, it's right between two railroad tracks.
There's going to be a public meeting about it at 6:30 P.M. Monday at the Arthur Lesow center.
If there's any justice in the world, someone will announce plans at the meeting to recall the city council.
If anyone on the council has any sense of history, they will do anything in their power not to inflict another industry on that neighborhood. It began as piss-poor planning and it still is.
But as long as they promise 100 jobs, let's just plop them down in the middle of a place no one wants to live anyway -- except for all those long-suffering residents who literally live within spittin' distance of the site.
Could anyone in the city come up with a more imaginative concept -- like persuading this well-meaning company to set up on port property down the road and around the corner? I mean I know that old scrapyard site is just too valuable to overlook since it would make all the sense in the world for trucks to drive an extra quarter mile into residential areas and then go back out to 75.
It also wouldn't be very productive to try to persuade someone like Crosswinds to buy the land for future RESIDENTIAL development because, I mean, we're talking about 100 JOBS. We all want one of those jobs, don't we? We're all gonna get one, aren't we?
Let's see, if I recall Monroe Transfer was rebuffed by that nasty old last council. So it only makes sense that we'd try to undo that too.
Maybe we can convince IKO to come back to town -- think of all the JOBS.
Wait, I got it! Why don't we pool our money with the community and have Monroe Transfer set up on all that IHM acreage that looks like it's destined to be nothing but stupid old parkland. Besides, that'll free up the old scrapyard site for something even more offensive. And while we're at it, let's forget about that dumb old rail consolidation plan. Those people have lived with trains roaring by their homes for decades. Heck if all of a sudden the trains disappear, they won't be able to sleep at night.
Hey, an even better idea -- get Monroe Transfer to buy the IKO site. Not only will we get JOBS, we'll get that old Compora's goat!
On second thought, forget I even mentioned recall. This council deserves as much time as possible to drive several more stakes through their stony hearts.
This could mean 100 JOBS and after all, it's right between two railroad tracks.
There's going to be a public meeting about it at 6:30 P.M. Monday at the Arthur Lesow center.
If there's any justice in the world, someone will announce plans at the meeting to recall the city council.
If anyone on the council has any sense of history, they will do anything in their power not to inflict another industry on that neighborhood. It began as piss-poor planning and it still is.
But as long as they promise 100 jobs, let's just plop them down in the middle of a place no one wants to live anyway -- except for all those long-suffering residents who literally live within spittin' distance of the site.
Could anyone in the city come up with a more imaginative concept -- like persuading this well-meaning company to set up on port property down the road and around the corner? I mean I know that old scrapyard site is just too valuable to overlook since it would make all the sense in the world for trucks to drive an extra quarter mile into residential areas and then go back out to 75.
It also wouldn't be very productive to try to persuade someone like Crosswinds to buy the land for future RESIDENTIAL development because, I mean, we're talking about 100 JOBS. We all want one of those jobs, don't we? We're all gonna get one, aren't we?
Let's see, if I recall Monroe Transfer was rebuffed by that nasty old last council. So it only makes sense that we'd try to undo that too.
Maybe we can convince IKO to come back to town -- think of all the JOBS.
Wait, I got it! Why don't we pool our money with the community and have Monroe Transfer set up on all that IHM acreage that looks like it's destined to be nothing but stupid old parkland. Besides, that'll free up the old scrapyard site for something even more offensive. And while we're at it, let's forget about that dumb old rail consolidation plan. Those people have lived with trains roaring by their homes for decades. Heck if all of a sudden the trains disappear, they won't be able to sleep at night.
Hey, an even better idea -- get Monroe Transfer to buy the IKO site. Not only will we get JOBS, we'll get that old Compora's goat!
On second thought, forget I even mentioned recall. This council deserves as much time as possible to drive several more stakes through their stony hearts.
posted by The Observer at 3/08/2007 01:30:00 PM
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Thanks again John. Spoken just like a true politician.
Let me please comment.
Monroe City Council is looking at the possible rezoning of property on which Monroe Transfer wishes to open a recycling plant. True, this could bring up to 100 much needed jobs to Monroe. If at the meeting someone announces to recall me, give me good reason and I will be the first signature on the recall petition. Making a decision, one way or another, is not good enough reasoning. I can present you with a list of people who wish to see jobs brought in, if you would care to see.
History is what it is, history. The property was zoned I2 and operated as a recycling operation. Had it been I1, under the previous permitted use guidelines, a recycling center still would be allowed. Since the language has changed to now include non heavy machinery use, this is not permitted, and has given another legal argument to Monroe Transfer, in addition to the fact that the property was rezoned in an attempt to disallow their intended use, which was the same as the previous usage.
Ah, the Port property. This was presented as an option. However, it seems that Monroe Transfer didn't wish to invest $4,000,000 in order to make the site usable to them, especially when the site they already own meets their needs.
I'm not sure who you are, but you must be kidding about anyone wanting to build residential in between these railroad tracks. Want to put up your own money to do that? You'll find out how great of an idea that is.
As for the last Council's decision, WHO CARES. GET OVER IT. This is now, and we are certainly in a new environment and ECONOMY. Monroe needs jobs. Talk to merchants, grocery store operators, restaurant owners, bar owners, REALTORS, etc. No one has the money that they once had. The economic uncertainty we face is scary. Perhaps you are one of the few super wealthy who doesn't care about jobs, investments, taxes, etc. If so then congratulations. Maybe you should buy the land and put in a soup kitchen and sleeping quarters for everyone who may soon be losing their jobs and ultimately their homes.
IKO is gone also, so again, GET OVER IT. Although this property could still be used as a recycling center, heavy machinery sales/service, welding shop, etc. No smells from any of that, right?
Let me finish by saying that my heart is far from stony. I choose to post on this ridiculous blog, simply to refute this claim against my intentions. I choose to use my real name in an effort to give reader the option to choose to believe whomever they want, and the reasons behind what I say. Your claims are a willful attack meant to give credability to what? You make very little sense, and by your statement about the IHM property, you show that you have little dignity. Probably the reason for your anonymous postings.
Ditto!!!!!!!!!!!
I've already told Brian someone is impersonating him on this blog and he just can't believe it!
Well, if it is Beneteau, that's nice. But who cares? Does that make his opinion any more or less special than if he signed his name like me and most of the rest of the posters here: Anonymous
Seems like no one has to be held accountable here for anything they say or think, even if it really is Beneteau.
Trust me. It is I. You absolutely know where I can be found every day from 10-5. That's 242-5840 if you care to discuss. Sorry to say that is not the same with "the observer's" identity. We'll all just keep guessing as to who this poster is who really doesn't know all of which they speak.
Hey, let's not fight about it, folks. But if it really is Brian, maybe he can apply his imagination to the Monroe Transfer issue or at least expand on why alternatives won't work.
For example, if the city's simply afraid of a lawsuit from a big old scary company (which seems odd since in the past it didn't shy away from a disabled advocacy group and paid dearly for it), it should just fess up to it and not pretend we're interested in jobs. Because as most business people will testify, the city makes it extremely difficult to run a business whether it provides one job or 100. Did the city even bring in the state to see if it would offer incentives for an alternative site? And yeah, I am kidding about residential. Who would think of investing millions in an old industrial site near railroad tracks (like those places in Mason Run and the Townes on Front Street that are on once-contaminated property and now have new residences that are almost closer to tracks than rail crossing arms)? Who would be so stupid to put up condos along Kentucky Ave across from a rail line? Hey, it just doesn't happen in America today does it? Actually, last time I checked, it's still happening. It's called smart growth, not stupid old once an industrial site always an industrial site growth. If you really are Brian, question what people tell you about their intentions, don't just swallow it. Ask why not? Why can't we do better? No I'm not super wealthy, and I talk to a lot of people around town who will gripe about not making as much as a few years ago, but the only place that's going to go belly up is city hall because it has had a HISTORY of chasing people away and soon won't have the revenue needed to run streetsweepers on off shifts in the rain, or ice arenas that suck away every spare tax dollar, or a police department that mainly excels in writing traffic tickets, but not fighting real crime.
IKO is gone, get over it? Hey, why don't you make that your next campaign slogan, if you dare.
Mentioning the IHM means I have little dignity? What, are you Catholic? It was a satirical comment that obviously flew way over your head. So I'll slow down and explain it: The chances of anything so intrusive as a truck terminal going on the IHM property -- a stone's throw from the mayor's house -- is about as likely as Compora cutting the ribbon when you guys lure IKO back - for its jobs.
Think about this, since you were at the meeting at ALCC last night. Which alternatives are there? The entire group, which showed up in support of rezoning, does not want ANYTHING on this property in question. BTW, that would be all eighteen of them.
As for questioning Monroe Transfer, I have. I like what they present. I will go up to their Detroit plant and see for myself how that operation runs. I also will not chase them away. You seem to know alot about trying to chase them away. Perhaps trying to lure them into the Port was your idea. Then you could "plan" a residential development for the Third St. property. I'd like to see how long those would set on the market. Probably longer than the condos on Kentucky you referenced, which would be a very long time. A project like that would be good reason to go bankrupt (any experience with that?).
Trust me, you don't need to speak slowly for me to get what you say or where you are coming from. Just stay in the dark, and let your puppet speak your words.
Oh, and yes, I am Catholic. Maybe you should convert so that you can learn some values.
If everyone doesn't want anything on the site, then why not turn it into a nicely developed park, which I don't think really exists in that area of town. That, of course, would be impossible because no one ever thinks of the possibilities. And, yeah, that's a perfect posture for government -- if everyone says they don't want something, do it anyway. You really do know what's best for them and when some issue arises in you're neighborhood, you really know what's best for you. It's really a win-win situation, isn't it? I admire you for that. I wish you luck on your fact-finding mission, too. But I pose this question: If you don't like what you see, hear or smell on your visit, will you still refuse to "chase them away?"
And of course I knew you were Catholic! I guess I'll just stay away from the satirical references from now on. But I certainly hope whatever decision you and your council colleagues make on this one, it does turn out to be the right one.
Who is going to pay for this park?
I suppose you think Monroe Transfer will just sign it over - and oh yes - they will also clean up all the contamination and plant grass and trees.
I want some of the stuff you smoke.
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