Who is going to be the first person to call this out? [1]
See also, Hunter Morrison editorial in today's Plain Dealer.
The reality Hunter Morrison conveniently fails to take into account as he is paid to sell the interests of the Ashtabula port? That the Cuyahoga River is dredged and will be dredged again to support the existing industries and 10,000 mari-time jobs cited by Adam Wasserman. [3]
Plain Dealer--it would be nice if you could and would link to the Stan Eckstut proposal, but frankly I don't care to visit yet another taxpayer-funded plan and another round of the bullshit game being played on US in NEO.
Moving the existing port, especially at enormous taxpayer cost, does not have to be the only option as we've been led to believe, but if we do move it and build it on dredged land, because the Cuyahoga River will be dredged--we should follow the plan already approved by neighborhood stakeholders and the Planning Commission, the City of Cleveland's 2004 Waterfront Plan [4], which places the Port just north of the existing bulk terminal and Whiskey Island in a new harbor inlet.
http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/lakefront/iactive/poster/waterfront_poster.pdf [5]
Links:
[1] http://clevelanddesigncity.com/2009/10/08/cleveland-scene-lake-effect-snow-job/
[2] http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/10/why_not_take_a_regional_approa.html
[3] http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/10/solid_facts_must_rule_the_deba.html
[4] http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/lakefront/
[5] http://planning.city.cleveland.oh.us/lakefront/iactive/poster/waterfront_poster.pdf