League of Women Voters of Ohio
Hamilton County, OH November 4, 2003 Election
	John Cranley Answers Questions Candidate for Council Member; City of Cincinnati

The questions were prepared by the LWV Cincinnati Area and asked of all candidates for this office.

Read the answers from all candidates.

Questions & Answers

1. How would you implement your top priority?

Having gotten 75 new cops on the street and increased street cleaning, I am now focused on enforcement of quality-of-life laws and targeting blight. I am working to get our prosecutors, building inspe3ctors, health officials, and police to work together to target slum landlords and aggressively combat open-air drug dealing. If the city is clean and safe, it will grow and lead to grater prosperity for all # even bringing hope back to the urban core.

2. Numerous important issues including transportation, land use planning, housing and economic development for the Greater Hamilton County regions are being deliberated by OKI's Land Use Commission and Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission and Planning Partnership COMPASS; how engaged should local government be in these planning activities? If elected, how would you participate in these planning activities?

As the City's representative to OKI, I believe that for the City to survive it needs to work in concert with the region. Currently, I am working to improve access for goods, services and jobs in our existing urban infrastructure by attempting to get an interchange at I-71 & Martin Luther King. I believe this action will curb sprawl, create jobs and opportunities in the urban core, and help shore up our hospitals and universities.

3. Ohio Department of Natural Resources in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Recycling Coalition conducted a state-specific study and found recycling businesses in Ohio generated $650.6 million dollars in state government revenue. If elected how would you promote recycling and support recycling programs currently in place in your community to reduce solid waste generation?

I strongly support the recycling program and will make sure it is not cut as part of the next budget process. Recently, New York Mayor Bloomberg eliminated recycling but then had to reinstate it because it cost more to throw recyclables away. In addition to the economic savings, it is only responsible citizenship not to waste materials that can be used again. We owe that much to our children.