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Court decision frustrates lake rights group By Larry Limpf News Editor news@presspublications.com

Northwood accident

A car with one driver, and a truck (with two people inside) were involved in a traffic accident at the corner of Curtice and Bradner roads on Wednesday, Sept. 26. One person was transported to St. Charles Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to Northwood Fire Chief Joel Whitmore. Whitmore said diesel fuel leaked from the truck, into a ditch, which required the EPA to be contacted. The truck is responsible for the hazardous material cleanup, he said. Top photo, a tow truck prepares to flip the truck. (Press photo by Ken Grosjean). Bottom left, the car involved was flipped. Bottom right, the tow truck lifts a wood chipper out of the ditch. The chipper was being pulled by the truck. (Submitted photos)

Chipotle Mexican Grill coming to Oregon Two building permits have been approved by the City of Oregon for a Chipotle Mexican Grill Restaurant at 2924 Navarre Avenue, according to James Gilmore, the building and zoning commissioner in Oregon. A Frisch’s Big Boy Restaurant that is now closed at that location at the intersection of Navarre Ave. and Harbor Dr. is currently being renovated for Chipotle. “One of the permits that was approved was for the shell of the building - to get it ready for Chipotle’s people to come in and make their alterations inside,” said Gilmore. The other permit was for the interior refurbishing of the building. Gilmore said Chipotle is not required to pull any more permits for the restaurant. “All of the permits they need have been issued,” he said. A sun room with curved glass that was part of the Big Boy Restaurant design was torn off as part of the renovation, said

Investors were looking around and trying to zero in on bringing it here, working out the details.

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Gilmore. “They reduced some of the building footprint and removed some of the additions,” he added. “The shell of the building has already been altered.” Mercy St. Charles Hospital sold the building for $750,000 on July 27 of this year. Kenneth Hicks is the developer of the property, said Gilmore.

Chipotle was not required to submit a site plan since there was no new construction at the site. Drive-through The Chipotle Mexican Grill will be the first in Northwest Ohio to have a drive through window, according to Gilmore. It also has a liquor permit to sell margaritas in the restaurant, he added. “They applied for a liquor permit, and I was asked to OK it. We do that prior to the state issuing the license. So that has already been done,” said Gilmore. Mayor Mike Seferian said there were three previous attempts in the last seven years to get a Chipotle Mexican Grill in Oregon. “Three other times when we had people interested in locating a Chipotle’s here, and they didn’t happen,” he said. “That wasn’t gossip or a rumor. There were legitimate inquiries by legitimate people who could obtain a franchise. But little things can go wrong. If one little detail didn’t

The decision by the Ohio Supreme Court to bar a citizens’ initiative – The Lake Erie Bill of Rights – from the Nov. 6 ballot came as little surprise to Terry Lodge, an environmental attorney who helped draft the proposed initiative. Two days before the state Supreme Court handed down its decision on Sept. 21, Lodge, who is affiliated with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, spoke to members of the group, Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie, and told them he wasn’t optimistic the court would find favor with the initiative. He also had little good to say about the current environmental regulatory model, calling it “fixed.” The CELDF drafted the bill of rights for the lake at the request of the community group, Toledoans for Safe Water, which then gathered almost 11,000 signatures to qualify the measure for the ballot. Had it reached the ballot and passed, it would have amended the Toledo city charter by stating the lake and its watershed have a right to exist, flourish and naturally evolve; that city residents have a right to a clean and healthy Lake Erie. A corporation or entity that violated the rights of the lake could be prosecuted and held civilly liable. Although the clerk of Toledo City Council authorized the Lucas County Board of Elections to put the initiative on the ballot, the board on Aug. 28 voted 4-0 to reject it on the grounds it contained provisions that are beyond the authority of the city to enact. Toledoans for Safe Water then filed with the state Supreme Court for a writ of mandamus to void the board of elections decision and have the initiative placed on the ballot. Among other arguments, the appeal for a writ contended the board of elections is “... constitutionally barred from deciding whether the proposed charter amendment conforms to a legal standard or interpretation of Ohio. The BOE is strictly limited to reviewing the sufficiency of the petition Continued on page 2

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