League of Women Voters of Ohio
Hamilton County, OH November 4, 2003 Election
	Eric Wilson 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?

I would use my office to push for more resources, funding, and manpower to be allocated to neighborhood development. I would try to set up a timeline and strategic planning for our neighborhood in order to ensure some type of structured progress.

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?

I think local government should be involved in the long-term strategic planning for our region but the day-to-day activities should be left for the county to implement. If elected, I would try to implement a format so that local projects and regional ones could work more cohesively so that we could have a more unified plan for our region.

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 would try to maximize the impact of our current program then look at other programs throughout the state that might be more successful than ours and see if we can implement some of their practices that have proven successful.