Paul Meehan http://paulmeehan.com Vote Paul Meehan, Ventura City Council 2013 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:49:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Open Space http://paulmeehan.com/open-space/ http://paulmeehan.com/open-space/#comments Sat, 21 Sep 2013 12:23:58 +0000 http://paulmeehan.com/?p=145 I applaud the goals and achievements of the SOAR initiative. I intend to continue to protect open spaces as they are important for a number of reasons. Some include: Wildlife corridors, CO2 Absorption, O2 production water table replenishment etc.

Another Open Space tentative plan is being worked on to convert a parking lot in Midtown Ventura into an open space park. It’s called the Midtown Commons Park. I applaud this effort and will put my weight into moving it forward.

See the full details here: http://www.midtownventura.org/park.html

]]> http://paulmeehan.com/open-space/feed/ 0 The West Side of Ventura http://paulmeehan.com/the-west-side-of-ventura/ http://paulmeehan.com/the-west-side-of-ventura/#comments Sat, 21 Sep 2013 09:56:00 +0000 http://paulmeehan.com/?p=140 Ventura Avenue used to be the main road through Ventura. It’s been a long time since that has been true. For many years areas around the west side have been blighted, abandoned and in disrepair. It’s almost as if West Ventura is a separate town from the rest. Much of that stems from the abandoned Shell Chemical Plant. Closed in 1984, the facility has been left to rust, leak hazardous materials and attract vandals and the homeless to set up camps. My goal is to help cleanup that substantially depressed but amazingly beautiful area. (if you look around, ignoring the facility, it’s really beautiful). I would help turn that into a viable , useful and more beautiful location for many activities. The westside would greatly benefit from a project like the Ventura Community Park in the East End. I envision a West End gem that has soccer fields, Softball fields, Indoor roller derby, bicycle trails, retail shops etc. Once that area is attractive and useful then the surrounding areas will increase in their attractiveness as well. A sense of pride is infectious.

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