Dear Editor:

Councilman McCarthy’s letter to the editor last week was chockful of clues as to the actual intent of city officials toward the Heights. He wrote of the “vision” of how Perrysburg should look over the next 10 to 20 years without, apparently, any regard for how the Heights residents want their community to look in that timeframe.

He mentions how the consultants somehow originally managed to create a plan that showed the Heights as “an upscale, expensive residential area.”

Golly, I wonder how the consultants could have possibly come up with that?

The councilman adds that the plan, as it has evolved, never impacted the “vast majority” of the Heights. What does that mean? That there will be some collateral damage to the Heights that just can’t be helped?

Mr. McCarthy goes on to tell us the intended idea is to figure out a way to transition between the commercial uses on Route 25 and the Heights behind.

Here’s a thought: stop adding more and more commercial clutter to the area.

The councilman continues to wade through his council’s denial of annexing the Heights by saying that their plan is “attempting to have high quality commercial development along Route 25 fit as harmoniously as possible with the residential Heights community.”

What that seems to mean is that the city is going to nice up the area now, while keeping the grand prize of the Heights real estate in their sight lines for another time, when the Heights residents have their backs turned.

We’re trying to preserve the integrity–and real estate –of the Heights community, whether we live there or not. We are happy to stand up and defend the Heights residents. Saying that the city isn’t interested in taking the Heights is a lot like Putin saying he wasn’t planning to invade Ukraine.

Kelly Meister-Yetter