Cleveland putting words into action and of course I find something wrong with it.

Local experts in the fields of Contamination/Remediation, Greenspace Expansion, Stormwater Management, Urban Agriculture, Alternative Energy and Land Assembly are working on an answer to Cleveland's vacant land woes, and will have recommendations for a more sustainable solution by May, and an action plan by June.

Here is a link to the article: ReImagine a more sustainable Cleveland becomes a priority at the city

The Mayor of Cleveland the Council have went to Japan and China, supposedly, to find inspiration for the new city plan. In Asia, the waste-to-energy power plants popping up are providing inspiration to Cleveland and the Cleveland municipal solid waste-to-energy plant is in the works. Also, large-scale urban farms, like the Hantz Farm in Detroit, and G-tech in Pittsburgh are being considered as templates for Cleveland city plans.

But all is not too rosy: treehugger.com has a critical eye on the starter of Hartz farm, John Hantz, a white real-estator in a city that is 82% black. I commend the critical eye of the person writing the article, an architect who has had plenty of experience with developers and real-estate people. It is completely necessary to be critical of those popping up in blighted cities to absorb all the vacant land at a cheap price with intentions to get the land up to a point that it will never sell as low again. It seems like a catch-22 in trust. Are these business men really looking to change the tide of development in poorer areas?Or are they wanting to have a monopoly on the land guaranteed to appreciate in price with green development strategies? I would be more skeptical if the end product wasn't a farm that fed local neighborhoods in food deserts. Something is unnerving in considering all this vacant land going to one person...Let's hope we consider the potential pit-falls to some of the plans we are looking to reproduce here.