One set of city staff worked for three years to get an application in for this grant while the city planning department made the gas station owner at W 6th & Blair wait almost six months for his permits to replace his leaking underground gas tanks.

If we're going to take brownfield clean-up seriously in Eugene, and we should, then perhaps we can find a way to expedite clean-up efforts on brownfields that aren't abandoned by issuing the permits for such clean-ups without unnecessary delays.

As usual, the only way for such a thing to happen will be to fire Jon Ruiz, the worst city manager in history.