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City of Lima seeking community feedback
By Trevor Hubert - thubert@limanews.com
LIMA As the city of Lima looks into the future, city planners are looking for feedback from residents in and around the area.
Local government is encouraging citizens to take the Lima comprehensive plan survey, which is available on the Lima-Allen County Regional Planning Commission (LACRPC) website.
Community feedback will be critical as Lima continues to build a vision for the next two decades, and is in the process of establishing a two-decade plan for the city with the hope that many of Lima’s larger and broader goals can be achieved by 2040.
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Lima may lose metropolitan status
By Sam Shriver - sshriver@limanews.com
Stratton: Economic incentives could be reduced
144 cities, including Lima, could lose their status as a metropolitan area.
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LIMA Lima may lose its designation as a “Metropolitan” area, and with it, funding for a number of housing, transportation and Medicare reimbursement programs.
The Office of Management and Budget is considering a proposal that would make the core city in a metropolitan area have at least 100,000 people, doubling its previous requirement of 50,000. Lima’s population checks in at 72,852.
“Presently Lima/Allen County is considered a Tier 3 Metropolitan with a population between 50,000 and 200,000. Lima is considered a Metropolitan by the inclusion of the surrounding townships in Allen County,” said Dave Stratton, president/CEO of Allen Economic Development Group. “The consideration of a Third Tier Metropolitan changing to 100,000 or more would downgrade Lima to a M