Downtown OR in view of the city’s Blueprint Plan to be discussed at League meeting Special to The Oak Ridger The League of Women Voters of Oak Ridge invites the community to join its virtual gathering of Lunch with the League at noon Tuesday, March 2. The speaker will be Wayne Blasius, director of the Oak Ridge Community Development Department. Guests are invited to access the Zoom presentation by following instructions provided at the close of this article. He became the director of Community Development for the city of Oak Ridge in September 2017. Blasius grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and adopted East Tennessee as his home in 1977. Prior to coming to Oak Ridge, he led the nonprofit East Tennessee Community Design Center from 2014 to 2017 and served as president of the InSite Development Corporation from 2001 to 2015 where he completed major downtown Knoxville historic rehabs such as the Phoenix and Mast General Store and Gallery Lofts. He also consulted on energy management, infrastructure, and sustainability matters for Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Previously in his career, he served as deputy director of the city of Knoxville’s Department of Community Development.