Thursday, August 29, 2024

‘Lakefront plan’ becoming ‘lakefront project’

A part of the city of Cleveland’s lakefront plan that doesn’t get the attention is just
east of downtown where the Shoreway highway would become a boulevard and
East 18th Street is extended from behind the smokestacks at left, down the bluff
on an S-curve toward the foreground to an intersection with the boulevard.
Also a middle portion of the Municipal Parking Lot near a Waterfront Line
light-rail station could be developed with workforce housing (Google).
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One of the most important pieces of legislation regarding the future of Downtown Cleveland’s lakefront is working its way through Cleveland City Council. The proposed ordinance amendment, if passed at council’s next regular meeting Sept. 9, would codify the desired lakefront land-use features and set the city on a course to implement them. In other words, it would no longer be a lakefront plan, but a lakefront project.

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