New research by the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission offers fresh evidence that Cleveland and surrounding suburbs would be smart to rezone transit corridors to encourage dense, walkable, transit-oriented development.
CLEVELAND, Ohio — New research by the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission offers fresh evidence that Cleveland and surrounding suburbs would be smart to rezone transit corridors to encourage dense, walkable, transit-oriented development, or TOD.
The county launched the project last fall in collaboration with the City of Cleveland and the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority. A major report released then outlined the argument in favor of strengthening transit-oriented development across the county and identified the 22 corridors where TOD could be encouraged.
A new map based on data gathered by Cuyahoga County documents areas where dense, walkable, transit-oriented development is already taking place along 22 corridors identified by the county. The county is looking at how zoning could be used to strengthen the pattern.Of the total, roughly $2.35 billion worth of development, or more than 81%, occurred within the City of Cleveland. And of that amount, nearly 88%, or almost $2.
But Cierebiej and Hewitt said that the new wave of development shows that to a significant extent, transit-oriented development is already happening in the core of the region because the market is demanding it. The challenge is to encourage it further. Outside of Cleveland, such projects include the new Van Aken Development in Shaker Heights, and the Top of the Hill project in Cleveland Heights, both of which mix apartments and retail, with structured parking concealed behind active, street-facing uses.
Under Ohio law, local governments control land use and zoning. But for at least a decade, Cuyahoga County’s Planning Commission has aided suburbs lacking the in-house capacity to create their own master plans for future development. The county’s new focus on zoning is an outgrowth of that work, Hewitt said.
Another advantage of redeveloping the region’s core is that it could spur equitable investment in low-income minority neighborhoods that have suffered from white flight and decades of disinvestment.
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