For the past 92 years, the city of Cleveland has seen its share of buildings razed and erected, streets widened and others narrowed, trees planted in lots and parking spaces in others. And for that same amount of time, the city's operated under—relatively speaking, save for a smattering of edits—the same set of zoning laws.
Lynette Stover, a resident living on Chester Avenue in Hough, shared her concerns for Form-Based Code zoning on Tuesday at City Council.
"When we're talking about the goals of this code, we're talking about creating a more healthier, safer, more sustainable, and more equitable community for all of Cleveland residents," Shannan Leonard, a city planner who spearheaded the work on the Form-Based overall, told the committee on Tuesday."Including my own children, you know, my own family. This is the step in the right direction.
But the code overhaul takes that city feel, Leonard said, a step further. Everything in the public realm—that space long ignored by zoning of yesteryear—will have both design specs and rule considerations. Through a handful of community meetings, where residents got to pitch re-zoning ideas on Post-It notes, came a thorough understanding for both parties: neighborsTuesday's presentation brought a full house of those who helped draft its 200 pages of code updates in the past seven, eight years.
"If we allow properties to be turned from two units to three units or two units to four units or one unit to four units, then we're going to invite, by market force, more investors into our city, to purchase properties and turn into more rentals," Councilman Kris Harsh said.
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