First Suburbs Are Feeling The Urban Core's Pain

11 February 2005 - 5:00am

Cleveland's older suburbs hope to fight new projects that will drain more people from the aging suburbs.

"Cleveland's older suburbs don't expect to stop construction of a freeway interchange that they say will drain more people and businesses from Cuyahoga County, but leaders hope to win similar battles down the road...First Suburbs Consortium says projects like a proposed third I-90 interchange in Avon, just across the Lorain County border, disperse Northeast Ohio's population. The shift consumes farmland and saps older communities, says the letter, which also went to the county mayors' association."

Source: The Cleveland Plain Dealer, February 10, 2005
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For the past half century we have been building communities for the wrong reasons. We built them to sell cars. This created all sorts of problems.