GREENCITYBLUELAKE: MORE RIDING ON SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PLAN AS OHIO CUYTS $55M FROM LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

April 4, 2011 in GreenCityBlueLake

Even more is riding on the $4.5 million regional transportation / housing / land-use Sustainable Communities plan— headed by former Cleveland Planning Director Hunter Morrison—as Gov. Kasich’s budget cuts $555 millionfrom the Local Government Fund. Ready or not, Northeast Ohio’s seven counties are now faced with the prospect of getting smarter about co-locating housing and transportation. The cost to maintain so many redundant municipalities and their infrastructure—such as new roads—are hidden in the small print of buying a house in a sprawl area. But the bill is coming due. Can one plan start to reverse decades of policy and subsidies from the state that resulted in sprawl? (go to article)

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