The Municipal Services and Properties Committee convened on September 23, 2025, to consider a series of routine land-use ordinances and three major discussion items. The committee unanimously approved several street vacations and an encroachment permit, and advanced a new ordinance authorizing the use of under-speed vehicles (golf carts) for legitimate business purposes, along with a compensation adjustment for City Planning Commission alternates.
Present. Thank you, Director. Uh come on. 719-2025 by Councilmember Centana Bishop and Harrison by Department of Request and Emergency Order to authorize the director of Capital Projects to issue a permit to the Northeast Ohio Hispanic Center for Economic Development to encroach into a public right-of-way of West 25th Street by installing using maintaining billboards along the building uh front that has been heard and passed by municipal services province director. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So this is uh an encroachment ordinance and it relates to the um the building that's owned by uh the Ohio Hispanic Center for Economic Development uh known as Centrovilla on West 25th Street, and the encroachment request is to put in uh bollards along the building on West 25th Street, and it's to improve pedestrian safety as well as to provide additional protection for the building, which over the years has been struck by uh by vehicles. Um as I acknowledged at the previous committee, the ballads the ballards are in um the organization did install the bollards uh without city permission, and we are working with them uh to ensure that the ballards were installed properly and installed in the right location. Um this ordinance once it's passed gives this gives us the approval to authorize those ballards to remain. Got it, sound good. Yes, I uh where the I know the balls are talking about. That it did some great work to restore this uh facility in um you know a simple piece like this helps them. Any questions from the committee? See no further questions, ordinance number seven nineteen dash twenty twenty-five stands approved. Ordinance number nine five five dash twenty twenty-five by council members McCormick Bishop and Harrison by departmental request, and emergency orders declared the intent to vacate all of the unnamed alleys south of Abbey Avenue. Um Mr. Uh Chairman, so uh just a reminder to to council members that the vacation process is a three-step process. The resolution of intent to vacate, which this is is the first of that three-step process. Then the the request goes to the board of revision of assessments. If approved there, then it comes back to council for an ordinance to actually vacate the roadway. So um as mentioned, this is the first step. This is the intent to vacate an unnamed alley that goes just south of Abbey Avenue. And there are uh two property owners that are abutting this, and they're both uh coming together to request the vacation. And the idea is that they would it's just a paper alley, uh there's no actual pavement there, but the request is that they would have a shared access drive that would support the development that they're jointly doing adjacent to this property. Sounds good. Also heard of municipal services and properties. Councilman Cormac supports he does. Thank you. Any questions from the committee? Emergency resolution declaring. And to the members 56, 57, 58 are all related to the same project that we'll hear from uh the guests uh loc this morning. Uh Mr. Chairman, so I'll I'll start out by saying that these um all three uh resolutions of incentive vacate relate to um West Third Street, which is um adjacent to the Bedrock project. And um I uh I wanted to emphasize that the first one is to vacate a portion of the roadway, this 956 2025 that's at the very end of West Third Street as it hits the Cuyahoga River, and this is where uh the Bedrock Project intends to construct uh kayak launch in a future uh portion of the project. Um the second am I reading all three at the same time? The second resolution uh 957-2025 is to um vacate um a portion of West Third Street in front of the Cavs Clinic and the Cavs and the Cleveland Clinic building that's currently under construction, and the intent is to uh have a uniform width of West Third Street. Um this is a portion of West Third Street that had an extra wide width to allow for a ramp onto the old Eagle Avenue Bridge, which has been demolished for several years. So this really just uh creates a uniform width all the way down West Third Street, and then the third one, which is resolution five or nine five eight twenty twenty-five, is um also um uh a resolution that will create uh a uniform width. Um the reason we have two ordinances is that um there's a different LLC limited liability company that owns adjacent to each of those parcels. So we have a separate uh resolution for each. Um so with that um I'll I'll um turn it over to Jean-Michel Lemon, who's uh consultant for the Bedrock Project for any additional details. All right, good morning. Ms. Morning. Thank you. As was shared, the uh the consistency of the right-of-way is is the key focus here. So in in front in the frontage of the two parcels where there's 103.5 feet of right-of-way, we're looking to bring that down to 70 so that it's uniform for the the entire north-south corridor. So that's the uh the main consistency that we're that we're looking to bring forward here. Okay, thank you. Uh, any questions from the committee on the first piece, which is 956 2025?