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Committee approves project-development agreement enabling four Cleveland trail projects, accepts federal grant funding
Summary
A City Council committee approved Ordinance 496-2025 authorizing a project-development agreement with Cleveland Metroparks to design and build four trail segments, using federal RAISE funding and city bond proceeds.
A City Council committee approved Ordinance 496-2025, authorizing the director of capital projects to enter a project-development agreement with the Board of Park Commissioners of the Cleveland Metroparks to design, build and manage four trail projects within Cleveland.
The agreement covers four corridors: the Slavic Village Downtown Connector North, the Morgana Run/Booth Avenue extension, the Euclid Creek Greenway extension and the Opportunity Corridor Connector. City staff and Cleveland Metroparks planners told the committee the projects were developed from the countywide Cuyahoga Greenways plan and advanced through a federal RAISE planning grant. The committee was told a later RAISE construction award—around $19,500,000—targets the Slavic Village Downtown Connector North and the Morgana Run extension.
Why it matters: staff said the trail projects fill critical network gaps on the east side of the Cuyahoga River and will…
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