Gideon Berger, the senior city planner who’s running point on the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood plan, has posted some updates on the city’s web page. Click here to see the new info. There are links to community-input summaries, a map of future land use, a memo summarizing recommendations for land use and transportation, visualizations for the redevelopment of East 46th Avenue, a photo gallery, and more.
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After reading the alternatives proposed in the (what I believe is) latest EIS draft, I feel the shift north proposal is the best alternative for cummuters, new highway design, and neighborhoods rebirth and over all health and safety, and promotes development opportunities for the neighborhoods and city.
Having said that, I feel the Elyria “tunnel” proposal accomplishes these goals with less disruption, upheaval, eminemt domain issues, and potentially cost. I can imagine an inner city interstate highway tunnel to be quite an engineering feat, but what a win-win alternative this could be if somehow realized! I just can’t imagine that a small section of tunnel could be more difficult or expensive than miles and miles of new elevated and surface highway construction.