15-minute city Archives

10 Ways Cleveland’s New ‘Smart Code’ Will Greatly Change the City’s Feel in Decades to Come

From parking lots to trees, public spaces to windows, the way Cleveland is built is evolving

Once made law, it’ll be the first major revision of Cleveland’s zoning code in 92 years

And lighten the load on their public records department which handled 33,000 requests last year

Both are major prongs in the administration’s goal of making Cleveland a 15-minute city

Kuri seeks to “not to have Midtown feel like a pass through” and Cleveland to be “one connected city”

The city is pursuing two key avenues: a change to zoning laws and incentives for transit-oriented development that doesn’t plan around parking