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Prior years. The new ward 11 is great. From west blvd, to 117th and west and from the lake to the south of Cleveland. The new Ward 11 has a chance to be Cleveland's greatest Ward. . I look forward to meet ing
My
Neighbors to the south. No complaints!
I implore Council to vote No on these maps, ask the State for more time, and then seek a new consultant who will create new proposed maps based on keeping neighborhoods together. Thank you.
THE CITY OF CLEVELAND HUMAN RESOURCE DEPARTMENT HAS DOCUMENTED THAT MR. MAFFO-JUDD IS XENOPHOBIC, HOMOPHOBIC AND ANTI - BLACK.
MAFFO-JUDD WAS REMOVE FROM THE CLEVELAND BOMB SQUAD THEN SUED BLACK POLICE CHIEF CALVIN WILLIAM AND BLACK FORMER SAFETY DIRECTOR CARRIE HOWARD.
A JUDGE DISMISS THE LAWSUIT AGAINST THE CITY AND ITS EMPLOYEES IN 2023.
THE CITY OF CLEVELAND HANDLING OF COMPLAINTS AGAINST OFFICER MAFFO-JUDD RAISES CONCERN ABOUT THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION NEGLIGENCE TO PUT THE COMMUNITY AT RISK OR HARM.
THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ALSO REBUKE THE CITY OF CLEVELAND FOR USING AN OUTDATED PROMOTION POLICIES.
"STEVIE WONDER" CAN SEE THAT MAFFO-JUDD IS UNPROFESSIONAL, UNFIT AND UNDESERVING OF LEADERSHIP IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
The decision to group the Detroit Shoreway, and specifically Battery Park, into the new Ward 7, while carving out our immediate neighbors along W 74-W 78th Streets to the south makes no sense. It actually breaks an existing (and long-standing and active Block Club) into two separate wards. I can now walk to new Ward 11 residents by crossing the street, but to reach many of my new Ward 7 counterparts, I literally have to drive 30 minutes away.
Placing the 3 most active NWS neighborhoods (Ohio City, Tremont and Detroit-Shoreway) into a single ward also makes no sense as one councilmember will be hard-pressed to address the issues across all 3 of these actively evolving areas.
Carving the wards into North/South slices like a loaf of bread ignores the already established connections between neighbors across sections grouped more closely and with more common needs (schools, construction, roads, traffic, etc.).
For Ward 11, it is literally IMPOSSIBLE to travel from the north end (Lake Erie) to the south end (basically Brooklyn) by car without LEAVING the Ward with the exception of Ridge Road (which appears to be the dividing line, so if you're driving in the southbound lanes - you might not be in the Ward ...).
The new Ward 11 suspiciously carves out current property - and land with first right of refusal - owned by one developer (JRoc) at the most northeastern end of the Ward - while placing IMMEDIATELY adjacent residents ACROSS the street in Ward 7, so any concerns about future development will need to be addressed to a Councilmember who has no accountability to some of the most impacted residents.
The pressure from City Planning to build high-rise, massed, market rate apartments on the lakefront appears to be well-supported by this new Ward structure, taking the north west section of Ward 15 and breaking it into Ward 11, where the new Councilmember will have to focus from Brooklyn to the Lake, while developers take over everything north of Lake from W 76th to Clifton.
These Wards appear to be designed to the advantage of some entity - because the re-structuring to north/south design is very clear - but it completely ignores the long-standing relationships neighbors have built within our communities - and breaks up vocal and active groups into small pieces falling under different Councilmembers and (in Ward 7) grouping neighborhoods with extremely different goals.
In the new Ward 7, our neighborhood (former Ward 15) has a high concentration of families with school age children (vs. Ohio City and Tremont), so our needs and goals as a community are very different from those neighborhoods. But that appears to not be taken into account by these new maps, either.
These maps do not represent how people in Cleveland live, interact and advocate.
They appear to be drawn to reduce the impact of existing vocal community groups and dilute opposition to goals clearly expressed by members of the current Bibb Administration.
These maps SHOULD NOT be implemented without community input and comment.