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Health & Fitness

'They Paved Paradise To Put Up A Parking Lot'

Why you should vote NO on issue 96!

Do you ever drive down Cedar Road to get downtown? Please, read on!

Please Vote NO on South Euclid issue 96, the Oakwood Golf Course re-zoning referendum. It's important for everyone on the near East Side. Those in other cities, please tell your friends in SE to Vote NO on 96!

  • Goodbye amazingly long unbroken fence that we've all gazed at or glanced at our whole lives.
  • Goodbye pastoral view of the golf course as folks leave their homes and head towards Warrensville Center Road.
  • Goodbye natural grass and soil that handles the draining of so much rain water and snow, and it "Costs Us Nothing."
  • Goodbye all hopes of anything better being accomplished on that property.
  • Hello trucks! Gravel trucks. Asphalt trucks. Concrete trucks. Steel trucks. Cinder-block trucks. Sewer pipe trucks. Thousands and thousands of dump trucks of all descriptions. All day and all night.
  • Hello asphalt, curbs, lighting, signage, trash! My, aren't you an ugly spectacle to look at countless times. Every day. For as long as we live here.
  • Hello nearby flooding! When all those acres of grass and trees are paved over, and can't absorb rain water or melting snow.
  • Hello traffic, accidents, aggravation, crime, some amount of undesirables!
  • Hello grid-lock at Cedar-Warrensville. Then Mayfield-Warrensville. Then Fairmount-Warrensville.

Who would ever want to make such a mistake regarding the Quality Of Life in South Euclid? For money? How much is he saying? Maybe a half million a year? And that figure is way too high. Too little independent data has been produced to be sure of any claims from the developer.

Nobody moved here and bought a house expecting that nice, quiet golf course to become a Big Box Retail monstrosity. "Costs Us Nothing"? Whoever came up with that, doesn't know the *value* of anything.

Vote NO on issue 96!

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