Everything has its place in Mayfield Heights. Townhouses don’t belong in the middle of an executive office park.
Yes! 107 Fixes Council’s mistake.
People love it here and companies want to be here. City Council suspended its rules to drop townhouses into an executive office park, giving up the jobs and revenues that keep our city’s taxes down.
Yes! 107 Protects revenue for our police, fire, and city services.
The executive office jobs on Parkland Blvd. generate the income-tax revenue that funds our police, our fire, and city services. Townhouse owners who work elsewhere pay the city very little, and property taxes go mostly to the schools. Trading office jobs for townhouses will hurt our city’s ability to fund the services we depend on.
Yes! 107 Blocks a proposed 30-year, $9.3 million subsidy to the developer.
On top of trading away the office jobs that fund our city, the plan proposes a 30-year tax incentive (TIF). According to its own documents, the developer would get about $9.3 million in public funds to build this. A YES vote takes that proposed subsidy off the table. It makes no sense to give a public subsidy to a developer in a community where the office owners invest millions and ask for nothing but a well-run city in return. This is just bad for our community.
Yes! 107 Prevents 61 townhouses on a single lot.
Council rezoned a single lot to allow 61 townhouses in the middle of a working office park, next to corporate headquarters. That’s a neighborhood’s worth of housing, and it belongs in a neighborhood, not on one lot in an office corridor.
City Council’s choice to change land designated for job and revenue creating executive offices was a big mistake. They rushed it through and gave away the zoning before there was even a final plan. Rezoning this land is a permanent decision, and it deserved a real process. Instead, it happened in one night in May. Council suspended its own rules, read the ordinance by title only, and passed it following a hearing that lasted about four minutes. Most residents never even knew it was happening.
When residents pushed back and Council heard the facts, things changed. President Pro Tem Kathy Telban moved to restore executive office zoning. Council members Michael Buffa and King Miner also decided to stand with the community and voted with her. It was one vote less than needed, so now we’re coming together to fix Council’s mistake by Voting YES! 107.
Join your neighbors. Get involved, and most importantly, vote YES! 107.
Issue 107 is not a tax increase.
It fixes Council’s mistake.
Thank You!
Three members of Council voted to adopt the ordinance residents petitioned for. We are grateful to them for listening.
- Kathy Telban
Council President Pro Tem - Michael Buffa
Councilman - King Miner
Councilman
The Petitioners
The committee that filed and circulated the initiative petition. All of them are Woodhawk Drive neighbors.
- Diane Agresta
Woodhawk Drive - Robert Agresta
Woodhawk Drive - Ivona Tietz-Golczak
Woodhawk Drive - Marcin B. Golczak
Woodhawk Drive - Elvera Ranallo
Woodhawk Drive
We are your neighbors, and we would love your help.