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Decorum
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Data Center development
My name is Amanda Joan Quimper, also known as "Amanda Joan of Heart". I am an independent journalist, filmmaker, and community advocate.
I am asking Cleveland City Council to extend the current moratorium and adopt strong, enforceable protections before approving any new data center.
These facilities are not ordinary commercial buildings. They can consume enormous amounts of electricity and water, require major grid and utility upgrades, operate industrial cooling equipment and diesel backup generators, and create continuous noise, air and light pollution near residential neighborhoods.
Before granting any permit, tax incentive, zoning change, or public assistance, Cleveland should require the developer to publicly disclose the project’s entire planned build-out—not just its first phase.
That disclosure should include the total acreage, peak electrical demand, expected annual electricity use, daily and annual water consumption, source of the water, wastewater impacts, cooling system, backup-generator emissions, projected noise levels, utility and transmission upgrades, tax incentives, and the actual number of permanent jobs.
The city must also determine who will pay for new electrical, water, sewer, road, and emergency-service infrastructure. Families and small businesses should never be forced to subsidize a multibillion-dollar corporation or bear higher utility costs because of its enormous resource demands.
Cleveland should require an independent environmental and community-impact study, paid for by the developer but selected and controlled by the city. It should examine cumulative impacts from all existing and proposed facilities—not evaluate each project in isolation.
Finally, residents deserve early notice, complete records, neighborhood hearings, and enough time to respond before any decision is made.
Technology should serve humanity—not consume our communities without transparency, accountability, and consent.
Please protect Cleveland’s people, water, land, air, electrical grid, and future before opening the door to irreversible development.
Thank you.
I am asking Cleveland City Council to extend the current moratorium and adopt strong, enforceable protections before approving any new data center.
These facilities are not ordinary commercial buildings. They can consume enormous amounts of electricity and water, require major grid and utility upgrades, operate industrial cooling equipment and diesel backup generators, and create continuous noise, air and light pollution near residential neighborhoods.
Before granting any permit, tax incentive, zoning change, or public assistance, Cleveland should require the developer to publicly disclose the project’s entire planned build-out—not just its first phase.
That disclosure should include the total acreage, peak electrical demand, expected annual electricity use, daily and annual water consumption, source of the water, wastewater impacts, cooling system, backup-generator emissions, projected noise levels, utility and transmission upgrades, tax incentives, and the actual number of permanent jobs.
The city must also determine who will pay for new electrical, water, sewer, road, and emergency-service infrastructure. Families and small businesses should never be forced to subsidize a multibillion-dollar corporation or bear higher utility costs because of its enormous resource demands.
Cleveland should require an independent environmental and community-impact study, paid for by the developer but selected and controlled by the city. It should examine cumulative impacts from all existing and proposed facilities—not evaluate each project in isolation.
Finally, residents deserve early notice, complete records, neighborhood hearings, and enough time to respond before any decision is made.
Technology should serve humanity—not consume our communities without transparency, accountability, and consent.
Please protect Cleveland’s people, water, land, air, electrical grid, and future before opening the door to irreversible development.
Thank you.
Amanda Quimper
Need for traffic light / speed cameras
I live at the corner of Ashbury Ave and E 105th St. This corner is home to Veterans Affairs Housing, shops and restaurants, and is frequented by many people and children. I've found it extraordinarily frequent that cars will run the red light when traveling on E 105th. I have nearly been hit several times when waiting to cross the street, and often times still do not feel safe crossing when the crosswalk light is on because of the carelessness of drivers at this intersection. This intersection is in desperate need of traffic cameras to enforce the traffic and speeding laws and protect the people and children around the Veterans Affairs Hospital and Housing, and the Glenvillage Area.
Brian Kratt
"Gulf of Cleveland"
I would like to thank you for renaming the large body of water near you. This is perfect. Your message is uplifting.
Sincerely, Deborah Scotello
Sincerely, Deborah Scotello
Deborah Scotello
Public Comment Decorum
Suggestions:
Response from mayor upon conclusion of public comment even if that’s simply an acknowledgement, I’m not familiar with the concern, a variation of the statement: that concern will require additional details before being addressed. The feedback can even be provided at the next meeting. That’ll boost moral.
The Councilman of respective area provide a response with opportunity for others to chime in especially council president.
City issues, chief of department.
Comments aren’t simply to complain as much as to share suggestions, concerns and grievances.
Response from mayor upon conclusion of public comment even if that’s simply an acknowledgement, I’m not familiar with the concern, a variation of the statement: that concern will require additional details before being addressed. The feedback can even be provided at the next meeting. That’ll boost moral.
The Councilman of respective area provide a response with opportunity for others to chime in especially council president.
City issues, chief of department.
Comments aren’t simply to complain as much as to share suggestions, concerns and grievances.
Community
The explosion that happened in Garden valley apartments
yep this is kyanna Bell again still here still mentally exhausted still mad big big mad we want fucking answers real shit what the fuck we are human we deserve respect we got the right to know what the fuck took our king way from us now we living without him and it's like y'all don't give a fuck about us low income people yeah I can't afford the finer things in life like you all got but what we had was good enough it was ours I work hard to make it in this fucked up world and for it all to be took away from us not because of we threw it away no because of someone else's fuck up so now we just out here what type of shit is that put y'all feet in our shoes
Kyanna Bell
The explosion that happened in Garden valley apartments
Kyanna Bell is still here not home no where and still want fucking answer I want to know what causes my family life to be torn apart who the fuck is the blame y'all left us out here like it was our fault no you dumb ass muther fuckers we did nothing wrong my family was in there home doing family things playing games in our home then everything goes up in flames not because of something we was doing but someone else fuck ups now my kids are without they dad I'm without the only man that ever loved me for me we are alone trying to make it another day every day is a struggle every noise my kids here every emergency sirens my kids running out the door or they just running to see what's going on cooking is hard for me got to cook outside everyday just imagine grown and groaning ground beef on the grill just to make my kids some tacos smoke alarms my kids is terrified of the noise it's f***** up my my daughter don't even like to take showers to the f****** water like what the f*** I don't know what I'm going through over here it's a struggle my kids don't sleep at night I don't sleep at night crying crying crying that's what we do wonder why we got to go through this b******* that's not our fault we was in our own home not cooking not smoking not nothing just playing games and f*** my family this place at 43 more families to go and people just left us out here like we just ain't s*** I ain't give a f*** about us we don't hear s*** else about Cordale Sheffield nothing else about the explosion that happened in rainbow Terrace June 23rd 2025 at about 3:00 4:00 in the f****** afternoon and you're just sit up in your office big and bad and them chairs and don't give a f*** about nobody but what y'all do give a f*** about is yourself your family and what the f*** y'all got going on f*** us we ain't s*** we project m************ right I wish this b******* on nobody not even my worst f****** enemy day by day minute by minute second my second that's how the f*** we live our life now and everybody don't nobody gives the f*** everybody just keep living their life and we struggling with this world out here mentally struggling financially struggling struggling just to live our day yo call Cordale Sheffield a hero he been our hero he was our hero before the s*** happened he was our hero in our house he was the man of our house he was my best friend he was my soulmate he was my ride or die he was the man that I fall on when I can't stand up when I'm sick he's there now I got nobody I'm all alone my kids without their dad what the f*** but y'all live in your life got everything y'all need and everything you want you ain't got to worry about jumping up when you hear loud noises you ain't got to worry about your kids running through the house when they hear or smell something funny you ain't worried about that y'all sleep real good we don't we looking over our shoulders our backs and turning her ass every chance we get every minute of the day every second of the f****** hour but I'm sitting here just talking cuz don't nobody give a f*** about us we ain't the president we ain't white we black don't nobody give a f*** about us we ain't got no money we can't afford a lawyer we can't afford all this b******* y'all got going on in your world we just got to accept this s*** cuz we we ain't s*** leave it up to y'all f*** this public comment s*** this s*** don't work all y'all give a f*** about is yourselves and the paycheck but God don't like ugly and how the f*** do y'all sleep at night knowing that charges left us 44 families out here just f***** up with no no explanation why we lose everything we work hard for hell I'm old now what the f*** I can't do the same s*** I used to do to get what the f*** I had and half of the s*** I had I can't replace cuz it's unreplaceable God bless y'all I wish the best for everybody
Kyanna Bell
CMHA AND IT'S LACK OF TRANSPARENCY , BURNING AND GIVING FIRE DEPT. TO WRITE CITATIONS AND GIVE INFO. NOISE ORDANICE , CARMERA IN ALLEY,
MY NAME IS CARMEN M. SANDERS, ALL I WANT IS PEACE. I HAVE KNOWING WITTNESS AND A VICTIM OF THE SYSTEM AND THE PEOPLE. THE BURNING IN THE NEIGBORHOODS, FIREMAN HAVING TO GO ON CALLS THAT ARE MINOR WITH A WHOLE LARGE TRUCK TO WASTE TIME GAS AND STRAINS BUDGET AND PRODUCTIVITY. IN ADDITION, I THINK ITS TIME TO PREPARE FOR THE NEXT CANADA SMOKE BY ISSUEING AND SUGGESST AIR PURIFIERS AND AIR CONDITIONER. NOISE ORDANICE FOR PEOPLE WHO WORK FROM HOME. WE LOOSE MONEY EVERY CALL THAT DROPS FROM BACKGROUND NOISE. PREPARING FOR A FLOOD OF MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES. WE NEED TO BE AWARE IF THE GOOD AND BAD INSTITUTIONAL PROGRAMS. I MAKE MYSELF AN EXAMPLE PROUDLY JUST TO SEE WHAT BUSINESSES UNDER ESTIMATED WHO I AM. AN HAVING MY CIVIL SERVENTS ON DECK. LIKE A ANGIE'S LIST. ANY AND EVERY UNIFORM OF SERVICE. THE MESSAGE NEEDS TO BE CLEAR. DON'T DO WHAT YOU KNOW IS WRONG. IN ALL THESE TOPICS I SEE EVERYTHING TO MAKE BETTER. I DO NOT LIKE THE FACT SENIORS ARE NOT LIVING AS WELL AS THE YOUNG GIRL IN A TOP CHEF COMPLEX WHILE OUR SENIORS THAT BEEN HERE AND ON THE LIST CAN'T EVEN GET A ROOM IN ALL THE 3 BDRMS THEIR GIVEN TO YOUNG ENTITLED 3 INDEPENDANT SENIORS SHOULD HAVE THAT OPTIONS OR WE NEED TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE. THEIR SHOULD NEVER BE WHERE FAMILY OR FRIENDS WILL NEVER TRUMP. DOING WHAT IS RIGHT AND JUST.
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
CARMEN M. SANDERS
Little Italy Special Improvement District
We are opposed to the Little Italy Special Improvement District (SID) tax as currently proposed because it includes assessments on owner occupied dwellings.
According to the Cuyahoga County Community Resource guide, an SID is a defined geographic area the purpose of which is to support the growth and development of a business district through services that enhance the area’s vibrancy, improve its safety and cleanliness, and attract investment. Ohio law allows for the creation of Special Improvement Districts” for business district improvements, special energy improvement projects, or shoreline improvement projects”.
The guidebook gives examples of the assessments levied for several SIDs in Cleveland Heights, notably Cedar-Fairmount, Cedar-Lee and Coventry which are comparable to Little Italy in size and number of businesses. Their annual budgets range from $66,000 to $165,300. The Gordon Square budget in Cle. is $133,663, each of these much lower than that of the proposed SID. Only the Cedar-Lee and Coventry examples show the documents that describe the properties that are levied assessments and it appears that the parcels on which levies are imposed are the businesses within the area, not owner occupied homes. For example, 75 parcels are taxed within the Cedar-Lee district and 18 parcels in Coventry.
In fact, the recently formed UCI SID explicitly excludes residences from the
tax, as do the SIDs in Cleveland Hts., both of which border Little Italy. Thus the sur-tax
on the SID will discourage and disadvantage owner occupied home ownership in Little Italy and encourage home ownership in other Cleveland neighborhoods that do not have this tax. Many longtime senior owners have been especially hit by the higher taxes due to development. Owner occupied housing is known to be crucial to communities for stability, maintenance, civic engagement, social capital, and economic benefit and has been a goal of the City Council and Mayor’s offices.
The predominance of businesses in Little Italy in the form of numerous restaurants, rental housing, airbnbs, parking lots, valet services, retail shops is more than adequate to fund an SID which by definition and Ohio law is meant for business development. Zillow alone lists 970 rental properties available in Little Italy and is a corporate manager of many of them. Case Western Reserve University has recently added over 800 residents to Little Italy for which it receives hefty room and board fees and, as a nonprofit, pays no taxes. Case also manages multiple fraternity houses on Murray Hill, other rental units, as well as parking lots. The majority of rental housing in Little Italy is occupied also by Case students such that the university should have an institutional investment in maintaining and supporting Little Italy.
As well said by resident Arthur Hargate, "Commercial enterprises, private equity investor property owners from afar, well-funded non-profit institutions and absentee landlords that extract economic value and substantial profits from Little Italy’s location, history, heritage and culture should be directly targeted to pay an amount that recognizes the massive economic benefit they enjoy from exploiting their presence in Little Italy. Commercial concerns, absentee landlords and nonprofits extract economic value from the neighborhood every day and therefore preferentially benefit from the services the SID Tax will fund."
For these reasons we are adamantly opposed to the establishment of this SID that will assess taxes on owner occupied dwellings in Little Italy, as such a levy would be unfair, taxing residents rather than businesses that would derive the most benefit, would discourage and be a detriment to owner occupied home ownership essential to a thriving community.
We request City Council to restrict the SID to businesses and institutions as intended by Ohio Law and to reduce the budget to the private police services cost of $170,000
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Lynn and Mark Singer
2079 Random Rd. 205
Cleveland, OH 44106
According to the Cuyahoga County Community Resource guide, an SID is a defined geographic area the purpose of which is to support the growth and development of a business district through services that enhance the area’s vibrancy, improve its safety and cleanliness, and attract investment. Ohio law allows for the creation of Special Improvement Districts” for business district improvements, special energy improvement projects, or shoreline improvement projects”.
The guidebook gives examples of the assessments levied for several SIDs in Cleveland Heights, notably Cedar-Fairmount, Cedar-Lee and Coventry which are comparable to Little Italy in size and number of businesses. Their annual budgets range from $66,000 to $165,300. The Gordon Square budget in Cle. is $133,663, each of these much lower than that of the proposed SID. Only the Cedar-Lee and Coventry examples show the documents that describe the properties that are levied assessments and it appears that the parcels on which levies are imposed are the businesses within the area, not owner occupied homes. For example, 75 parcels are taxed within the Cedar-Lee district and 18 parcels in Coventry.
In fact, the recently formed UCI SID explicitly excludes residences from the
tax, as do the SIDs in Cleveland Hts., both of which border Little Italy. Thus the sur-tax
on the SID will discourage and disadvantage owner occupied home ownership in Little Italy and encourage home ownership in other Cleveland neighborhoods that do not have this tax. Many longtime senior owners have been especially hit by the higher taxes due to development. Owner occupied housing is known to be crucial to communities for stability, maintenance, civic engagement, social capital, and economic benefit and has been a goal of the City Council and Mayor’s offices.
The predominance of businesses in Little Italy in the form of numerous restaurants, rental housing, airbnbs, parking lots, valet services, retail shops is more than adequate to fund an SID which by definition and Ohio law is meant for business development. Zillow alone lists 970 rental properties available in Little Italy and is a corporate manager of many of them. Case Western Reserve University has recently added over 800 residents to Little Italy for which it receives hefty room and board fees and, as a nonprofit, pays no taxes. Case also manages multiple fraternity houses on Murray Hill, other rental units, as well as parking lots. The majority of rental housing in Little Italy is occupied also by Case students such that the university should have an institutional investment in maintaining and supporting Little Italy.
As well said by resident Arthur Hargate, "Commercial enterprises, private equity investor property owners from afar, well-funded non-profit institutions and absentee landlords that extract economic value and substantial profits from Little Italy’s location, history, heritage and culture should be directly targeted to pay an amount that recognizes the massive economic benefit they enjoy from exploiting their presence in Little Italy. Commercial concerns, absentee landlords and nonprofits extract economic value from the neighborhood every day and therefore preferentially benefit from the services the SID Tax will fund."
For these reasons we are adamantly opposed to the establishment of this SID that will assess taxes on owner occupied dwellings in Little Italy, as such a levy would be unfair, taxing residents rather than businesses that would derive the most benefit, would discourage and be a detriment to owner occupied home ownership essential to a thriving community.
We request City Council to restrict the SID to businesses and institutions as intended by Ohio Law and to reduce the budget to the private police services cost of $170,000
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Lynn and Mark Singer
2079 Random Rd. 205
Cleveland, OH 44106
Lynn Singer
The explosion that happened in Garden valley apartments
Yep it Kyanna Bell again still fucked up behind this explosion still can't put my life back together still taking my kids back and forth to the hospital still having surgery but still no answer on what the fuck displaced us 44 families So who the fuck is the blame my man Cordale SHEFFIELD lost his life my kids lost their skin they lost they since of safety stuff they was never scared of they are now kids should not have to live in fear but y'all don't give a fuck about us 44 families because we do belong to y'all meaning us as the 44 families does not have the same DNA as any of y'all that are in them seats that can put a end to this fucked up shit but no y'all don't care right Cordale SHEFFIELD was not none of y'all son brother cousin friend nephew or nothing to mo of y'all and neither is my kids or the 43 families fuck us that's how y'all really feel
Kyanna Bell
Demolition of historic homes on East 115th Street
Re: E. 115th between Mayfield and Cornell:
How is in that a “nonprofit” institution like University Hospitals is able to acquire the historic dwellings on an entire neighborhood street, intentionally allow them to deteriorate and then demolish them with NO PUBLIC INPUT, using our tax money. Shameful.
How is in that a “nonprofit” institution like University Hospitals is able to acquire the historic dwellings on an entire neighborhood street, intentionally allow them to deteriorate and then demolish them with NO PUBLIC INPUT, using our tax money. Shameful.
Arthur Hargate
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