It is ironic, what is being addressed is and area, that areas is 44108.  It is a park community.  That based not on my subjective opinion, but rather on the fact that is has a very percentage of land currently designated as park. 

We can look at it from the perspective of it being a watershed because it has a natural watershed in part.  It also has a very elaborate underground system that is both culvert natural and wastewater. 

The way that it was naturally is in fact lost forever; it is not possible to recreate the natural environment.  The natural watershed interrupted, diverted for the most part in the complex combined system of drains.   What flows into storm drains and waste drains combines; they impound that and direct all of that to treatment facilities.  However, as we know when it rains it cannot handle the volume and discharges.     The discharge enters the natural environment. 

If we simple say it needs to be natural or just ay it needs to stop, then we paint ourselves into corner.  Just saying it needs to be something completely other than what it currently is just finger pointing.  

Impoundments hold water, it is already obvious that the natural shed is gone; the meadows and meandering streams that lead to creeks and then to rivers, they no longer exist.  If we ignore that we are not naturalists, we are not looking at the picture holistically.  We have to accept that natural in its pristine form is gone forever.

If we look at each piece we reside on then we look at the surface area that we posses that are no longer absorbing, our roofs, driveways and garages.  The areas been converted from absorbers to diverters.   The area had previously absorbed and diverted, now it only diverts.  We have exponentially increased the flow of what once was.   Catching water in rain barrels and storing it helps, but it is marginal. 

Currently the diverted water enters a combined piping system that holds both raw sewage and industrial waste.   That combined water sent collectively to a treatment facility for processing. However, during rains falls the volume is to high and pressure releases it into creeks, rivers and the lake. 

The volume is too large, so they consider creating impoundment, and that is the approach they use. The vaults that hold the volume of water and then process it later time.   Considering the size of the urban area and the amount of diverted water it is easy to see how ridiculously expensive it would be, and the size of these storage vaults referred to as interceptors is enormous.   

What hits the roof of my home and runs down my gutters is not contaminated. What flows into the storm drains on the street is in part with litter and residual oils from leaking cars and trucks.  Far from pristine but not highly hazardous either.   

Storm water be separated from the sanitary, I do not see evidence that is even being considered.  All relative to capacity and volume, the approach is interceptors and impoundment.  I believe that if addressed in a single area with consideration to the existing natural watershed it is possible to impound just the rainwater and then divert it to natural watershed.     

The area of 44108 has some of the city’s most interesting architecture. However, it has a very high rate of loss.   Each year it has lost housing many streets have vacant lots.  As much as 25% of the original homes built have been lost.   Very few of these homes maintained, they are neglected and deteriorated.  

We are the generation of advancing technology; it is entirely possible to address this very glorious area of our city with greater intelligence.

The area stretches from the lake to University Circle in the south, it is continuous with three adjacent areas 44103 and 44106, parks, lake front marinas all have amenities.  

It would be very complex from an engineering stand point, that being to impound storm water in man made lagoons and connect them with flows to natural bodies of water.  However, 44108 has a creek that runs through its center.  

If the areas are approached separately, with respect to all aspects then unique approaches to unique environ would develop.  The area of 44108 could develop into a large Park District.

If utilities in an area where underground and out of site then it is possible to move homes, the obstacle to moving homes is to a great extent getting the utility lines out of the way.  These open space that the city is so anxious to infill with lesser quality homes are actually blessing in disguise.  Moving homes to infill and restoring them considering the open space and creating lagoons as water features in park community.  Creating water features that control the watershed and direst it back to natural system.    As much as 25% of the actual space is open, it is that, it is not continuous open space. 

I biggest concern I have with historical properties are there scatter locations, a historic Victorian sitting in isolation from like structures has functional obsolesces, compared to those that are surround with other homes of like quality.  To assume that our well-ingrained sense of esthetically pleasing is or needs to be reconsidered is naive if not foolish.  

Creating a utopian like park community economically represent a large cash cow.  To call to attract people back from the suburban area is begging Peter to pay Paul.   Such an area would become a home for new wealth the only real measure of success, to attract those from outside of the greater region.  That requires new economic models, expansion and growth.   If  NEOCM was relocated to the city then that is 1,700 new employees and they will be looking for 1,700 new household.   That area of 44108 could be the location of many of those households. Transit feeders connecting those household to the campus, the water frontline in the north and the silver line in the south. 

Transplanting and empowering, not only historic homes, but industry and commerce, resulting in high concentrations of residential areas and also commercial areas, and industrial areas.  

Separating into like sections with much in common is highly successful, missing it all together is nothing more than creating conflict, demanding assimilation into a conflicting model is foolish and with out any regard to the economics.  It defies and ignores what it is that people really want consistency.  An area that is plagued with architectural inconsistency is not ideal it embraces low standards.  Good enough, it cannot be perfect, even worse perfection is subjective.  

The highest and best use of the land, with the highest regard to the actual land, long term and sustainable.  That mean once it is done it is done; it does not need constant revising. 

The concept of regionalism based on nodes, parcels that collect into districts and then sub regions and all connected as a whole. 

A utility provider would look at each node, it would provide for its requirements, a trunk to feed it and grid to disperse it, it could regulate its consumption with advanced technology, balancing loads and augmenting sources.  Intelligent systems of the future run on real-time data feeds.  

It is entirely possible to have historic communities, which are totally high tech and super energy efficient. 

The uses of software and technology, grown locally, advanced medial and educational facilities grown locally, it is not complex.  Clusters of manufacturing and commerce, monitored for health and vitality.  Teams responsible for manufacturing parks and commercial districts, transplant teams responsible to get them into clustered zones. 

What I know for certain is that people have huge societal misconceptions, some people are very content with sweeping the floors, it is service and should be respected.  However, the misconception all exists in generalization.  Do not assume that a persons value is defined my anything other than their ability to adapt.   Do not assume that the person needs your help, it s insulting they need opportunity and those are easy to see in a consistent environ.  Simple and easy beats a complex socially engineered model, those that have less adaptability require clear and easy alternatives, those need to be sustainable.   No mater if I get a raise or if I get married the system does not treat me differently.   The largest fault in society is to penalize progression, if I move up then befits are the same until I get so high up it is obvious I do not need them.   We have transition points that penalize people, over this point you get nothing under and you get everything.   It all has to be prorated, consistent and interrelated. 

Everything s income based, society needs to be certain that it is fair and empowers eventual self-sufficiency.  The parcel, predefined, can address this, you cannot live wherever you want, you can only live where you can afford.

What is missing is the break even, in the simplest economic model and everything does rise from that point the simplest model must be adhered to.  You cannot detail on a model that stems from an ignoring of the basic.   The breakeven is the intersection of the supply and the demand.  With housing, it is defined by your income, but better yet by the average income and the average cost.

We actually have created a huge mess, disposable income is the goal of everyone, we have and continue to price our markets in oblivion.  It will attempt to adjust and we look at how to defy it.  The suburbanites will get trapped in the market, they can and will not leave their homes and take a loss, some can but many cannot.  To call people to the urban areas now is ridiculous; the abatement is the only incentive.

Cleveland need to attract people from other regions, regions that have higher values these will come with capital and relish in a lower cost market.   The last thing we need is raising our value to their levels.  If we attracted 2000 IT jobs from Silicon Valley those people would come with capital.  A 250k-350k renovated home in Park Community would seem very in expensive to them.  

I am looking for a mechanism to address the need for low cost housing, I believe that a model based on manufactured homes is best, a factory that builds its first community to house its own workers.  In processes we have what is referred as vertical integration, a chain of activity all connected. The same people that define the location also define the homes and the building of the homes and include all the manufacturing of the components.    Vertical integration is highly efficient, the workers take pride in the homes they are constructing them for them selves. 

This in alignment with clustering, open space becomes a large quality of affordable homes.  It gets empowered with locally made manufacturing of the homes and its components.  It is further empowered with commercial areas within it.  The pricing all based on income and unrestricted.  All based within an affordable pricing model do to efficient and low cost labor.   

The laborer would be apprentices,  the price of their homes based on labor rates set at or before cut offs for federal and state entitlements.   I ingle person paid 15K a year and then gets the new home at  $350 a month, entitled to HEAP and Medicaid.  If this person get married then the spouse’s income should not affect the price of the housing it should remain constant.   Permanent and sustainable low income households.   This could be done for janitors in office buildings, landscapers etc.   

The more efficient the system the less the loss per unit and with a price ceiling at actual cost it is all a break-even or loss model, subsidized with taxes. It derives taxes from the Park Community, industrial parks and commercial districts. 

The Park Community would have a population of around 20-25K, some could be locally derived but most would need to be transplants of other regions.   It could be a huge tool utilized in order to attract corporations.  Empower a corporation that is attracting talent from other areas.  

It can be seen in Rockefeller Park and section of East Blvd, the potential.  The incredible charm and exemplary esthetics, then traveling away from those areas it begins to break down,  Ansel and Wheelock roads are severely blighted and most of the northern sections close to the lake are far from appealing. 

The whole area looked at lot by lot block by block, it could be phenomenal, and it could incorporate water features.   That looks much like the lagoons on the park, but are integrated water reservoirs.