The City of South Euclid is working to make some development changes. City officials are working to limit the amount of fast-food drive-thrus and what the city calls “small box discount retail stores” like Dollar General and Dollar Tree.
The Planning and Development Director for the City of South Euclid, Michael Love, wants to see South Euclid grow to its full potential. Love said the city is finally rebounding from the 2008 housing crisis. More want to make South Euclid home again.
“We went from being a very cold housing market to a very hot housing market,” Love said. “Nothing sits, everything sells very quickly.”
With more families moving in, Love wants to see stores and shopping areas reflect those changes.
“We have always prided ourselves on being a very walkable community pretty much 99 of the streets in South Euclid have public sidewalks,” said Love. “So, we want people to be able to walk we want people to be able to bike.”
To help achieve this, two pieces of legislation were introduced to the city council that are now under review by the planning commission. The first piece of legislation would ban restaurant drive-thrus within the city’s Mayfield-Green and Cedar Center North Districts. Other businesses with drive-thrus like banks and pharmacies, would be excluded from the ban. However, current food-focused drive-thrus would be grandfathered in. For example, drive-thrus- like McDonald’s, Mr. Chicken, and Starbucks in the Mayfield-Green District would stay open.