Cleveland’s top airport official says the proposed Browns stadium development in Brook Park would “permanently and negatively impact” the airspace at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, interfering with operations, safety and more.
That’s what Bryant Francis, the city’s director of port control, wrote in a letter to the Ohio Department of Transportation’s aviation office in March. Francis doubled down on his stance in late June, according to public records released Monday.
That correspondence is what prompted ODOT aviation officials to deny a permit this month for the new Browns stadium – even though the proposal, on a 176-acre former automotive-plant site just east of Hopkins, won approval from the Federal Aviation Administration in May.
ODOT rejects new Browns stadium as too tall. Browns push back, citing FAA’s OK.
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