Do you think Cleveland would consider regionalism? (Westlake, East Cleveland: school districts, taxes)

[Mr216]

Let's face it Cleveland can't continue to run the same way any longer because obviously it's not working. With the population continuing to drop not only in Cleveland but in surrounding communities I think the best way to stabilize and grow is to combine. The suburbs can keep there school districts independent but would share their tax base, population, and public services which would become a more cost efficient operation. The different communities need to stop poaching off of each other as far as businesses go, because even though it may benefit your individual community it isn't really improving the region and in some cases hurting it. The different communities need to work together to bring other businesses here because without that the cities will continue to slowly die. Just my opinion though.....what do you all think?

[Clevelander17]

Piece-meal regionalism may work, but large-scale regionalism will never have widespread support.

[Mr216]

Originally Posted by Clevelander17

Piece-meal regionalism may work, but large-scale regionalism will never have widespread support.

What do you mean by peace meal regionalism and why don't you think large scale will work?

[Clevelander17]

Originally Posted by Mr216

What do you mean by peace meal regionalism and why don't you think large scale will work?

There's too much provincialism for large scale regionalism to work. For example, if you live in Orange Village do you really want your police services combined into a single, large county-wide force that includes places like East Cleveland?

However, an example of piece-meal regionalism might be the police forces of Orange Village, Pepper Pike, and Moreland Hills all consolidating into one. Or maybe those three cities all combine.

School districts could/should be combined. Cuyahoga County has something like 33 schools districts; I think we could easily get by with half or a third as many.

[no1brownsfan]

If Cleveland and Cuyahoga County was smart they would. The status quo is not working, and hasn't been for quite some time.

[Peregrine]

It will happen but it's going to take a long time....
Good topic today would be snow removal. Nothing annoys me mroe then driving down Center Ridge and right at the Westlake border the road suddenly gets real bad.

[YaFace]

They have been talking about regionalism since the '50s, it will never happen. The poor people have to live somewhere, and it is more than likely going to be the city. You think all these decent hard working suburbs are going to be like: "sure let me continue to pay high suburb taxes so the poor, lazy stiffs who live in the city can mooch off of my awesome school district, and decent public services." Hells to the naw! Until you eliminate that roving band of poor, it will never happen.

BTW, if you can figure out a way to do that, let every city in America know, because they have been trying to figure that out since the beginning of time.

[blowingdown]

^An uneducated population is a suffering population.

[PhillytoCincy]

Cleveland needs to try something different than what it is doing now, because obviously it isn't working. Cleveland can't afford (at this point) to sit around and wonder "what if" we did this. You need to implement new plans, and do it now...

[The Cactus Leaguer]

Annexation is not a growth strategy. At one level it is simply shuffling deck chairs.