Project Details
Our Partners
In recent years, the project partners have developed their own strategies and priorities for vacant land in their service area or area of expertise, and have completed robust plans that involved extensive community engagement. View a collection of previous plans that we've compiled here. CLEVLOT will coalesce these recent efforts into a unified vacant land reuse strategy. Together, we will work towards the fulfillment of our project objectives, shown below.
Project Timeline
The grant timeline lasted from February 2022 to February 2024. The first year, 2022, consisted of convening stakeholders and forming working groups to define the current issues with vacant land reuse. 2023 saw the development of pilot projects and developing a planning tool for more accessible and transparent vacant land reuse.
Toolkit Development Process
1
CREATE SPACE
Invite partners to join in the creative process and communicate the basic goals of CLEVLOT. Outline a collaborative work plan.
2
DEFINE PROBLEM
Define parts of the problem more clearly. Understand different points of view on the problem by building empathy across different community members.
3
ORGANIZE IDEAS
Identify common parts of the problem. Brainstorm range of ideas to address the problems. Organize ideas into Working Groups.
4
PROTOTYPING
Each Working Group creates a prototype to better understand their problems, user test solutions, and reveal new insights.
5
CONNECT
Build on the insights from the Working Groups to connect complementary solutions. Coordinate with partners to add more parts of the toolkit.
6
SHARE & MONITOR
Share toolkit components and obtain feedback from the CLEVLOT process. Continue to monitor as partner organizations advance work.
Focus area
This pilot initiative targets a 12-square mile footprint with a population of 66,000 people, serviced by our Project Partners Burten, Bell, Carr, Development, Inc. and Union-Miles Development: Central, Kinsman, Buckey-Woodhill, Buckeye-Shaker, Mount Pleasant, and Union Miles.
Contact us.
Western Reserve Land Conservancy
812 Huron Road E. Suite 840,
Cleveland, OH 44115
(216) 515-8300