SCFBC Service Area Block Clubs, Community Associations and Community Gardens

What does community engagement look like?  Here it is mapped out for the Stockyard, Clark Fulton & Brooklyn Centre Community Development Office's service area:

For more information about SCFBC see here. And, click on the map below for the interactive Google Map version.

Block Clubs, Community Associations

Please call the SCFBC for information on any group you are interested in attending or learning more about.  [See full report for more detailed information and meeting schedules]

1. Brooklyn Centre Community Association
2. Bush Ave Block Watch
3. Fenwick Neighbors Block Club
4. Fulton West Block Club
5. International Village
6. Jones Home Historic District Community Association (formerly Daisy Area)
7. Library, and Poe Ave. Meeting location: Jones Home Building Basement, Applewood Center Mapledale Ave Residents
8. Stockyard Connection
9. Village People
10. Unity Block Club
11. W. 33rd Street Block Club
12. W. 33rd and Bradwell Ave Residents
13. W. 73rd & Neighborhood Coalition

Community Interest Groups

1. Brooklyn Centre Naturalists
2. Cleveland TimeBank
3. Community Forum
4. Community Gardens
5. Community Leaders Committee
6. Economic Development Committee
7. Greenspace & Land Reutilization Committee
8. Housing Committee
9. Mix & Mingles Open House
10. Near West Community Council
11. NeighborCircles
12. Safety Committee
13. Stockyard Steppers

Gardens and Green Space

1. Frontier Garden
2. New Hope Garden
3. Fenwick Garden
4. Brooklyn Centre Community Orchard
5. Daisy Ave Green Garden
6. W. 58th St Garden
7. W. 58th St Orchard
8. International Village NatureHood Native Plant Garden
9. International Village Garden 4
10. International Village Garden 1
11. International Village Garden 2
12. International village Garden 5
13. International Village Orchard
14. La Placita
15. Placemark 16
16. Arkansas Arbor
17. Stockyard Community Schools
18. Clark Elementary
19. Boys and Girls Club
20. Taking Root
21. 2902 Archwood Ave
22. New Hope Community Garden
23. W. 73rd and Community Coalition Pocket Park
24. PoPce Pocket Park
25. W. 44th and Storer Cottage
26. BCN Urban Dye Garden
27. Bigelow Victory Garden
28. El Sol
29. East of Eden
30. Lincoln West Garden
31. NxGen Perserve 63
32. BCN Polar Plot
33. BCN Garden
34. Maggies Farm
35. Jardin de Milegros

For information on any of the above community groups or programs, please contact the SCFBC office at (216) 961-9073, 3167 Fulton Road, #302, Cleveland, Ohio 44109

Cleveland City Council to approve new redistricting plan by April 1, 2013

Redistricting information and maps for Ward 14 and the City of Cleveland

Cleveland City Council is likely to begin hearings, and possibly seek approval by vote, by Monday, March 18th for the required redistricting that will occur this year. The Council will be reduced in size from the current 19 to 17 wards.  New wards, by law have to be approved by April 1st, due to the passage of the re-districting legislation in 2008 and the results of the 2010 census.

Cleveland's 2010 population as reported by the census was 396,830.

For a perspective on the change in Northeast Ohio and Cleveland's population, here is an excellent article by Robert Smith.

• Despite Cleveland's population plunge, civic leaders see encouraging signs
  By Robert L. Smith, The Plain Dealer, 3.10.2011

Council leadership is responsible for drafting the new redistricting plan. Throughout the past year Council members have provided input to the plan but no citywide plan has been shared with all council members of the public to-date.

Below is a mashup of the PD map showing population loss and our current 19 Wards. Current Ward maps can be found here.

2008 Charter approved redistricting table:

City of Cleveland re-districting formula approved November 2008 requires the number of wards to be determined by estimated population with a ratio of one ward for every 25,000 people.  "The wards so formed shall be as nearly equal in population as may fair and equitable, composed of contiguous and compact territory, and bounded by natural boundaries or street lines.  The 2010 US Census  estimated Cleveland's population at 396,815.

Potential changes for Ward 14

Through recent consultations with Council leadership, Ward 14 district boundaries are expected to retain the current central portions of the ward with the potential of losing areas to the immediate northeast and gaining population to the west.