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Cleveland Holds Final Public Hearing on Burke Lakefront Airport's Future
Cleveland City Council's Transportation and Mobility Committee convened the last in a series of public hearings on the future of Burke Lakefront Airport on April 15, closing the formal deliberation period over whether the lakefront airfield should be redeveloped, converted to parkland, or preserved for aviation. The outcome could reshape miles of Cleveland's lakefront for decades.
Cleveland City Council's Transportation and Mobility Committee held what officials billed as the final public hearing in its series examining the future of Burke Lakefront Airport on Wednesday, April 15.
The meeting, scheduled at 10 a.m. in Room 217 of Cleveland City Hall, was live-broadcast on YouTube and Cleveland TV Channel 20.
Burke Lakefront Airport sits on roughly 450 acres of prime real estate on Lake Erie's southern shore, just east of downtown Cleveland. The airport has been at the center of a years-long debate over whether its lakefront land could serve the city better as a redevelopment site — for housing, parks, or mixed-use development — or whether its aviation function should be retained.
The Transportation and Mobility Committee did not take a binding vote at this hearing. The committee's findings and the public record gathered across all hearings are expected to inform a broader City Council deliberation on the airport's future.
No timeline for a final vote has been publicly announced.