Cleveland Heights To Fix More Than 50 Streets

Public Works Director Alex Mannarino said more than 50 Cleveland Heights streets will be repaved or surface treated starting in April.

Below is the list of streets the city will fix in 2012. Check out our interactive map above and select "view larger map" to see the portion of roads the city will work on.

Repaved

• Arlington Road (North Park to Fairmount)
• Cleveland Heights Boulevard (Kirkwood to Glenwood)
• Fairfax Road (North Park to Fairmount)
• Forest Hills Boulevard (Hollister to City Line)
• Lee Road (Mayfield to Monticello)
• Maple Road (Severn to dead end)
• Mt. Vernon Boulevard (Monticello to Forest Hills)
• Revere Road (Blanche to Grosvenor)
• Stuart Road (Carver to Taylor)
• S. Taylor Road (E. Scarborough to Fairmount)
• The  from Euclid Heights Boulevard north to the City limit began March 12.

Surface treated

• Antisdale Road (Taylor to Staunton)
• Arlington Road (Monmouth to Fairmount)
• Bellfield Road (Cedar to North Park)
• Belmar Road (Mayfield to city line)
• Berkeley Road (Taylor to DeSota)
• Clarence Road (Noble to Randolph)
• Clarendon Road (Lee to Taylor)
• Compton Road (Euclid Heights to Berkeley)
• Cummings Road
• Delaware Drive (Cedar to North Park)
• Devonshire Road (Denton to Chestnut Hills)
• Edison Road (Taylor to Woodridge)
• E. Scarborough Road (Lee to Taylor)
• Glenwood Road (Yellowstone to Cleveland Heights)
• Hampstead Road (Superior to Cedar)
• Hillcrest Road (Mayfield to city line)
• Inglewood Drive (Oakridge to Mayfield)
• Ivydale Road (Euclid Heights to Mayfield)
• Kent (Berkshire to Derbyshire) water line fixed first, then surface treated
• Maplewood Road (Cedar to Kensington)
• Middleton Road (Mayfield to Wilmar Ct.)
• Minor Park Road (Hyde Park to Berkeley)
• Nobleshire (Noble to Randolph)
• Nordway Road (Silsby to city Line)
• Northampton Road (Quilliams to Cambridge)
• Princeton Road Redwood Road (Lee to Superior)
• Randolph Road (Quilliams to Woodview)
• Ridgefield
• Roanoke Road
• Rydalmount Road (Mayfield to Euclid Heights)
• Shannon Road (Taylor to Andrews)
• S. Noble Road (Mayfield to Wilmar Ct.)
• Sycamore Road (Ivydale to Lee)
• Whitethorn Road (Ivydale to Lee)
• Wilmar Court (Middleton to South Noble)
• Wilmar Road (Mayfield to Wilmar Ct.)
• Woodview (Noble to Randolph)

Bids went out recently, and Mannarino said the project will be confirmed March 31. The city's budget is usually $1.3 million to $1.4 million a year to take care of road repairs, Mannarino said. Money from the also helps the city take care of its streets. Some repairs are covered in-house, but .

Some of the residential streets will take about a day to repair, and others will take a few weeks. 

Surface treating a road is easier, Mannarino said, and those streets on the list will take about a day. Repaving a road, however, is more labor-intensive. Crews have to grind about 1.5 to 2.5 inches of street, dig out the weak areas, put in a base repair to help strengthen the foundation and then repave that. That takes about two weeks. The whole project will run from mid-April to the end of August.

Every two years, the city surveys all 264 residential streets in Cleveland Heights, Mannarino said. This list does not include main roads that the county and state handle, such as Monticello, Lee, South Taylor and Mayfield.

"They do evaluations and decide when repairs are done," Mannarino said. "We can only beg."

Last year, the city repaired more than 30 streets, and in the next six years, all Cleveland Heights residential streets will receive a face-lift.

When the city surveys streets, core samples of a few layers of the road are taken to decide if the foundation is in good shape. If the foundation crumbles, it’s a sign that the road needs to be treated first.   

When the city receives a complaint about potholes and other problems, they’ll also take a look at the road, and patch up holes and cracks until more can be done. 

Mannarino has a chart of the streets in Cleveland Heights with information like the year they were last repaired, the quality ranking of the road, traffic level and other information. There's also a map of where potholes are around the city. 

"The street department goes out and tries to accommodate the complaints," he said.