A map based on inflation-adjusted, assessed property tax values for 226 communities in seven Northeast Ohio counties shows gains and losses channeled by highway-induced suburban development between 1960 and 2018. County auditor information was gleaned by Cleveland State University researchers through the Ohio Department of Taxation.Northern Ohio Data & Information Service, Cleveland State University
MAPLE HEIGHTS, Ohio — Annette Blackwell, the mayor of this small, struggling, majority Black suburb southeast of Cleveland, might seem an unlikely person to rewrite the rules on how new interchanges can be added to interstate highways in Northeast Ohio.
Then again, she says, her life experience and her current office have shown her exactly how the highway system has helped to divide the region into winners and losers by siphoning people, jobs and investment away from communities like hers.
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