CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – In the saga that is the Cleveland Browns trying to build a new dome in Brook Park, the city of Cleveland did its part to get a permit denied based on the height of the dome and its proximity to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE).
In March, the Director of the city’s Department of Port Control (DPC) sent a letter to both the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) pointing out the proposed dome was 58 feet above what is acceptable within a three mile radius of CLE.
“The safe and effective management of the navigable airspace around CLE, including safeguarding CLE’s approach surfaces and navigable airspace, constitutes and obligation that DPC is committed to preserving,” DPC Director Bryant Francis wrote in the letters. “The proposed building development’s detrimental effects on CLE’s navigable airspace, and its effect on the approach surfaces go against the objectives of the City of Cleveland’s Department of Port Control.”
After the FAA would have seen this letter, it still worked with the Haslam Sports Group and it’s developers, studied the possible impacts, and eventually cleared the project as having no direct threat to the safe operation of CLE.
Bryant than sent a second letter on June 25, to ODOT stating the city’s and DPC position had not changed.
It was then August 1, that ODOT sent a letter to the Haslam Sports Group’s attorneys stating that without changes, ODOT would not allow a permit for the project.
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