{"id":724388,"date":"2026-02-02T19:17:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/724388\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T19:17:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:17:26","slug":"committee-signs-off-on-road-improvements-near-cleveland-browns-new-stadium-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/724388\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee signs off on road improvements near Cleveland Browns&#8217; new stadium site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">A package of road improvements proposed by Brook Park near the site of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/13\/cleveland-browns-reach-deal-clearing-way-for-brook-park-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/10\/13\/cleveland-browns-reach-deal-clearing-way-for-brook-park-stadium\/\">Browns\u2019 new stadium<\/a> \u201creceived the signoff Friday from a regional planning committee that previously put things on hold for more study,\u201d according to Rich Exner of the Cleveland PLAIN DEALER. The Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency planning committee heard results of updated traffic studies from its staff that \u201cpredict little impact on airport traffic and what are deemed acceptable delays to get in and out of the stadium site.\u201d Final approval \u201ccould come from the full board of the five-county agency as soon as March 13.\u201d NOACA \u201cmust sign off on major road improvements in the region,\u201d but approval from the planning committee was \u201cdelayed in October, following a discussion calling into question whether enough study had been done.\u201d A pedestrian bridge is \u201ctentatively planned over Engle Road to accommodate off-site parking in commercial areas northeast of the stadium site.\u201d More than 5,000 vehicles are \u201cexpected to park off-site for big events, in addition to 12,000 on the property being developed by HSG.\u201d Brook Park is seeking $70M \u201cfor the work from the Ohio Department of Transportation.\u201d Another $12M is being \u201ccovered by the Browns-affiliated Haslam Sports Group.\u201d Groundbreaking for the stadium is \u201cexpected this spring\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2026\/01\/noaca-committee-that-once-held-up-browns-brook-park-traffic-plan-gives-ok.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/2026\/01\/noaca-committee-that-once-held-up-browns-brook-park-traffic-plan-gives-ok.html\">Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 1\/30<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A package of road improvements proposed by Brook Park near the site of the Browns\u2019 new stadium \u201creceived&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2054],"tags":[86,85,54,2337,7,12202,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-724388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-browns","8":"tag-browns","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-browns","11":"tag-clevelandbrowns","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-legal","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116002649104137223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}