Planning area south of Downtown and Lake Erie, with Canal Basin Park, the Greater Cleveland Aquarium and two Tri-C Campus District rail stations.
Search this neighborhoodThe Flats (Cuyahoga Valley) is a Cleveland planning area with about 1,000 residents. It is a long valley along the Cuyahoga River, running from Lake Erie and Downtown in the north to Brooklyn Centre and Broadway-Slavic Village in the south, with Tremont, Ohio City and Detroit Shoreway on its west side and Broadway-Slavic Village and Central to the east. Parks inside it include Canal Basin Park, Heritage Park and Crooked River Skate Park, and the Cleveland Metroparks Lakefront Reservation reaches into the area. Other places within its bounds include the Greater Cleveland Aquarium, Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica and the Western Reserve Fire Museum. Two rail stations, both named Tri-C Campus District Station, serve the Blue Line, Green Line and Red Line.
Zoning in The Flats (Cuyahoga Valley) is mostly industrial. By area, the largest districts are Unrestricted Industry, General Industry and Semi-Industry, followed by Open Space Recreation. Rail service includes the RTA Red Line, RTA Waterfront Line, RTA Blue Line and RTA Green Line, and bus routes include RTA Route 19-19A-19B Broadway and RTA Route 15 Union–Harvard. Permits here are dominated by Commercial Building, Commercial Electrical and Commercial HVAC work. To look at a specific property, search an address on CivicScout.
CivicScout counts Cleveland Division of Police reported offenses that carry a location across the whole Cuyahoga Valley planning area (The Flats), and open building-violation notices within a half mile of its center. About one in five recent police reports carries no offense category, so the counts understate violent crime and cannot show that an area has little of it. Reports handled by transit, campus and suburban police may not appear. CivicScout does not have current traffic crash data for Cleveland.
View safety data →Permits issued in The Flats (Cuyahoga Valley) over the past year are mostly in the categories Commercial Building, Commercial Electrical and Commercial HVAC.
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View new construction →Zoning in The Flats (Cuyahoga Valley) is mostly Unrestricted Industry and General Industry, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
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