Neighbors on Cleveland’s West Side are fighting over the future of an old CVS in a zoning battle that could have implications for other properties across the city.
The owner of the vacant drugstore on Madison Avenue near West Boulevard wants to transform it into a gas station. Images presented at a public meeting show a Shell station with four pumps and, possibly, a fast-food pizza chain and a bank.
But the city’s regulations don’t allow a gas station there, on a street where planners changed the rules years ago to encourage more walking and cycling. And in May, the Board of Zoning Appeals rejected the property owner’s request to make an exception…