Gates Mills Investment Co. v. Parks

I

The Proposed Subdivision

Duncan, J.

Gates Mills Boulevard is a divided highway running through the village of Pepper Pike. An un-dedicated median strip of land 100 feet wide divides the two dedicated 60-foot-wide roadways of the boulevard. A portion of the median strip between Brainard Circle and Lander Circle, approximately one mile long, is the land appellant proposes to subdivide.

The Van Sweringen Company, the original developers of the general area in the 1920’s, intended that the median strip of Gates Mills Boulevard be used for a railway to provide transportation for residents of the…