Community speakers say court rejected rezoning for gas station at 10022 Madison Avenue

A public commenter told Cleveland City Council the coalition opposing a proposed gas station at 10022 Madison Avenue had prevailed through administrative and court processes and urged council not to reintroduce legislation that would change the site’s zoning.

Fauzi Badur (introduced as from Ward 11) said the developer lost at the board of zoning, planning commission and, most recently, in the court of Judge Kevin Kelly. Badur said the location is zoned with a pedestrian overlay for reasons related to neighborhood safety and the nearby park and said that returning the zoning question to the council would be ill advised.

"They lost us at the first. They lost at the board of zoning. They lost at the planning commission, and now they lost at the court," Badur said, urging council members to imagine how it would look to reintroduce the legislation. He emphasized that the roads around the site were not suitable for a gas station and that neighborhoods had voted against the proposal.

The transcript records Badur’s account of recent decisions and his appeal to council members’ judgment; it does not record a council response or a formal docket action at the meeting. Council will continue to process zoning and land‑use items through its committee and administrative review processes.