Rocky River City Council is set to vote Monday on a contract worth up to $10,945,027.58 that would replace aging water and sewer lines along western Lake Road, repave the corridor, and build a new off-road trail and parking lot near Bradstreet's Landing. The plan calls for narrowing Lake Road by about five feet to make room for a multi-use path stretching from the Bay Village border to Avalon Drive.
According to Cleveland.com, the proposed legislation, put forward by Mayor Pamela Bobst and the city's public safety-service director, sets the maximum contract amount for a project that bundles underground utility work with surface improvements. The report notes the city plans to contract with Fabrizi Trucking and Paving Company, which Rocky River council approved for a $6.67 million Beachcliff and Cornwall Sewer Improvement Project on July 27, 2026, according to a City of Rocky River ordinance.
Council will take up the measure Monday at 7 p.m. in council chambers at Rocky River City Hall, 21012 Hilliard Boulevard, per the same account. Existing sewers, water mains, and roadway in the project area are deteriorated, the outlet reports, and the city held a public meeting in May to present the planned changes and gather resident feedback.
What's Actually Getting Rebuilt Underground
The water main will be replaced from the Bay Village border to Parklawn Drive, while sewer reconstruction runs from Parklawn Drive to the entrance of Rocky River's service garage, the station's report states. The project area will also get new pavement, curbs, and driveway aprons once the underground work wraps up. Part of the water-main funding comes from the Cleveland Water Department, and the city separately received $197,750 in assistance from Cleveland's Division of Water for suburban water main replacements this year, according to the city's ordinance filing.
The proposed legislation does not provide a complete breakdown of the project's funding sources, and construction duration is not specified in the council agenda beyond an expectation that work begins in late 2026, per the city schedule cited in the report. Rocky River's broader utility push this year also includes work along Cornwall and Beachcliff streets, according to a city construction update.
A New Trail and Parking Lot Near Bradstreet's Landing
The off-road concrete trail is designed for multiple uses rather than solely for bicyclists, and it will run from the Bay Village border to Avalon Drive; the roadway would be narrowed by roughly five feet to create space for it, according to a separate Rocky River construction update. The project also includes two signalized pedestrian crossings connecting a new parking area with Bradstreet's Landing, on the south side of Lake Road, with construction happening alongside the water, sewer, and road work.
The new lot will hold 21 parking spaces, including one large enough for a vehicle towing a trailer, per Cleveland.com's reporting. The auxiliary lot is planned near Bradstreet's Landing, where a pier project broke ground in fall 2020 and the pier reopened in June, as detailed by Cleveland Magazine. The park itself carries deep historical roots — it's named after British Colonel John Bradstreet, whose 1,500-man military force traveled with 60 boats and nine canoes and suffered a catastrophic loss from wind and waves, according to the city's park master plan.
Part of a Wider Push to Reshape Lake Road
The western Lake Road plan is explicitly separate from Lake Road-Clifton Boulevard work already underway farther east near Lakewood, Cleveland.com notes. That eastern effort, a groundbreaking in March 2026 among Cuyahoga County, ODOT, Lakewood, and Rocky River, reduces a 1.2-mile stretch of Lake Road and Clifton Boulevard from four lanes to two, according to Cuyahoga County's public works department. Together, the two projects reflect a regional shift toward converting historic four-lane vehicular corridors into safer, multi-modal thoroughfares.
Pedestrian and bicycle enhancements along the Lake Road corridor trace back to the Community Confluence plan, funded through the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency's Transportation for Livable Communities Initiative, according to the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission. The project boundary on the Lake Road corridor is the Bay Village border.
If council approves the contract Monday, Rocky River will move ahead on a project that touches nearly every layer of western Lake Road — from buried pipes to the pavement above them to a brand-new trail alongside it. The vote would follow the May public meeting, though residents still don't have a full funding breakdown or a firm start date beyond the city's late-2026 target.
