Civil Municipal - Oct 2023

167 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 10 STRONGSVI LLE , OHIO north, south, east or west. We’re two cities over from the airport. It’s maybe three or four exits off the highway. It’s about an eight-to-10-minute drive to the airport from the northern side of our city. It’s usually about 15 to 20 minutes to downtown. We are strategically located.” Like many other cities, Strongsville has seen a big increase in hybrid employment. Employees can work three or four days from home in Strongsville or have a quick commute downtown. “All of our residential areas are serviced by high-speed Internet,” says Painter. “We went through a great public-private partnership to get high-speed fiber-optic lines installed in all of our business parks. That’s several years old now. We worked with different providers to get high-speed Internet on the ground so that our companies here can have a choice between different providers within the city. That technological side of it is extremely important to us because it’s something that’s going to become more and more relevant as we move forward.” He also spoke further about infrastructure. “We have a very active policy on infrastructure