Parma buying up homes to reduce flooding along Pleasant Valley Road [Video]

PARMA, Ohio — The city of Parma is aggressively working to reduce flooding once and for all in one particular area. For years—folks living along Pleasant Valley Road across from Cuyahoga Community College have been dealing with extreme damage due to heavy rain events.

The city and the Northeast Ohio Sewer District have a solution. It involves buying up and knocking down some homes in that area. It’s all being done to restore the space to a natural floodplain.

Helen Younglas loves getting her steps in.

So, she walks the stretch of Pleasant Valley near York Road in Parma daily.

But she says the scenery, or rather who lives here, is changing.

“I find it kind of interesting with them coming and going,” Helen Younglas said.

In conjunction with NEORSD, Parma continues to push forward with plans to purchase and knock down homes that sit on the natural floodplain.

But not everyone has been on board. Many …