Cuyahoga County wants more Van Akens, more Little Italys, more Gordon Squares and more Larchmere Boulevards.

Or to put it in city planner speak: more transit-oriented development.

On Monday, the county debuted a program that will soon dole out loans to developers who need to round-off financing for projects on or close by train or bus lines. Those builders can get up to a $2.5 million loan at an interest rate as low as four percent, as long as their project in less than a half mile from a transit line.

Those corridors -- 22 in total -- are where you'd expect, including near the Red, Blue, Green and Waterfront lines, the HealthLine, MetroHealth Line and about 10 highly-used other bus lines, from the 22 on Lorain Ave. to the 26 on Detroit and the 41 on Warrensville Road.

The county’s

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