CLEVELAND — A regional planning agency is pumping the brakes in Brook Park, urging more scrutiny of proposed road work to support a new suburban Browns stadium.

On Friday afternoon, the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency’s planning and programming committee sent the public infrastructure plan a step backward in a lengthy review process. That means it will take Haslam Sports Group and Brook Park at least three months longer than expected – until March, at the earliest – to get the road changes adopted as part of a regional transportation plan.

Why does that matter?

NOACA’s long-range plan is a springboard for federal funding, which Brook Park might end up needing to pull off changes to freeway ramps around the 176-acre stadium and entertainment-district site.

And though NOACA d

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