CLEVELAND, Ohio - City Council voted Monday to establish a special arts district on either side of Superior Avenue inside the Innerbelt that will work to keep the neighborhood clean and secure.

The area is home to several galleries, artist studios and workshops, particularly in several former industrial buildings in the neighborhood. Creation of the district will allow the city to assess property owners to raise money that will help with improvements in the neighborhood as well as marketing efforts.

The assessments are something the property owners sought.

The Cleveland Superior Arts Improvement District is an effort to develop and market the arts community in an area between East 18th Street and East 26th Street south of St. Clair Avenue and north of Payne Avenue on the East Side.

The goal is to spark growth in the arts community and development in the neighborhood in a way that is similar to what has happened in the Gordon Square neighborhood on the city's West Side.

The district boundaries were approved in August after more than 60 percent of the property owners in the area petitioned for creation of the district.

Legislation approved Monday was the last step in the creation of the district.