As many of you have likely heard, on Friday the City Planning Commission met to discuss the proposed zone change requested by HPSRD, LLC. The meeting lasted almost six hours, and a recording can be viewed on archive.org.

Despite the overwhelming opposition from the residents, business owners, and civic organizations, the Planning Commission voted 3-1 to approve the zone change, via adopting the following motion:

I would move that we approve item 1 as the original application, under the condition, however, that it complies with the rear massing and scale adjustments and private driveway location change set forth in the revised application.

While disappointing, the proposed zone change will now face two votes by City Council.

It is critical for Hyde Park and our fellow Cincinnatians to contact City Council to ask them to vote against the Zone Change.

And as you contact City Council, please remember that the single “No” vote at Friday’s hearing was from Vice Mayor Jan-Michele Kearney. Thank her for listening to our concerns. We now need to help the other eight City Council Members understand we support development, but not the Zone Change. The existing zoning should stay in place.

Please join us at our monthly meeting this Tuesday, March 11th at 7pm at the Little Theater, on the second floor of Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church, at 1345 Grace Avenue, as we talk through potential next steps regarding this development.

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Watch Planning Commission Meeting Recording