Neighborhood Updates

A new Long Range Plan for Hyde Park is finally nearing completion, after much time and thought from a Steering Committee of residents and business owners, working with City Planning Staff. Halted by COVID and then slowed by the need to make major updates to previous work, the plan is entering its final conception stages. Public meetings will be held on the completed plan, hopefully in Fall 2024, but the Steering Committee wants to seek your input now.

Please come to What's Up, Hyde Park? on Monday, June 3, at 6:30 PM, in the meeting room of the Hyde Park Library. This public meeting, open to all Hyde Park residents, businesses, and property owners, is both a conversation and information session on issues that matter to you:

• Hear an overview of the new Long-Range Plan, ask questions, and learn about how it relates to Connected Communities.
• [This plan will replace the one adopted by the City of Cincinnati in 1983.]
• Tell us your vision for the future of our community – What needs to be included in this Plan? What did the Steering Committee overlook?

This session is presented by members of the Hyde Park Long Range Plan Steering Committee. Please come, learn, be heard!

The May 17th Planning Commission agenda contains a single item: Connected Communities.

For those unfamiliar, the Connected Communities legislation, at present, contains proposed text amendments modifying multiple Chapters of Title XIV, “Zoning Code of the City of Cincinnati,” and Title XVII, “Land Development Code,” of the Cincinnati Municipal Code.

We are requesting that those of you with strong opinions please engage and consider joining the Planning Commission meeting.

During the meeting the full report (available at the link below) will be presented by Planning Staff. They will then allow for anyone from the Public to provide comments for up to 3 minutes. This will be followed by Planning Staff discussion and then likely voting.

Meeting specifics are below:

Friday, May 17, 2024, starting at 9:00 a.m.

Cincinnati City Hall

Council Chambers, Room 300

801 Plum Street

Cincinnati, OH 45202

View the Planning Commission Connected Communities Meeting Packet (PDF) >

Please join us on Tuesday, May 14th, at 7:00 PM, for the Annual Meeting which includes awards and trustee election by HPNC members.

It will be held at Hyde Park School, at 3401 Edwards Road. Please enter through Door #1, which is adjacent to the main parking lot, on Edwards Rd.

HPNC also holds monthly meetings, which are the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM; since the location may vary, please check on the HPNC website, Facebook, or the previous meeting packet to confirm the location of future meetings; the meeting packet can be found below or on the Meetings & Minutes page.

View May Meeting Packet (PDF) >

Earlier today HPNC delivered the letter below to Mayor Pureval, City Council, and several other members of City of Cincinnati government.

Should you wish to read the entire letter you can find a PDF of it here.

And the full survey results and analysis are available here.

At the April HPNC meeting Membership voted to adopt new bylaws. During the discussion prior to the vote a number of issues with the bylaws were raised. Rather than delaying the vote, as a number of members of the audience made very clear they had joined because of the previously announced vote, the HPNC President decided to hold the vote. Prior to making this decision it was agreed that a second vote would be held at the May meeting regarding the slight changes proposed. To that end, we are sharing a modified version of the bylaws adopted at the April meeting, which reflects those changes. We will be requesting a vote on these modifications as part of the May meeting.

Below are the sections where changes have been proposed to the bylaws adopted in April. You can see a clean version of the bylaws that will be put up for a vote at the link below.

If you would like to review the proposed bylaws, in full, you can find them here.

Connected Communities is pending legislation within the City of Cincinnati that has the potential to have a significant impact on Hyde Park. If you are not familiar with the key tenets of Connected Communities, and how it will impact Hyde Park, you can learn more at the survey link below.

We are seeking feedback from the Hyde Park community to deliver directly to the City of Cincinnati. To that end, we would very much appreciate it if you could take the time to respond to the survey linked below.

Click here to view and complete the survey >

There is an opportunity for some members of our community to have their lead service line replaced free of charge! Greater Cincinnati Water Works is starting a project soon in Hyde Park. Please check out the linked map to confirm the locations, but if you live on one of the following streets you may be able to get your privately-owned lead service line replaced at no cost:

• Besuden Court
• Burch Ave.
• Clarkwood Place
• Erie Ave.
• Kendall Ave.
• Madison Road
• Mooney Ave.
• Stettinius Ave.
• Villa Lane

For more details on the program please call 513-651-LEAD (5323) or email GCWW at lead@gcww.cincinnati-oh.gov.

You can also join the April meeting to hear directly from a representative from Greater Cincinnati Water Works.

The map and some other program details can be found here.

Please join us on Tuesday, March 12th, at 7:00 PM for the monthly meeting.

It will be held in the Little Theater, on the second floor of Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church, at 1345 Grace Ave.

Monthly meetings are the second Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM; since the location may vary, please check on the HPNC website, Facebook, or the previous meeting packet to confirm the location of future meetings; the meeting packet can be found below or on the Meetings & Minutes page.

Download meeting packet (PDF) >

Cincinnati Tennis Foundation will be holding a community meeting to discuss the planned changes to Withrow's outdoor tennis courts (located along Kendall Ave.), converting a yet-to-be-determined number to indoor courts. It will be held on Wednesday, February 28th from 5:30 to 6:30 PM at Withrow Alumni Center (2488 Madison Rd.).

For more information contact: info@cincytf.org.

The Mount Lookout Community Council will be hosting a meeting of City Council's Healthy Neighborhoods Committee on Wednesday, February 21 from 5:30 to 7:00 PM at the Kilgour School Gymnasium (1339 Herschel Ave.)

While the panel will include Mt. Lookout representatives, all members of the public are encouraged to attend. There will be refreshments and an opportunity to ask questions and give input; however, as a Cincinnati City Council meeting, one will need to fill out a speaker card to be given time, and be limited to only 2 minutes.

The meeting will be broadcast on the city's CitiCable webpage — A notice for the meeting is available in docx format on the Kilgour PTA website — as is a small poster image.

For more information contact: (513) 352 5205

If you have cable TV, CitiCable is on channel 23 for Spectrum and 800 for Fioptics.

Watch recording >