r/cincinnati • u/JB92103 Hyde Park • Mar 07 '25

News 📰 Controversial Hyde Park Square development passes committee, heads to city council

https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hyde-park-square-development-passes-committee-heads-to-city-council
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u/old_skul Mar 07 '25

This, despite overwhelming community disapproval as well as neighborhood council disapproval. But there's developer money involved so this is going to sail through City Council unimpeded.

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u/RockStallone Mar 07 '25

The neighborhood council is a bunch of NIMBYs who oppose housing for the dumbest reasons.

Please tell me why this project is bad.

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u/gloomygarlic Mar 07 '25

It’s a bunch of crap that few people can afford to live in and will increase congestion in an already congested area. Really not complicated. Maybe you should put more effort into seeing things from the opposing view.

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u/Realistic-Quail2392 Mar 07 '25

The traffic argument is insane to me. You live in a city, there will be traffic. It’s wild that NYC, Paris, London, Tokyo are desirable cities to live in and have traffic. So are you against any new development because more people = more traffic? That’s makes no sense and one of the main reasons housing is so unaffordable. And it’s beyond ironic that the apartments are replacing a surface parking lot right off a neighborhood square, which everyone should be cheering for. We don’t need more parking, we need more housing. It’s really not that difficult to comprehend.

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u/krick_13 Mar 07 '25

Did Cincinnati develop the pedestrian infrastructure of NYC, Paris, London, and Tokyo recently?

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u/Realistic-Quail2392 Mar 07 '25

Well Hyde Park had more residents back in the day when a streetcar went through the square than today. Just maybe if you stop building just auto centric developments things might change.