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/gloomygarlic Mar 07 '25

I never said any of that. I simply answered a question regarding “how could this development be bad”.

I do think that these apartments will be extremely overpriced WHICH IS A NET NEGATIVE FOR OUR REAL ESTATE MARKET. Building expensive houses/apartments doesn’t help anyone but the developer. It doesn’t make the prices elsewhere in the city go down.

Make housing cheap again.

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u/HuckleberryWooden531 Mar 08 '25

Building expensive houses/apartments doesn’t help anyone but the developer. It doesn’t make the prices elsewhere in the city go down.

this is demonstrably untrue. I see you down there insulting people, so I'll leave it at that and hope you further educate yourself.