The East Price Hill Improvement Association (EPHIA) wants the site of the former Whittier Elementary School to become the home of a new state-of-the-art police station for District 3.
According EPHIA President Dan Boller, Jr, the District 3 station is outdated and suffers from a lack of adequate parking.
Fearing a long-term vacancy of the school, Boller and the EPHIA would like to work with the City to acquire the site and to prepare a master plan for a new District 3 station building. In the interim, the site could be used for spillover parking.
The former school is located at 945 Hawthorne Avenue, directly behind the current District 3 station.
Whittier Elementary had been scheduled to receive a new school building as part of Cincinnati Public Schools' (CPS) facilities master plan. In preparation, Whittier students were moved into the new Rees E. Price Academy on Considine Avenue in August 2006.
In November 2006, CPS removed the new Whittier school from its $1 billion building program due to low enrollments and cost overruns.
City Manager Milton Dohoney is expected to produce a feasibility report in early November.
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3 comments:
At first, I thought all the police cruisers lined up on Warsaw were kept on the street for easiest access to the next call. Then, I stopped by the station one day and realized it was because there was no room for them in the lot.
Normally, I'm not a big advocate for bigger parking lots, but in this case...
I'm just concerned that they're going to create a sea of parking. The combined police and Whittier sites would be huge!
Parking is needed for the library, the park and the police station. I might be wrong, but isn't District 3 the largest district in the city?
I think the plan is to demolish the school building and create green space until they work out the details of using the land.
An overlooked issue here is that Whittier was going to be rebuilt according to the school's master plan. Then they went over budget so this school was simply written off. I would rather them have just torn the school down and added to the park. However, someone should be accountable for going over budget and not providing the neighborhood with a ~$14M school building considering it was on the ballot and they've already taken our tax money.
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