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The Pleasant Ridge market study has been sent by the Pleasant Ridge Community Council's (PRCC) Neighborhood Committee to the City's Department of City Planning for review.
The market feasibility study was prepared by Kinzelman Kline & Gossman as an update to the neighborhood's 1999 strategic plan.
The document is meant to help guide future business development, tenanting and recruitment for the neighborhood, specifically within the Montgomery/Ridge/Woodford "triangle" and along the Montgomery Road corridor.
Residents, business owners and stakeholders were all part of the planning process, which began in 2005.
Among some of the study's ideas:
* A village green with outdoor dining or a large, centralized office or residential building for the "triangle"
* Market-rate housing above ground-floor retail along Montgomery Road
* Development of medium- to high-density residential or a retirement community on the Ridge Club site
* A performing arts venue
* Inter-connected public parking, surface or decked
* Mixed-use infill
* Single-family detached homes on scattered sites
* Relocation and/or expansion of UDF and Mullaney's
* Redevelopment of Burger King site
A report from the planning department is due by the middle of March.
Katharine Powell, one of the vice presidents of the PRCC, estimates that the finalized plan will appear before City Council for adoption in June.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Pleasant Ridge study sent for planning review
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Good luck to them.
My neighborhood, Kennedy Heights, did the same kind of plan. The city department said it was the best neighborhood plan they had seen, the most comprehensive and well-thought out.
Top on the list of what we didn't want? Pony keg.
Who bought a piece of land in the neighborhood and went for a liquor license? A pony keg.
The planning department laid a freeze and helped stop the building while the community fought the liquor license.
We sent 150 people to Columbus to testify against the license--the most they had ever seen. We sent people twice.
And then the planning department let the interim freeze on buildings lapse for a day. They said they "hoped he wouldn't notice." And despite some heroic effort after the fact by council the damage was done. He got his building permit. And the liquor license.
So good luck. But don't count on any help from the city.
^ Why would Planning let it lapse for a day? What was the explanation?
Sorry, didn't see your question until now.
There was in interim freeze on development while the zoning codes for the city were revised. They accidentally let the freeze lapse. The code revision took longer than they expected but the guy in the development department we were working with was on vacation. Another person in the department told us that perhaps the pony keg guy wouldn't notice. Of course he did. He was paying lawyers to notice for him.
When the guy showed up to refile for his permit the building department delayed as much as they could, calling up to Council, which was in session, to let them know what was happening. Laketa Cole pushed through a resolution in Council right then to maintain the freeze, without having the 24-hour notice for such a motion.
A judge ruled that this action was illegal and the guy should get his permit. He did. And now we have the tastefully landscaped "Beverage Cave" right across from the Kennedy Heights Arts Center and Cornerstone Baptist Church. Yeah--the Ohio Liquor Board gave a beer and wine license to a location right next to a church.
We got screwed by both the city and the state. So again, good luck to Pleasant Ridge. Perhaps the city will work harder for them. But if they do it kind of makes you wonder why.
Why did the city act illegally against a new business that was filling a void and replacing a long time eyesore in a community that has many eyesores that have remained vacant with no activity for over 15 yrs? I think they should focus more on other buildings in Kennedy Heights then bitch about their failures. I drive thru The Beverage Cave and it truely is a gem... I have not seen a better drive thru anywhere..
I think it is a blessing that my neighborhood finally has a thriving business on that site instead of a vacant chicken place that was vacant for probably 12 or so yrs before the drive thru was built! Amen to The Cave! This guy who posted the last message should have bought the lot if he wanted to control the use of the property. Shame on him, Shame on Laketa Cole, Shame on Charlie Luken That Let this all go on! Poor Leadership is why our city has struggled to much to attract new businesses for so long! Shame on you Commies! Quit wasting our tax payers money on a bunch of fantasies! Start taking action instead of dreaming and talking! The Cave is what America is All About... That guy had a dream Shame on all of you for trying to take his dream away from him! He is bringing in more tax revenue then kennedy heights has seen for some time. God Bless The Cave! And God Bless every business owner that takes a chance in the city of cincinnati!
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