Hyde Park residents will meet Tuesday night to air their grievances with an incoming development project along the newly opened Wasson Way mixed-use trail that connects their neighborhood with several others.
But their efforts might be too little, too late — if they had any recourse at all.
A GROUP IN HYDE PARK ISDISCUSSING WAYS TO STOP ADEVELOPER FROM BUILDING ANAPARTMENT COMPLEX ON THE NEWWASSON WAY TRAIL.THE RESIDENTSSAY IT WILL CAUSE TRAFFIC ANDFLOODING PROBLEMS.WCPO NINENEWS REPORTER COURTNEYFRANCISCO REPORTS THEY'RESCHEDULED TO MEET TONIGHT.IN about two hours, residentswill meet about thiscontroversial new complexgoing in here on wasson wayoff edwards road and michiganavenue here at the old hydepark floral.
That's where thecomplex will stand pastrenderings show it being sixstories high around the heightof those trees taking up theentire block .
Residents havea sign here that say stopwasson tower they have twomain problems with it.-- ONE SIDE SAYS STOP WASSONTOWER... THE OTHER SAYS-TRANSFORM THIS HYDE PARKBLOCK.it's just too big for thespace."it was exciting to be able totie up the site MONICA AHRENSLIVES IN HYDE PARK... LEADINGA GROUP AGAINST BUILDING ANAPARTMENT COMPLEX HERE.ANDNICK LINGENFELTER IS VICEPRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT FORTHE COMPANY DOING JUST THAT-PLK COMMUNITIES.FIRST ISSUE:SEWAGE.164419.
Many people do havebackups with flooding andthings like that and it willcontribute so much more, too.i dont know if the sewagesystem in the area can handleit.11639we're actually building asignificant undergrounddetention system to make surewe're detaining all the waterthere.
That's part of the cityprocess.SECOND CONCERN:TRAFFIC.... THE PROPERTY ISOFF THE NEW WASSON WAYTRAIL... ON MICHIGAN AVENUE...YOU'LL LIKELY RECOGNIZE NEARBYEDWARDSROAD.Now there are so many runnerswalkers bikers kids that arewalking on this and there'salready so much traffic onwasson raod turning ontoedwards has a whole lot oftraffic backups.it actually has two exits themajority of them actually exiton shaw not Michigan but it isonly 51 units.
CRITICS ASKEDFOR A STUDY BUT THE PROPERTYUSED TO BE COMMERCIAL USE--GARDEN CENTER AND RAIL ROADSPUR...that would have generatedsignificant more daily trafficthan we are so that doestntrigger an additional need fora traffic study HE SAYS PLKDID ITS OWN STUDIES ANDCLEANED UP ENVIRONMENTALCONCERSN FROM RAIL ROAD OIL INTHE GROUND.RESIDENTS STILLWANT TO DISCUSS RETAIL SPACEAND PLANS... BUT PLK SAYSSINCE IT MEETS CITY CODE 100PERCENT, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO DOTHAT.I AM WAITING FOR THE CITYTO RETURN MY REQUEST TO VERIFYTHAT.the development itself isentitled and it's not going tochangePLK SAYS DEMO STARTSTHIS WEEK, CONSTRUCTION IN 45DAYS... IT SHOULD BE DONE IN14MONTHS."People are not happy--ll tag:the sign out here on theintersection says meetingstarts tonight .... reportingfrom hyde park cf wcpo ninenews.park cf wcpo nine news.