Speaker 1: B aren't really glad to be with you.
Speaker 2: It's not just me, it's a whole team of people
Speaker 2: who did an amazing job here. We did get enough signatures.
Speaker 2: We are just overwhelmed with the turnout and the support
Speaker 2: that we've received, collecting more than eighteen thousand, three hundred
Speaker 2: signatures in order to put this issue on the referendum.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how excited were able to share
Speaker 1: that with you.
Speaker 3: Well, I think it's a serious I mean, you did
Speaker 3: it over nineteen days, the significant reflection of how angry
Speaker 3: the folks in Hyde Park over are over the fact
Speaker 3: that well representative government failed them. You got seven of
Speaker 3: the seven of the city council members that denied you, guys,
Speaker 3: your own destiny, charting your own zoning laws. They said, no,
Speaker 3: we're going to give these well connected developers a variance
Speaker 3: over the connected communities, which they show down every neighborhood's
Speaker 3: throat at first, and we're going to let you go
Speaker 3: ahead and move forward with your huge development. And I've
Speaker 3: seen the designs for this. Todd Zinser's been on the
Speaker 3: relation and he did the graphics that are circulating out.
Speaker 3: It's monstrous. The dynamic of high Park square be changed
Speaker 3: dramatically so it doesn't shock all.
Speaker 2: It is not just a Hyde Park case. We couldn't
Speaker 2: have actually hit this number. Even if we had every
Speaker 2: single man, woman and child in Hyde Park, we couldn't
Speaker 2: get anywhere near this. This is a city wide number,
Speaker 2: from Sailor Park to Mount Washington. This eighteen thousand people
Speaker 2: are spread out neighborhood after neighborhood after neighborhood. We had
Speaker 2: more than three hundred circulators of the petition volunteers, many
Speaker 2: of them first timers, ranging in age from eighteen to
Speaker 2: ninety two, and they were all over the city. We
Speaker 2: were in all kinds of neighborhoods, Mount Airy, north Side,
Speaker 2: North Avon Hill, Poddock, Paddock Hills, Mount Lookout, Mount Washington.
Speaker 2: We covered the waterfront, and the city gave us that number,
Speaker 2: not just Hyde Park.
Speaker 3: Well, I think the residents of the city is SINETI
Speaker 3: regardless of which neighborhood they're in, saw that you know
Speaker 3: they're but for the grace of God go y. I
Speaker 3: mean the council did this to Bond Hill as well,
Speaker 3: and people also might.
Speaker 1: Have regectne it to many other yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Well and connected communities that was done to every single neighborhood.
Speaker 3: They didn't even get input from the various neighborhoods around
Speaker 3: if they were interested in the connected communities zoning or not,
Speaker 3: and they obviously got it.
Speaker 1: That is the biggest piece of this.
Speaker 2: While this is a development issue that's now on going
Speaker 2: to be on the ballot once the Board of Elections
Speaker 2: certifies that we have more than the nine thousand, one
Speaker 2: hundred and forty six that we have to have ten
Speaker 2: percent of the last governor's race, this is really a
Speaker 2: statement about telling the city neighborhood councils, community councils, citizens
Speaker 2: themselves want to have a say in how their neighborhoods grow, change, develop.
Speaker 2: You can't have something like this and let just city
Speaker 2: council and commission and the developers decide what's going to be.
Speaker 2: That's why we had volunteers from all over the city
Speaker 2: and all the different neighborhoods. This is amazing too that
Speaker 2: what you're focusing on on what I really feel is
Speaker 2: the most important thing about citizens' voice and neighborhood councils
Speaker 2: planned Cincinnati. The functional Planning document for the city says
Speaker 2: that the city expects its community organizations such as community
Speaker 2: councils and business associations and others to actively participate in
Speaker 2: the development and revitalization of the communities they represent. That's
Speaker 2: a direct quote from that plan. This administration hasn't been
Speaker 2: doing that. I don't feel like it's been going on
Speaker 2: for a while. This is what the city has said
Speaker 2: today and with these and we will be dropping these
Speaker 2: off at City Hall. We'll be gathering around twelve thirty
Speaker 2: right on the front steps and we will be marching
Speaker 2: in the box is plural of petitions to hand them
Speaker 2: over to the city who get ten days with them.
Speaker 2: Then they go on to the Board of Elections, they
Speaker 2: get ten days with them, and then we'll know what
Speaker 2: number we actually got that was certified.
Speaker 3: Well, recognizing the huge support this petition drive as a
Speaker 3: resultant you obviously mentioned the number of signatures. All the
Speaker 3: different neighborhoods were hit and everybody from the various neighborhoods
Speaker 3: were signing this petition. They want to say in their
Speaker 3: own destiny and this is illustrative of the It's like
Speaker 3: a warning shot. Do you think council will revisit this?
Speaker 3: And shall I say unring the bell?
Speaker 2: John I don't think that's likely to happen given my
Speaker 2: experience with council over the last few months. Certainly several
Speaker 2: of them were generous with their time and did some listening,
Speaker 2: but we did not feel particularly hurt. And I think
Speaker 2: the machinery right now, the process, the systems are set
Speaker 2: up in a way that just forces this to happen.
Speaker 2: I don't personally think that there's very much likelihood that
Speaker 2: someone from City Council is going to say, hey, you
Speaker 2: know what, look at that number, we should do something about.
Speaker 1: This before it gets on the ballot. There were plenty
Speaker 1: of chances for that. This isn't something that just happened
Speaker 1: on April twenty third. This goes all the way back late.
Speaker 2: January, the very first meeting, they received more than seven
Speaker 2: hundred emails saying please don't do this, and nobody changed
Speaker 2: their behavior. Nobody changed. Then we have the Planning Commission
Speaker 2: meeting in March, five and a half hours of testimony.
Speaker 2: That was another chance, and I didn't see anybody change
Speaker 2: their behavior. Then the last couple of days April twenty
Speaker 2: two and twenty three, the Equitable Growth and Housing Committee
Speaker 2: and City Council itself, we got a fairly stern talking
Speaker 2: to from the front of the room about we need
Speaker 2: marriage counseling with the developer because we're not coming unicating
Speaker 2: well altogether. And the developer was saying, you know, it
Speaker 2: was really hard. We took it from the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Always just saying mean things about us.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody's going to change their behavior today,
Speaker 2: even with this astounding number in front of them.
Speaker 3: Well astounding number for the petition, but also on the
Speaker 3: heels of and as your release points out, forty nine
Speaker 3: hundred residents signed the Change that organ petition asking the
Speaker 3: city to enforce the zoning. Obviously it's the connected community zoning,
Speaker 3: in other words, not a grant of variance to these
Speaker 3: well connected developers. Nineteen civic organizations the community councils represent
Speaker 3: nearly one hundred and fifty thousand residents publicly oppose the
Speaker 3: zone change, So they knew damn well in advance there
Speaker 3: was this massive opposition, which is why it illustrates the
Speaker 3: failure of representative government. They didn't care what their constituents want.
Speaker 2: Thank you, that's what we feel, that's what we've experienced,
Speaker 2: and we've been able to take the actions thanks to
Speaker 2: all of our volunteers. Thanks to the team to put
Speaker 2: this together and say now you have to listen to us.
Speaker 2: You didn't listen to us before now, And I'm really
Speaker 2: glad we're ending your week on an abe absolutive story.
Speaker 2: There's so many people, I mean, there's so much hard
Speaker 2: news anyway, and I know a lot of people in
Speaker 2: this world are feeling like I don't know what to
Speaker 2: do well, I don't know what it is you should
Speaker 2: be doing or anybody else should be doing. But we
Speaker 2: went out and we did this, and it feels good,
Speaker 2: it feels right, and it's a positive thing to say.
Speaker 2: Representative government still has to hear the people. I am
Speaker 2: excited to see this go forward, and we're just really
Speaker 2: grateful to everyone who signed, everyone who collected, everybody who
Speaker 2: worked on it. Today is a real celebration day.
Speaker 3: For us, absolutely, and you know, praise you deserve all
Speaker 3: the praise in the world for your efforts, Johnson's or
Speaker 3: and everybody else who passed around the petitions. You make
Speaker 3: a real strong point here and I absolutely love the
Speaker 3: point that you're making. And I'll drive people to the
Speaker 3: polls this November two, and I'm sure council may be
Speaker 3: sweating a little bit over that as well. John Zinzer
Speaker 3: behind the signed the High Park Save the Hyde Park
Speaker 3: Square petition. It's been pleasure having you on and I'm
Speaker 3: glad you were ending on the week on a positive note,
Speaker 3: as you observe, John, it makes me feel really good
Speaker 3: about that. And for the residents of High.
Speaker 1: Parks, thanks for having us again. Brian, please come out
Speaker 1: and join us at city Hall.
Speaker 2: I feel like at twelve thirty to day and I
Speaker 2: wish everybody a really good Memorial Day weekend.
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