We're excited to announce our next monthly meeting will be in-person! Please join us on Tuesday, April 12th at 7 pm at the Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church at 1345 Grace Avenue. The meeting will be held on the second floor, in the Little Theater. All are welcome to join!

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The community of Hyde Park is fortunate to be home to many talented, caring, and charitable individuals. Some have touched people with acts of kindness or added to the quality of life in our community. Others have shown remarkable dedication to neighborhood issues or made other significant contributions that have made a difference. Each year at its Annual Meeting, the Hyde Park Neighborhood Council (HPNC) honors an exemplary adult resident of Hyde Park — one of those remarkable people we are proud to call neighbor. HPNC invites all Hyde Park residents to nominate a Hyde Park adult who is worthy of this honor.

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Do you know a special Hyde Park resident who has touched people with acts of kindness or added significantly to the quality of life in our community? Someone who has shown remarkable dedication to neighborhood issues or made other major contributions that have made a difference? If so, please consider nominating them for this wonderful award.

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You can find the Nomination Form here. Once completed, please return it to HPNCpres@gmail.com by 5:00 PM on April 2nd, 2022.

The HPNC Board of Trustees would like to solicit feedback from the Hyde Park community about a pending proposal to create a Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area (DORA) around Hyde Park Square. To that end, we have created a quick survey that's available to all. You can get to the survey, as well as some additional information about DORAs and the the proposal, via this link.

Hyde Park School Proposed Expansion

UPDATE: The slides presented during the meeting are available on the Meetings & Minutes page, here.

There will be a special meeting on Wednesday, March 16th, at 7pm, specifically to discuss the proposed expansion of Hyde Park School. Please join us for a presentation by:

• Jill Sunderman, Principal, Hyde Park School
  
• Jamie Fairman, Project Manager, Cincinnati Public Schools
  
• Chris Dumford, VSWC Architects

Following the presentation, the HPNC will facilitate a discussion with the community about the proposed expansion.

This meeting will be held online, via Google Meet. You can participate without a Google account, but you must be using the desktop web version, not the Google Meet mobile app.‍

Date: March 16th, 2022
Time: 7 pm
Link: https://meet.google.com/mfy-wrxi-rvk
Phone: +1 605-865-2177 (PIN: 389614947)

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A combination of support from Hyde Park East Chamber of Commerce, Hyde Park Neighborhood Council, Hyde Park Neighborhood Improvement Corporation, and Cincinnati's Neighborhood Support Program, and others has resulted in three new identification pillars located at the Erie Ave and Saybrook Intersection. These pillars mimic the pillars originally constructed when Hyde Park East neighborhood was originally constructed back in the early 1900's. If all goes well, additional pillars will be constructed as funds become available.

HPNC will hold its upcoming meetings online; these January meetings were initially planned to be held in-person, but have been moved back online in response to recently increasing COVID-19 concerns. Meeting Minutes and Agendas for these, and all other meetings, can be found here.

Monthly Meeting

The regular monthly meeting will be Tuesday, January 11th (the second Tuesday of the month) at 7 pm via Google Meet. The draft agenda, written reports, and prior month's regular meeting's minutes will be posted to our website on Monday.

Special Meeting

Additionally, there will be a special meeting the following Thursday, January 13th, also at 7pm, specifically to discuss the development plans for the Hyde Park Baptist Church property at the corner of Michigan and Erie on Hyde Park Square (3460 Michigan Ave.). This meeting will also be held online via Google Meet.

Both meetings will use the Google Meet link provided below. You can participate without a Google account, but you must be using the desktop web version, not the Meet mobile app.

Read our December meeting agenda, December committee notes, and November minutes here:

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Read our November meeting agenda, November committee notes, and October minutes here:

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At the HPNC's October 12 monthly meeting, trustees received an update from representatives of the Hyde Park Square Business Association about a potential Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area (DORA) for Hyde Park.  The attached letter describes the motion passed by the HPNC, the HPNC's desire to continue providing feedback as an application is developed, and the HPNC's request for more information from the City about the application submission and approval process.

Read our October meeting agenda, October committee notes, and September minutes here: