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Tuesday, a senior city planner shared proposed zoning changes with a council committee. These are changes he said the South Fairmount Community Council has already voted for.
Cincinnati Magazine
February 25, 2021
In a valley off of the wide bowl that cradles downtown Cincinnati, a long-buried creek has returned to the daylight. Where blighted buildings stood shoulder to shoulder along Queen City and Westwood avenues, a stream again runs, riffles, falls, and pools. It undulates past a playground, basketball courts, and a community space.
Lick Run Greenway brings an ancient creek back to the surface between Queen City (on the right) and Westwood avenues in South Fairmount.
Photograph by Deb Leonard
The creek is both ancient and new. And the next chapter in its life could welcome a brighter future for a neglected neighborhood.