Neighborhood Business District Improvement Program

Grant Application Attachments

Pedestrian Safety Leadsto Vibrancy on

Warsaw & Glenway

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Project Map:

DOTE Warsaw Collision Diagram (2017):

DOTE Warsaw Road Diet (2017):

(2008 Basemap - 2017 study)

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A, Uo @o/r* @orhrr"u4323 Glenway Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45205 (513) 363-9800 phone (513) 363-9820 fax

March 19,2019

To Whom It May Concern,

On behalf of Carson Elementary School, this letter is to express fuil srpport of Price Hill Willand the West Price Hill Community Council's Neighborhood Business District ImprovementProgram OIBDIP) grant application to address the street lights along Glenway Avenue. It willalso create large gateway signs, welcoming visitors into West Price Hill's business district. Thegrant will help replace the current high-pressure sodium lights with energy efficient LED lights,along with adding large gateway signs at the business district's entrances. The LED lights emit ahigher quality of light, have greater area covgrage, and use roughly 35% less energy than thecurrent lights. Installing LED lights would be more cost-effective long term and would create a

safer pedestrian and vehicular environment along Glenway Avenue at night. These measures willhelp West Price Hill's Neighborhood Business District by creating a safer pedestrian andvehicular environment along the neighborhood's business corridor. They will also enhance WestPrice Hill's business community by adding large gateway signs.

As a school on Glenway Avenue in West Price Hill, the proposed changes will be beneficial toour students and parents who walk along this busy street daily to make it to our building. Byincreasing the visibility of street signage and traffic lights, we hope there will be a reduction inthe risk of pedestrians being injured by motorist traffic. Due to the location of our school (on thecorner of Glenway Avenue and Sunset Avenue), pedestrian safety has been a topic of concerndiscussed in our Instructional Leadership Team and Local School Decision Making Committeemeetings. The added benefit of being energy efficient supports our goal of saving 10 millionkilowatt-hours of energy during the 2018-19 school year through the My Energy Kit Challenge,a partnership with Duke Energy, offered to parents and community members.

Please view Price Hill Will and the West Price Hill Community Council's NeighborhoodBusiness District Improvement Program grant application with full consideration.

Sincerely,

0(***o A -e*r,oDr. Christina RussoPrincipalCarson Elementary School

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To Whom It May Concern,

On behalf of McDonald’s on Warsaw Avenue in East Price Hill, this letter is to express full support of

Price Hill Will and East Price Hill Improvement Association’s Neighborhood Business District

Improvement Program (NBDIP) grant application to address Warsaw Avenue’s safety issues. The grant

will help fund a traffic calming project with the Cincinnati Department of Traffic and Engineering, which

will implement measures to slow traffic on Warsaw. Possible strategies may include establishing 24-hour

parking on the north side of Warsaw near Kroger, replacing stoplights with stop signs, reducing the total

lanes of traffic from four to two with a middle left-hand turn lane, or some additional measures. The

grant also addresses improving lighting by replacing current street lights with energy efficient LED lights

which are brighter and less expensive to operate, with the goal of improving traffic safety and

decreasing crime. These measures will help East Price Hill’s Neighborhood Business District by creating a

safer pedestrian environment that will encourage more foot traffic to support local businesses.

Furthermore, East Price Hill will welcome the City of Cincinnati’s Neighborhood Enhancement Program

(NEP) and Place-Based Investigations of Violent Offender Territories (PIVOT) in 2019. If awarded, Price

Hill Will’s NBDIP grants will support the efforts of both City programs.

As the owner of McDonald’s on Warsaw Avenue in East Price Hill, the proposed changes will benefit my

business by potentially creating a safer environment for both automobiles and pedestrians. Decreases in

crime and traffic issues will improve the perspectives of the East Price Hill community, and help my

business thrive through increased traffic.

Please view Price Hill Will and East Price Hill Improvement Association’s Neighborhood Business District

Improvement Program grant application with full consideration.

Sincerely,

Erica Shadoin

Price Hill McDonald’s 3738 Warsaw Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45205

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To Whom It May Concern,

On behalf of St. Lawrence School, this letter is to express full support of Price Hill Will and the East Price

Hill Improvement Association’s Neighborhood Business District Improvement Program (NBDIP) grant

application to address Warsaw Avenue’s unsafe traffic. The grant will fund a comprehensive traffic study

that will inform traffic calming recommendations from the 2017 Warsaw Alive! plan, which was

approved by the City of Cincinnati. It will also improve lighting by replacing current street lights with

energy efficient LED lights. These measures will help East Price Hill’s Neighborhood Business District by

taking the first crucial step in creating a safer pedestrian and vehicular environment.

Furthermore, East Price Hill will welcome the City of Cincinnati’s Neighborhood Enhancement Program

(NEP) and Place-Based Investigations of Violent Offender Territories (PIVOT) in 2019. If awarded, Price

Hill Will and the East Price Hill Improvement Association’s NBDIP grant will support the efforts of both

City programs.

As a school on Warsaw Avenue in East Price Hill, the proposed changes will benefit us by improved

visibility for students crossing Warsaw Avenue and Carson Avenue. It is our hope that the crosswalk

signage will also be improved. Currently, only a few drivers respect the 20 MPH school zone, and even

fewer stop when pedestrians are at the crosswalk.

Please view Price Hill Will and the East Price Hill Improvement Association’s Neighborhood Business

District Improvement Program grant application with full consideration.

Sincerely,

Rich Klus, Principal

St. Lawrence Elementary School

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To Whom It May Concern,

On behalf of Warsaw Federal, this letter is to express full support of Price Hill Will and the East Price Hill

Improvement Association’s Neighborhood Business District Improvement Program (NBDIP) grant

application to address Warsaw Avenue’s unsafe traffic. The grant will fund a comprehensive traffic study

that will inform traffic calming recommendations from the 2017 Warsaw Alive! plan, which was

approved by the City of Cincinnati. It will also improve lighting by replacing current street lights with

energy efficient LED lights. These measures will help East Price Hill’s Neighborhood Business District by

taking the first crucial step in creating a safer pedestrian and vehicular environment.

Furthermore, East Price Hill will welcome the City of Cincinnati’s Neighborhood Enhancement Program

(NEP) and Place-Based Investigations of Violent Offender Territories (PIVOT) in 2019. If awarded, Price

Hill Will and the East Price Hill Improvement Association’s NBDIP grant will support the efforts of both

City programs.

As a Financial Institution on Warsaw Avenue in East Price Hill, the proposed changes will benefit me by...

Allowing more individuals to feel safer while walking in the Warsaw Avenue. I think more lighting at

night will allow for others to also visit the area and feel safe.

Please view Price Hill Will and the East Price Hill Improvement Association’s Neighborhood Business

District Improvement Program grant application with full consideration.

Sincerely,

Jose Suliveres

Branch Manager

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Board of Directors Mark Childers, Chair

Betsy Sundermann, Vice Chair Greg Meyers, Treasurer

Bradley Higginbotham, Secretary

Gladys Bell Kathy Ciarla Jeff Cramerding Sr. Sally Duffy, SC

John Hageman

Mimi Hart Patti Hogan Cheryl Horne Sr. Sandy Howe, SC

Rev. Dr. Frank Nation

Joe Rudemiller Tamara Thrasher Bridgette Tiquet Todd Wade

Rachel Hastings Executive Director

April 3, 2019

Brian Ogawa Development Analyst Department of Community and Economic Development Two Centennial Plaza 805 Central Avenue, Suite 700 Cincinnati, OH 45202 Dear Brian, Please accept this letter of support for the joint Neighborhood Business District Implementation Program funding request co-submitted by Price Hill Will, the East Price Hill Improvement Association, and the West Price Hill Community Council. We are excited to be working together! Price Hill Will is pleased to be partnering with EPHIA and WPHCC, as well as local business owners and residents, to bring safety improvements to the Warsaw and Glenway corridors. The speed of vehicular traffic on these corridors is such that it is very difficult for residents and shoppers to safely traverse the neighborhood business districts. Moreover, criminal activity is so rampant on Warsaw that our businesses are suffering. Adding LED streetlights on Warsaw and Glenway, as well as implementing long-discussed traffic calming measures on Warsaw, will finally allow us to maintain and recruit new businesses to restore health to our NBDs. As you know from the 2018 Warsaw Alive! Plan, EPHIA and Price Hill Will partnered with the City to create an ambitious vision to revive the business district along Warsaw Avenue. In the Plan, residents, business owners, local leaders, and City stakeholders set forth goals that promote resident-serving retail, create opportunities for some destination commercial activity, encourage pedestrian safety, and develop an improved perception of safety. Since the plan was adopted, EPHIA and PHW have been working diligently to implement the plan (to this end, NEP and PIVOT are currently working on Warsaw). We are thrilled to work with many City Departments, including the Police Department, to finally improve outcomes for Warsaw. Our neighbors in West Price Hill are looking forward to beginning their neighborhood planning process this month. We hope that City staff and CNBDU look upon our joint application for funding for pedestrian safety on Warsaw and Glenway Avenues favorably. Please contact me should any questions or ideas arise. Thank you,

Rachel Hastings Executive Director rachel@pricehillwill.org (513) 251-3800 x104

Price Hill Will

3724 St. Lawrence Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45205 p: 513-251-3800 w: www.pricehillwill.org

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East Price Hill Business Alliance

Sheila Rosenthal

EPHBA Chairperson

PO Box 5420 Cincinnati, OH 45205 business@ephia.org

April 17, 2019

To Whom It May Concern,

The East Price Hill Business Alliance is in full support of the Neighborhood Business

District Improvement Program (NBDIP) grant application being made jointly by

EPHIA, the East Price Hill Improvement Association community council, the West

Price Hill Community Council (WPHCC), and Price Hill Will, the community

development corporation for Price Hill. The focus of the grant application is vehicular

and pedestrian safety on the East and West Price Hill Neighborhood Business

Districts, which abut at the intersection of Warsaw and Glenway Avenues. Improved

safety in the East Price Hill business district on Warsaw Avenue will be achieved

through LED street lighting and traffic calming measures. These environmental

modifications are needed to help retain current businesses and attract new ones.

Improving vehicular and pedestrian safety through increased lighting and decreased

traffic speeds while discouraging criminal activity will enable our business district to

become more of a destination: they will promote both automobile and foot traffic to

the NBD rather than just through the NBD.

The Warsaw Avenue Neighborhood Business District is on the brink of a

renaissance which has been many years in the making, and our community is

working hard to make the NBD stronger and better. Implementation of the outlined

improvements is needed to sustain and broaden our positive trend.

The East Price Hill Business Alliance supports these much-needed improvements

along Warsaw Avenue which will revitalize our member businesses and encourage

new businesses to locate here. We ask that you support it as well.

Sincerely,

Sheila Rosenthal

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4/25/2019 FW: [External Email] Warsaw PIVOT / NBDIP - davidivanness@gmail.com - Gmail

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FW: [External Email] Warsaw PIVOT / NBDIP Inbox

Rachel Hastings via pricehillwillorg.onmicrosoft.com 9:43 AM (4 hours ago)to Ian, me

Can you please include this in the NBDIP attachments? We haven’t gotten any additional letters of support, but the info from DOTE and PIVOT are the really useful. Rachel HastingsExecutive Director

3724 St. Lawrence AvenueCincinnati, OH 45205p: 513-251-3800, ext. 104m: 513-312-3259f: 513-251-8500

From: Hammer, Matthew [mailto:Matthew.Hammer@cincinnati­oh.gov] Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2019 3:15 PM

To: Rachel Hastings Subject: RE: [External Email] Warsaw PIVOT / NBDIP

Rachel, Yes – you’re correct. It has been very, very busy – but very productive! Glad to share more soon. Thank you for sending me another email about this, because I dropped the ball on the last one. Apologies! I’ll include several items below and attached – hopefully they are helpful. Please call if I miss anything! Matt

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4/25/2019 FW: [External Email] Warsaw PIVOT / NBDIP - davidivanness@gmail.com - Gmail

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Lieutenant Matthew HammerCincinnati Police DepartmentSpecial Services Section ­ PIVOT513­352­2548/513­478­2257 cellMatthew.hammer@cincinnati­oh.gov Name of DOJ grantInnovations in Community Based Crime Reduction (DOJ/BJA) Total amount funded$999,042 – special conditions remain in place, so the project is not yet underway. Any day, hopefully… Confirmation that the funds are focused on safety in the Warsaw corridorShort answer – yes. Longer answer – the grant solicitation identified the neighborhood of East Price Hill as the project area. So grant dollars would be applied in East Price Hill. More specifically, we know that many of the hotspots of greatest concern are directly on the Warsaw corridor, so it is fair to imagine that grant resources will concentrate on thiscorridor, but not to the exclusion of other East Price Hill locations identified as appropriate. I have attached the project abstract to this email in case that is helpful as well.(primary, secondary, tertiary goals ID’d in abstract) Any other description of the EAPLanguage from EAP is below: The Cincinnati Police Department (CPD) will work with community partners to launch an early action project during the CBCR planning phase. According to CBCR guidelines,“an early action project can be any activity that helps build confidence among community members and other partners in the CBCR process, and that illustrates the kind ofneighborhood or community improvements that could be achieved through the CBCR process and beyond.” Recent community and cross­sector partner discussions have emphasized three key needs that might be addressed within the early action project: 1. A need to build a larger engagement team is necessary, particularly among small businesses in the focus area. Clearly, the higher the percentage of owners, managers,and decision­makers that participate in the area of focus, the greater the likelihood of success. 2. A need for multi­lingual inclusion. Community perception is that the neighborhood’s Hispanic population has not been engaged as much as is necessary. Disconnects areperceived to exist between the Hispanic population and law enforcement, and there is concern that criminal victimization is higher than reported. 3. A need for greater public attention to the problems of violence (sometimes unreported), opioid related harms, prostitution, and human trafficking in this area;communicated in both English and Spanish. Investigators have noted a recent rise in vice arrests of Spanish speaking individuals. All three of these needs may be addressed by a robust public messaging and engagement early action project. The tentative early action project plan includes the following: 1. Acquiring billboard space in the project area to advertise project launch, to communicate engagement opportunities and contact information, and to provide basiceducation regarding project goals and recognized problems to include advertisement of Spanish language communication opportunities with law enforcement.

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4/25/2019 FW: [External Email] Warsaw PIVOT / NBDIP - davidivanness@gmail.com - Gmail

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2. Creating and distributing door­hangers and/or flyers with messaging regarding CBCR programming, engagement opportunities and contact information, and specificcrime prevention goals and opportunities. These may also be placed at key public engagement locations, such as the local grocery store, recreation center, and centers forHispanic outreach and engagement. 3. Creation and installation of companion signage in this focus area. In a previous project site, PIVOT team members created signs somewhat similar in design to block­watch signs, but demonstrating the partnership between the local community council and police. These signs were placed in conjunction with, but outside areas of public safetycamera surveillance. The goal was to expand the “area of awareness” so offenders would feel a greater sense of prosocial community engagement and perceive a higher risk ofapprehension. In the former project, levels of violence declined, although the impact of signage cannot be determined over­and­above other coordinated interventions. Large billboards conveniently exist at either end of the area of greatest focus, the Warsaw Avenue Corridor. Small billboards currently exist near the center of this corridor. Carefully crafted art and messaging could visually define the project space, connecting signage to billboards, and to flyers and door hangers. This could raise awareness of thespace and help accomplish the early action goals of building a larger engagement team, taking steps to address multi­lingual barriers, and drawing greater public attention tothe problems the CBCR grant intends to help address.

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4/25/2019 Gmail - Fwd: letter from DOTE for Warsaw NBDIP application

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From: Vogel, Joseph C <Joe.Vogel@cincinnati­oh.gov> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 5:19:09 PM

To: Ogawa, Brian Cc: sk.rosenthal@gmail.com; Rachel Hasngs; Brazina, John

Subject: leer from DOTE for Warsaw NBDIP applicaon

Hi Brian­

I have met with Sheila and Rachel and have encouraged them to think big for Warsaw. I advised them on their estimates and believe that if they could garner someseed money, we can work together to develop a plan for Warsaw Avenue that would focus on improved ped safety and quality of life. I would assign a Project Managerfrom DOTE who would work with the EPHID to refine concepts and develop a fundable project, assuming that DOTE would capture outside money to construct.

The DOTE supports their efforts and looks forward to working with them in the future. If you have any questions, please call.

Joe Vogel, PE

Director, Dept of Trans. and Eng.

City of Cincinnati

513-352-3303

Joe.vogel@cincinnati­oh.gov

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