2. The Heart of the Neighborhood
What it looks like currently:
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3. The Heart of the
Neighborhood
Madisonville’s Neighborhood Business District radiates from the
intersection of Madison Rd. and Whetsel Ave. We will orient new
development along Whetsel as it is more pedestrian friendly.
Madison Rd.
Whetsel Ave.
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4. The Heart of the Neighborhood
The Future of Madisonville
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6. What Has Madisonville Done So Far?
• Form Based Code Designation – to control
the size, shape and character of our
business district, with flexible usage
• Community Entertainment District
Designation – to draw more restaurants,
clubs, bars and entertainment oriented
businesses
• Quality of Life Plan – hundreds of citizens
gathered over several meetings to map
Madisonville’s future
• Tax Increment Financing District – Tax
dollars captured from Red Bank to
neighborhood center set aside for business
district development
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7. Form Based Code
• Zoning based on building size, shape and location
• Must conform to the character of the neighborhood
• Only a few uses are not allowed
• Variances are allowed with community permission
• Applies to the business district and surrounding
area only
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8. Community Entertainment District
• Up to 15 new
liquor licenses
• Licenses are
much cheaper
than market rate
• Each license
approved by the
community
• For food-service
establishments
only
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9. Quality of Life Plan
• Dozens of meetings, hundreds of
residents and business owners
• Mapping the future of our
community
• We asked, ‘who do we want to be
in a few years’
• Our plan will become the only
citizen-created neighborhood plan
to be adopted by the City Planning
Department.
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10. Tax Increment Finance District
Our TIF district includes almost all of Red Bank
Road and goes well into our neighborhood
business district, capturing tax dollars from
new developments on Red Bank
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11. The Future of our Business District:
• Large mixed-use
development on all four
corners of Madison &
Whetsel
• Strip mall to be demolished
and replaced with mixed-
use development
• Bank Building at 5900
Madison to be rehabbed for
apartments and restaurant
• Streetscape created for half
a dozen blocks with traffic
calming features and bike
lanes
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12. The Future of our Business District:
We control our future:
MCURC and the City of
Cincinnati currently
control all of the real
estate in green.
More than 6 acres in the
heart of Madisonville’s
business district are
controlled by MCURC …
with more on the way.
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13. Housing Development by MCURC
Rehabs – MCURC has done and will continue to
redo houses for sale to owner occupants
New Construction – Working with the Hamilton
County Land Bank, we will build new infill homes
across the neighborhood
Aging in Place – We are working with People
Working Cooperatively and the Lutheran
Benevolent Society to keep seniors in their homes
by providing repairs.
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14. Housing Numbers
• Home Values up 9% since last year
• Owner Occupancy Rate – 45%
• Single Family Detached – 64%
Median Sales Price (last 3 months):
• $74,500 / $90,500 not counting
distressed listings
• 6 homes above $150,000
• 3 homes above $200,000
Complete Days on Market:
• 57% sell in 30 days
• 81% sell in 60 days
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15. Crime & Safety
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Part 1 Crime Per Capita (2014):
Safest Neighborhoods:
1. Mt. Lookout
2. Hyde Park
6. Pleasant Ridge
7. Madisonville
12. Oakley
35. Columbia Tusculum
37. Mt. Adams
Statistics provided by the Cincinnati Police and the US Census Bureau.
Part 1 crimes include homicide,
rape, robbery, aggravated
assault, burglary, larceny, auto
theft and arson.
16. Demographics
• Diversity – We boast about a 50/50 mix and
have been rated one of the city’s most
successfully integrated neighborhoods
• Income – Madisonville’s income rate is above
average for Cincinnati
• Education – Our educational attainment is
higher, too
• Households Married with Children – 50%
• White Collar Professionals – 64%
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17. Education
John P. Parker, our public elementary and
magnet school, has improved their rating to
Effective. That means that residents are no
longer eligible for vouchers since our
community school is too good. They have a
Latin magnet program and are a feeder
school for Walnut Hills.
Located in Madisonville:
John P. Parker Elementary (public), Schroeder
High School (public), Cincinnati College
Preparatory Academy (charter), STEAM
Academy (charter), the Lighthouse School
(CPS sponsored charter) and the Seven Hills
School (private).
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18. Green Space & Recreation
• The Little Duck Creek Trail is
an urban nature trail for hikers
and mountain bikers
• Murray Road Bike Trail
• Bramble Park has a
playground and ball fields
• Rec Center has ball fields, a
pool (with kayak lessons) a full
sized gym and tennis courts
• Desmond Park is a best kept
secret
• Lots of greenspace and trees
• You’d be amazed at how quiet
our community is
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20. Madisonville
the soul of the city
Matt Strauss
Real Estate Development & Marketing Manager
Madisonville Community Urban Redevelopment
Corporation
matt@mcurc.org
271-2495
www.mcurc.org
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Editor's Notes
Introduce yourself
We had an awful lot of fun here for the Jazz & BBQ Festival, Music on Madison and Madisonville Winterfest. But everyone knows that this isn’t what you want in the center of your neighborhood. And when people from other neighborhoods drive through, this is what they see. This is their impression of the neighborhood. As you know, big things are about to happen here.
Over the Summer we asked for developers to send in their qualifications to redevelop this area. (Not the one highlighted on this map.) They did and a committee of residents, business people and other experts has chosen a team to redevelop the blocks at Madison & Whetsel. That team has sent their selection to the City and we’re waiting on approval from the Mayor and City Manager before we’re able to announce the selection.
This is a rough idea of what we thought it might look like when we started this process. It will probably look very different from this, but the drawing gives people a frame of mind for where we’re going here in Madisonville.
This gives people a really good idea of how our streets will feel a few years from now. Residents and business people asked for pedestrian friendly development and we think this is what it will look like.
This is a quick overview of the four big things that this community has put in place to promote smart growth in Madisonville. This slide makes for a good summary.
FBC was put in place so that any new developments fit into the future that we have imagined. The main purpose of it is to have appropriate buildings in appropriate places – no more single story strip malls at the most important intersection in town. It will also help us to increase population here and expand living options.
A couple of years ago we created the CED to attract more restaurants, bars and clubs so that Madisonville folks had some options to go out on a date in their own community. It allows establishments to get liquor licenses for a lot less money, making it more attractive for them to move here. At the same time, we have to approve the license so that we don’t get the bad actors here.
We took the time to find out what we really want, and then we wrote it down. We own the real estate, now let’s make it happen.
Explain the TIF.
Paraphrase the slide
This is what makes the development aspect of this so exciting – Madisonville gets to shape our future.
What have we done so far or are in the process of doing.
Housing values are going up, homes are selling for ABOVE asking price, listings move quickly and Madisonville is now a seller’s market. We have a great range of styles, prices, sizes, ages. Our housing stock caters to everyone. And it’s beautiful, too.
Explain method and that it is 50 neighborhoods. Less raw crime than Oakley. Part 1 crimes only. Talk about recent efforts.
We are a stable, diverse, well educated, middle class community. Go through this slide.
We have a variety of options for schools – public, private and charter. Our public elementary – JP Parker – has small classes and are going from good to better in the ratings. They are a magnet school for their Latin program, making them a feeder for Walnut Hills, which is one of the top public schools in the nation.
There are a variety of options for outdoor and indoor recreation in the neighborhood. And everyone is amazed at how quiet our streets are.
This has been a slideshow about stats, information, demographics, plans and a lot of other “things” that you can tell people about Madisonville. What’s more difficult to get across to them is our best asset – the people. That one we just have to show to them. Tell people all about the great things that we just went over and get them into the community. Then they’ll see what a great group of people we have living and working here.