PC to consider St. Aloysius office development

The City Planning Commission will consider today a concept plan from the St. Aloysius Orphan Society of Cincinnati (St. Aloysius) to develop 16 acres of its Bond Hill property.

St. Aloysius is hoping for a zoning change from RM-2.0 Residential Multi-Family to PD Planned Development District, which will allow them to subdivide the land into six parcels for a social services campus containing the following:

* Along Reading Road, the current school and chapel would be joined by a new school and two surface parking lots, which could accommodate 200 cars

* At Reading Road and Joseph Avenue, a two-story, 15,000-square-foot medical office building

* A three-story, 20,000-square-foot office building with 120 parking spaces

* A 15,000-square-foot office building with 119 parking spaces

* A two-story, 10,000-square-foot office building with 35 parking spaces

* More parking around the current group homes

The project, at Reading Road and the Norwood Lateral, would be completed over two phases.

St. Aloysius hopes that developing its property can help bring in enough revenue to further their mission as a non-profit social service agency for children and their families.

The development plan was first presented to the Bond Hill community in January. After hearing concerns about the traffic that this development might generate, representatives of St. Aloysius paid for a traffic study, which it presented in August and then again in September. Community fears about traffic were still not entirely alleviated.

However, if the rezoning is not allowed, it is entirely possible that the land could be sold off to developers. Current zoning would allow for up to 348 residential units.

City Council approval of the concept plan and the creation of a PD would put the project under the scrutiny of the City Planning Commission.

City staff has recommended PC approval.

St. Aloysius Orphanage has been at its Bond Hill site since 1861.

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