A 750-unit apartment project proposed next to Scioto Audubon Metro Park is among development plans that have Metro Parks officials worried.
Development pressures are not just on Columbus neighborhoods, but also on Metro Parks, and officials there are trying to figure how to deal with them.
Proposed entry roads from West Whittier Street to the apartment site skirt the new dog park Metro Parks plans to open soon at the south end of Scioto Audubon. Developers are talking with Metro Parks officials about an easement through park property for an entry road to the proposed development."That park cannot accommodate 1.5 million additional vehicles a year," he said. About 220,000 vehicles enter the park annually now, he said.
The developer has already changed plans a couple of times since 2019. The first proposal called for offices, apartments and retail and high-rises as tall as 30 stories. A later proposalMetro Parks is already limiting access to Scioto Audubon Metro Park for two weeks beginning Feb. 28 as the Ohio Department of Transportation begins work on the next phase of the Interstates70/71 reconstruction Downtown.from the north part of the park to the south end near Whittier because of that project.
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