Cincinnati City Council

The Cincinnati Planning Commission approved a temporary additional review process. City Council will vote next week.

The move comes as the Mill Creek Valley Conservancy District prepares to take responsibility of major flood control infrastructure.

Council will continue discussion over the next few weeks on spending what's left in the carryover process, although the new policy limits how it can be spent.

A new Office of Strategic Growth would try to streamline economic development, and each neighborhood could get a new comprehensive plan every 10 years.

Council members questioned the cost-effectiveness of the nearly $400,000 spent on a curfew center where only four teens were sent.

Cincinnati City Council member Meeka Owens announced she will challenge incumbent Hamilton County Commissioner Stephanie Summerow Dumas in the May primary.

A City Council committee is expected to go into executive session Monday to begin a performance review of Cincinnati City Manager Sheryl Long.

The city has seen a 39.6% reduction in carbon emissions since 2006, on track to meet the goal of 50% reduction by 2030 and full carbon neutrality by 2050.

Mayor Aftab Pureval says he and Kearney have been on different sides of some issues, but that’s not why he suggested changing Council’s representative on Planning Commission.

City Council passed a resolution strongly condemning the recent killing of Renee Macklin Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.