Monday is the last chance for residents to sell Cincinnati officials on what to build over Fort Washington Way.

        At a 5 p.m. meeting in the Hueneseld Tower Room at the Main Library, a city design team will unveil some of the ideas for the decks planned to fit atop the interstate like a three-block lid.

        “Our consultants are bringing in a model and about a half-dozen schemes,” said Cincinnati Park Board Planner David Prather.

        The ideas were generated at a public hearing in January, attended by 62 people.

        “There were ideas for memorials, a visitors center, green space and recreation uses,” he said.

        The city has put aside about $12.8 million for landscaping and improvements above the decks, which will form a bridge over the interstate between 2nd and 3rd streets.

        When finished, the decks will cost taxpayers an estimated $63 million, including $10 million already paid for the support structures, $40 million for the decks, and $12.8 for improvements.

        The decks, described as plazas, will provide a park-like link from downtown into the central-riverfront project known as The Banks.

        Mr. Prather said planners will recommend ideas from the public sessions to the park board, which will vote on them this spring.

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