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2025 Neighborhood Meetups
The Botany Hills Neighborhood Association monthly meetups:
Q1: Jan 27th, Feb 10th, Mar 10th
Q2: Apr 14th, May 12th, Jun 9th
Q3: Jul 14th, Aug 11th, Sep 8th
Q4: Oct 6th, Nov 10th, Dec 8th
Unless otherwise noted, our 6pm meetup is at the corner Holiday Inn.
For additional info, please send an email to botanyhillsna@gmail.com
2025 Neighborhood Events
Great American Cleanup!
Join us on Saturday April 26th,
from 9am - 12pm, at
937 Spring Street, West Covington
to clean up the Chicken Steps!
This old neighborhood staircase connects John and Spring Streets, and is widely used by residents.
Brought to us by Keep Covington Beautiful.
GACU_Covington.mp4
We’ll have on hand some shovels, yard waste bags, pickers and gloves, but feel free to bring your favorite leaf cleanup tools!
As a sweet thank you, we'll have Donuts and T-shirts for volunteers as long as supplies last.
Or, take this time to spruce up your own front yard.
Let’s clean up and show off the best of Botany Hills— one block at a time!
This summer, the Botany Hills Neighborhood Association will beautify "The Chicken Steps" that connect John Street to Spring Street. We will have more details soon on the planning of the mural, and engaging our neighborhood artists of all ages to paint the steps with local artist Dai Williams, aka s0ftgh0st.
Below are some photos from her previous work. Watch this space for more event details!
The Results Are In!
Download our BHNA March Survey Results PDF file and learn about top issues and community ideas.
Didn't catch the March 2025 survey, but still want to provide feedback?
Please send us an email with your ideas to:
botanyhillsna@gmail.com
We look forward to hearing from you!
Riverfront Commons Trail Detour
KYTC officials requested public feedback on the proposed rerouting of the Riverfront Commons hike and bike trail during construction of the Brent Spence Bridge Corridor project. Below please find our 18-page PDF that outlines our recommendations that we shared to KYTC and Covington city commissioners.
To learn details of the proposed rerouting and to see maps, click on this link: https://bit.ly/3Q7JpKa
ORIGINAL PRESS RELEASE: https://www.covingtonky.gov/news/2024/10/25/city-helps-fund-7-neighborhood-projects
City helps fund 7 neighborhood projects
October 25 | 2024
COVINGTON, Ky. – Seven neighborhood groups received funding from the City of Covington for improvements ranging from beautification projects to irrigation, the sixth round of a program that has now funneled nearly $200,000 to community groups to help them implement their ideas.
Funding for the newest projects – totaling $24,955 – was approved by the Covington Board of Commissioners recently as part of the Neighborhood Grant Program.
Individual grants ranged from $1,455 to $5,000 and were awarded to neighborhood associations and groups of residents for projects that improve their surroundings. (Businesses, individuals, schools, and religious organizations are not eligible.)
“This program improves the look and energy of Covington’s neighborhoods and also helps build partnerships – not only between the City and its residents but also within the communities themselves, since groups come together to think up ideas and then implement them,” said Brandon Holmes, the City’s Director of Neighborhood Services. “This is the sixth round of funding, and you can see the impact of previous rounds throughout Covington.”
The recipients:
Eastside+: $3,000 – Neighborhood beautification, with a focus on involving teens.
ROMA – Residents of Mainstrasse Association: $2,500 – MainStrasse Village beautification.
Neighbors of Latonia: $4,500 – Beautification of the City’s 30th and Decoursey Park.
Latonia Uptown & Latonia Elementary Green: $5,000 – Replacement of the hoop house.
Friends of Peaselburg: $1,455 – Neighborhood beautification.
Historic Licking Riverside Civic Association: $5,000 – Irrigation of the City’s George Rogers Clark Park.
Botany Hills Neighborhood Group: $3,500 – “Chicken Steps” beautification.
The funding recommendations were made to the Commission by a 13-member committee that included officials from the City’s Neighborhood Services, Public Works, and Administration Departments, as well as from the non-profit Center for Great Neighborhoods of Covington. The Center helped the City administer the grant program and worked with neighborhood groups to fine-tune their applications.
The committee worked to stretch funding across as many projects as possible, Holmes said. Three other applicants weren’t funded but two of those will receive labor help from City workers.
A total of 44 projects and $200K in grant awards since 2019.
More about the Neighborhood Grant Program can be found on the City’s Neighborhood Services Department webpage.
Since the program was created in 2019, the City has awarded nearly $200,000 for 44 projects in nearly every neighborhood of the City. A map of the previous five rounds can be seen at CovData: Grants helped 14 neighborhoods webpage.
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CITY IMPROVEMENTS
The Botany Hills Neighborhood has received visionary contributions that forever changed our community.
1370 Parkway Avenue
View from Prisoners Lake Drive
ORIGINAL PRESS RELEASE: https://www.covingtonky.gov/news/2016/03/18/gus-sheehan-park-reopens-after-200-000-upgrade
Gus Sheehan Park Reopens After $200,000 Upgrade
March 18 | 2016
COVINGTON, Ky. – The City of Covington unveiled $200,000 in improvements to the reopened Senator Gus Sheehan, Jr. Park Friday afternoon.
Improvements include new playground equipment, a new picnic shelter and picnic tables, a new basketball court and a redesigned parking lot.
Located at the northeastern edge of Devou Park, Sheehan Park serves the Botany Hills neighborhood. The City wanted to create new recreational opportunities for the neighborhood after the park closed four years ago.
“It has taken some time but Gus Sheehan Park looks amazing thanks to the feedback we received from the community and the guidance of the Devou Properties Board and the Devou Park Advisory Council,” Mayor Sherry Carran said.
“Input from Botany Hill residents led to the park’s current design layout and the addition of top-notch amenities. Especially helpful was a sketch drawn by Otto Reser in March 2013. Otto is now on the seventh grade basketball team at St. Agnes and will no doubt put the basketball court to good use.”
The upgrades were generously funded by the Board of Devou Properties, Inc., which oversees the operation and management of Drees Pavilion, and recommended to the Covington Board of Commission by the Devou Park Advisory Committee, chaired by Bob Rothert.
“The Drees Pavilion at Devou Memorial Overlook is proud to have helped fund another park improvement. From the shelter to the basketball court, kids and families will love the revamped park,” Board President Barbara Drees Jones said.
The City was forced to close the park in 2012 due to safety concerns. The infrastructure of the 30-year-old pool was severely deteriorated and past the point of repair. The pool was filled in with concrete and is now the new basketball court.
The City and its contractor, Logan Creek, worked with Sanitation District No. 1 to address the infrastructure issues by improving drainage and grading at the park, which sits in a downhill area below Parkway Avenue.
“Because this site is in a small valley, there have always been drainage issues that create a lot of challenges for infrastructure projects,” said Jessica Moss, the City’s project manager. “We’ve made a lot of site modifications in an effort to reduce those issues in the future while still providing recreational amenities for the neighborhood.”
The park is named in honor of West Covington native Senator Gus Sheehan, Jr. A longtime lawyer and newspaper publisher, Sheehan served parts of four decades in the Kentucky legislature, representing Kenton County.
“I believe Gus Sheehan would be very proud to see the park today and to know that it will be enjoyed by the children and families of the neighborhood he called home,” Carran said.
Several members of the Sheehan family were present to honor Senator Sheehan, who passed away in October 2000, including his son, retired Kenton County Circuit Court Judge Martin J. Sheehan, and his daughter, Patricia Sheehan, who spoke on behalf of the family at the ribbon cutting ceremony.
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