Several Cincinnati City Council members sent a clear message on Monday: They’re tired of dealing with Columbia Parkway landslides.

It’s not yet clear what the fix will be, but councilman Christopher Smitherman introduced a motion that would declare the landslides an emergency, freeing up the city to use “whatever capital dollars (are) necessary” to stabilize the hill.

Smitherman introduced the motion during a Law and Public Safety committee meeting. The retaining wall along the parkway is failing, he said, and properties at the top of the hill are at risk.

He said his goal is to give the city administration a green light to start weighing potential solutions.

“We want them to fix this, and we want them to make it a priority,” he said. “People’s homes might slide down the hill. … There are people that are in homes, they’re very, very worried. If I lived there, I would be worried.”

'Like someone put a bomb in your yard':Landslides in Greater Cincinnati are bad. And they'll probably get worse.

Help us report the story:Have you experienced a landslide in Greater Cincinnati?

Landslides have long been a plague on the Cincinnati region, but this has been an especially rough year. And, scientists say the situation will likely worsen with global warming.

Columbia Parkway, in particular, has been regularly shut down by slides. One potential fix is to build a new retaining wall along the parkway, but a recent city memo shows that could cost close to $10 million.

It is one of the city's busier roads. A 2015 traffic count from the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments shows one portion of the parkway getting nearly 35,000 vehicles a day. Another stretch, farther east of Downtown, shows just over 26,000 vehicles a day.

Councilman Jeff Pastor said he’s not only concerned for homeowners but for drivers.

“It’s almost daily or weekly, every time there’s a severe weather event, that we have a mudslide now,” he said. “My concern is for the travelers… Someone is driving, and here comes a mudslide. I think we have to get this wall fixed.”

City officials will give an update on the Columbia Parkway landslide situation on Tuesday during the Major Projects & Smart Government committee meeting. That will take place at 1 p.m. in council chambers.

“I think it is absolutely critical that we get this thing fixed as soon as humanly possible,” said Councilman Greg Landsman, who chairs that committee and requested the update.

Columbia Parkway is “a critical artery that continues to be undermined by these landslides,” Landsman said. “It’s very much reflective of where we are in terms of our disinvestment in critical infrastructure.”