Board of Trustees - Regular Meeting

Go ahead and welcome to the Union Township Board of Trustees meeting. Hey, listen. Hey, hey, welcome. Welcome everyone. Let's go and get started. Thank you all for being here. And uh if you could please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. All right. Everyone welcome tonight. And Mr. Campbell, let the record reflect that all three trustees are present. Is there any correspondence tonight?

Yes, sir. I have quite a few. Uh the first one is a a letter from Tate Township. Says, "Dear Union Township Trustees, on behalf of Tate Township, we want to express our sincere gratitude for your generous donation of the 2016 Ford Explorer. Your support strengthens our ability to serve our community effectively, and this vehicle will play a meaningful role in helping us carry out our mission. Your commitment to supporting local organizations makes a real difference. The Ford Explorer will enhance our operational capabilities, improve our responsiveness, and allow us to better needs meet the needs of those who rely on services. Thank you again. as signed by John Wilson, chairman of the trustee board, and Christine Steinley and Russell Durban, trustee. Also have uh I have three donations that were made to the township. The first one's for $1,500 from Snap Snapdragon Cincinnati. Um $1,500 donation for the gym. I have uh from Dennis Tol, the uh donated $350 for rescue squad help for the fire department amount of $350. And then the last one's for $75 to the Union Township Fire Department and uh it is from Mount Mariah UMC women's organization. Um, lastly, I have a uh liquor permit. It's a new permit. It's for Tobala, T O B A L A Cantina and Grill LLC at 440 Gleni Williamsville Road, Union Township, 45245.

Um, there are no u no issues with it. The police department has no objections. Mr. right is ensured that it is properly zoned. That concludes the correspondence. Well done, Mr. Campbell. The uh appreciate the letter from Tate. Glad we can help them and also those donations. Very kind. Uh all right, special proclamations and presentations. Obviously, you can see our special guest here. And so, I'd like to welcome the National Therapy Animal Day for Union Township, Miss Karen Sprdlin. Come on up, please. You know, all of you, please come on up. up here. Yeah, please. Yeah, right up here, please. Yeah. Thank you for having us.

Of course. Of course. Of course. Yeah. Please step on up there to the mic. Yeah. Right up there. Yeah. There you go.

Well, you you have the mic, miss. The floor is yours, please. On April the 30th, Pet Partners International has decided that we are all across the United States and internationally going to recognize therapy animal day on April the 30th. And the governor on down has made this proclamation and the Union Township trustees were good enough to make the proclamation for our our community. So, I appreciate it. This is Nancy with Minnie. Tracy with Cassie, Maren with And this is Lauren with Dixie.

Dixie, and this is Baxter. Fantastic. The uh Well, ladies, thank you all for being here. And is there anything any specific stories you'd like to share with, you know, pertains to therapy dolls or some kind of testimony? We don't keep you here all night. We got so many stories. Yeah. So, the stories we like the best is when someone says, "Back saved my life." So, depending on what it is, we've all heard it and we are so grateful that we can be part of it. Fantastic. We're just we're just the transportation. They're the ones that do it. Fair enough. Yeah. The uh they bring a lot of joy and a lot of smiles all around.

Of course, Mr. Ricker, you have anything? Uh, no. I think it's uh I think it's great. Love what you're doing. Mr. Low, anything? No, I think this is wonderful and just look forward to uh making the motion to uh to to pass this resolution to make it animal therapy day.

You got it. Thank you. Well, ladies, give me one minute before you step off. I have this proclamation to give you. I I'll read it very quickly. And uh gentlemen, I'll entertain a motion uh to approve resolution 2026-26. It's a resolution declaring April 30th, 2026 as National Therapy Animal Day right here in Union Township, Ohio. Uh the board of trustees here in Claremont County, we met today. And whereas there are thousands of pet partners, therapy animals team servicing communities across the United States, whereas pet partners has designated April 30th as National Animal Day. And uh whereas these exceptional therapy animals who partner with Unique Companions bring comfort, healing to those in need. And uh gentlemen, is there a motion? So moved. Second. Mr. Camp roll call. Mr. Becker, yes. Mr. Lo,

yes. Mr. Dills, yes. Motion carries.

All right. Thanks. We'll come on down here. Have a picture with you. Excuse me. Everybody Thank you so much.

I I think we should adopt a township dog. I would I know what we already have a few weeks. I'll ask Bill. Yes.

All right. Next up, we have for our Claremont County Senior Levy Services, Bill Das, our executive director. And coincidentally, Bill and I, are you you were in the the same class. Where were we? The Lee Claremont class. Yeah. Was it two years ago? You're year ago. I'm a horrible judge. I know. I know. Few years ago. So, uh, the floor is yours, sir. Go ahead. Thank you. Uh, thank you for the opportunity to to speak this evening. Um, a little upset you made me follow all those

right those dogs. was hard hard to follow. But um again, my name is Bill Dehass. I'm the chief executive officer for Claremont Senior Services. And I I come here this evening to with with two goals in mind. Uh I want to talk to you about the services that we offer Claremont County. Um and also um just make mention of the se the importance of the senior services levy that's going to be on the May 5th primary ballot. Um, so, uh, Claremont Senior Services, we are contracted with the county to provide senior services that are funded by the senior services levy. Um, we provide services to individuals 60 years of age and older residing here in Claremont County. And if you are not aware, uh, 25% of Claremont Countyy's total population is made up of individuals 60 and older. We just uh collaborated with Miami University's Scripts Gerontology Center over the summer uh to do a demographic study here in Claremont County and um through that study we found that we're about to see a large increase in our 85 and older population which is our baby boomer generation. Uh we're expected to see I think it's a 32 or 33% increase between the years of 2030 and 2040. So pretty substantial. Um, last year Claremont Senior Services provided uh direct care to over 4,000 individuals. That doesn't include the impact that we made on families, caregivers in the communities, but but 4,000 older adults uh directly receive service. And I'm going to go through uh the services that we provide so that um should you have constituents or residents here in Union Township come to you with concerns or questions, uh you know what we offer and who to have them reach out to. And I'm really grateful for the turnout we have here this evening. so that everyone in the room can do the same. So last year we provided over 40,000 rides through our medical transportation program. Uh we covered about 700,000 miles bringing folks to and from medical appointments, dialysis treatment, grocery stores, um

personal errands, things along those lines. We provided um approximately 70,000 home delivered meals. Uh these are nutritious meals provided to individuals that are no longer able to safely prepare a meal themselves. uh do not have the support in the household for that um or simply just um um cannot safely um obtain the items needed to prepare a meal. Um our home care program which consists of uh light housekeeping, personal care services, and and home respit service for 24-hour caregivers. We provided over 35,000 hours uh to individuals. Uh we have an adult daycare program in Battavia, right next to the YMCA. This is a center for individuals that have been diagnosed with some form of um dementia, Alzheimer's, have physical limitations because of stroke, Parkinson's, uh but need 24-hour care. So, again, this is a service uh to give 24-hour caregivers a break so that they can re-energize and be the best caregiver for that individual they can be. Uh we found over the years uh that being a stressed caregiver not only impacts the caregiver themselves, but the individuals that they're caring for. So, this is an incredibly important program. Um we provide transportation to and from the center. Uh we provide meals throughout the day and uh programming uh there at the center that's geared towards um at least limiting uh the continued decline. Uh so so various programming around cognitive skills, motor skills, things along those those lines. We also have uh two lifelong learning centers, what most folks know as senior centers. Uh we have one right here in Union Township that we are very thankful to have right next door. U and we have one at Miami Township at the Civic Center there. And last year there were over 22,000 visits to those centers. Um it's an opportunity for older adults to come and socialize with their peers. Um participate in in various forms of programming that we have to offer there. Um of course we have um folks that still love to come out and play bingo, play cards. Uh but we have a lot of health

and wellness programs, exercise programs, um art programs, you name it, we have it. And uh we're we're um fortunate to be able to offer that to the to the community here in Union Township and across Claremont County. Uh another program that we have um is our adult protective services program. Uh that is a statemandated program uh that's usually housed under the department of job and family services but about 20 years ago um the executive director of job and family services and my predecessor came together and decided to put that under Claremont senior services for the simple fact that um when we get referrals of abuse, neglect, exploitation, we have all the resources under one roof uh to be able to limit whatever that might be uh to get them the care that they need. And last year we had over 700 referrals of abuse, neglect, and exploitation here in Claremont County. Um, again, it is a statemandated program. We get some state funding for that, but it is only a fraction of of what's needed to investigate that many referrals on a year on an annual basis. Um, we have a home repair program as well. Uh, that program, the only piece of it that is funded by our levy is the one staff member that coordinates all the home repair. Um everything else we go out um in search of grants to provide for materials, labor costs. Uh but we're able to go out and uh build build wheelchair ramps, install grab bars, handrails. Uh we do some light plumbing and electrical work for for individuals. Um and so so those are the programs we have. And what I forgot to mention at the very beginning, you know, the mission of Claremont Senior Services and and the really the mission of the senior services levy uh is to keep older adults in their homes, living in their communities safely, independently, and with the dignity that they deserve. So everything that I just mentioned to you uh is with the intention of keeping those individuals in their homes and out of nursing facilities or other um other situations. So that's everything we have

to offer. Um, as I mentioned, the senior services levy is going to be on the May 5th primary ballot. Uh, it is a renewal. Uh, we have not asked for an increase in 20 years. Uh, so no tax rate does not change, no new taxes there. Um, for an individual homeowner, um, it is $26 a year for a um assessed value of $100,000. Uh, that breaks down to 217 a month or seven cents a day. Um, so that funding um or that that property tax levy uh that I just mentioned funds everything that I just talked about. Um, and it is the return on investment is incredible for Claremont County. And one other thing I'd like to say um is that more than 90 cents of every levy dollar goes right back out into the community to provide direct service to individuals. Um, so we do not have, you know, bloated salaries within our agency. We've got about 100 people uh that that work for Claremont Senior Services. And as I said, more than 90 cents goes right back out to provide all those things that I just mentioned. So, um what I ask is that when everyone goes out on May 5th to complete their civic duty, that they keep in mind all the services that I just talked about um and and how impactful they are here in Claremont County. They really are vital to the community and we've been um gracious stewards of taxpayer dollars um over the many decades that we've been in existence and we're thankful for that support that we've been given.

Thank you, Bill. Yeah, Mr. Becker, anything? Uh no, to really just a comment uh you know, senior services has been um you know, great organization and served a lot of people. I've never heard any complaints. I know a lot of people rely on and your organization and I think y'all do great work and uh I don't know that you ever had a levy failed and I don't anticipate it'll fail this time either at least I hope not. I hope not but I appreciate the comments. That's all chairman Mr. Luke. No good appreciate all the information that you've provided. Thank you.

Yeah, Bill. I know it's not easy speaking in front of a crowd. So well done. Good job. Good job presenting and uh um I I could tell your heart and passion where it's at. Uh my mother's used the bus services many time where my sister and I couldn't take her to her. So uh you know full full support on this. You're more than welcome to to say that I I personally fully all three of us said we support it. So uh absolutely. I think I don't think you're having a problem with it passing but appreciate what what everything do very much. Appreciate that. I've been with the agency for 20 years and we have a everyone has a passion for what we do. Well said. So thank you all for your time. Thanks Bill. Appreciate your time.

Thank you. All right, ne next item on the agenda. This is fun. We get to recognize a couple of our firefighters. Uh, first one I'll call up is Adam Drestler. Sir, come on up. And uh, Chief Clemens, I I will actually throw it over to you just for a moment if that's all right. If you want to introduce and

Yeah, absolutely. So, uh, 25 years at the Union Township Fire Department for Captain Drestler. uh huge night for him as you'll see his name here uh later on the agenda. So I won't get too deep into uh my comments in this section and I'll I'll hold most of those for for here in a minute. But uh 25 years is is an incredibly long time and he's been a great asset to our department. Fantastic. The uh uh Mr. Becker, anything for Mr. Russell? Uh I just always like to ask this question. You you've been around for a long time. You've seen a lot. What stories do you have to tell? Well, we have a bunch. We have We got a new one the other day, too. We'll talk later. Well, clear. Clearly. No, I can't do it.

Clearly, we got time, so go ahead. We don't have time. All right. I'll look forward to hearing that. That's all I have. Chairman, Mr. Luke, sir. Uh, Adam, you know how much we value you and your service here and your family service to the community. 25 years, like the chief said, great long time.

Yep. and um we want to see you continue to remain and and and stay with us for several more years. Um I don't even want to be able to count to them. So, um, above and beyond that, you're you're engaged and involved in the community and, um, you know, that's just to me it's it's always deeply touching how well, uh, you and all the members truly get engaged and involved in the community because it's just got hearts of public service and that's what I think everyone gets into it to begin with. So, I see that and acknowledge it. Thank you. Thank you,

Adam. I'll uh I'll save my comments for here in a little bit on the agenda. But I Hey, I might be a little bit biased, but my goodness, that's a good looking haircut, brother. I love it. Good. I like that. The uh to 25 years, thank you, sir, very much. So, congratulations. A little bit of that. What's that? 25 years. It caused a little It does. The uh So, if you could uh any Oh, by the way, is your family here doing just fine? They're sprinkled everywhere. Are they Go point them up. Can you try to uh They're They can raise their hand. Everybody can raise their hand. Fantastic. Fantastic. We we got a award for you and if you could, if it's okay, maybe step off right at this side and we'll bring you right back. That's all right.

The uh our next one is uh a firefighter uh Chris Gilpin. Sir, come on up.

How you doing, Chris? Good. How are you, sir? Good to see you. Good to see you. Uh Mr. Becker, any words, sir? Uh, no. I again just uh this is your opportunity to tell stories. If you want to address the board directly, here we are. I probably don't have anything uh rated for general audience. Apologies. I messed up. Chief, I'm sorry. Please can you introduce firefighters? My bad. Thank you. You're welcome.

As he was walking, I think he was waiting for some music or something to play in there. Uh so Captain Gilpin uh has been with us for 25 years as well. Um I think when you there's there's not a single person in our department that loves being a firefighter more than more than Kathy Gilpin. He I think he eats, sleeps, and breathes uh firefighting. Um he is

and DMS debatable, but um you know he he's he's stepped up over the years. He's, you know, he's he knows that there's always something to learn in the fire service. U constantly learning and, uh, the best part is he's passing that knowledge on. He's got, um, a lot of new personnel on his crew and shift and station. Um, and he is he is the mentor passing that on to make sure the next generation is prepared uh, as he is. That's fantastic. Thank you, Chief, very much. Thank you. And, uh, Mr. Becker, anything else to add, sir? Apologies? No, just uh thank you for your years of service in Union Township. Hope you have many more. Thank you. Sorry for disrupting the flow there. Uh Mr.

Take me by surprise a little bit. It's okay. Again, um you guys all

just looking at the dates the dates there 430 430 425 25 years. Um that's got to be well uh for the two of you there coming in same time and you guys seen a lot together. Um it's really again rec incredible when you look back over 25 years and the amount frequency of calls and the growth and the volume that you've seen I'm sure throughout the township. Um tell me I should have asked earlier uh as well but we're we are supporting an initiative for trying to secure some funding for uh training tower and so I heard about the training and you're always pushing that edge. Uh you got anything you would share about the advantage or benefit that would be to the community?

Oh, it'd be huge. Um especially with all the new apartment buildings that are four-story apartment buildings. Um because these guys are going to have to they're going to have tough stretches to get to fires in those things. We can't simulate it in a firehouse. Um we have to be able to go vertical. They're going to have to be vertical stretch masters for getting hose there, ground ladders, all that kind of stuff. We just can't we can't simulate it anywhere else. Yeah. So as realistic of a facility as we can possibly get will prepare them for the future.

Well, thank you. uh you know and I I think about that that this is all the downstream flow of um you know sometimes when when you again have a heart of a public servant and and there to serve the community. community gives you different uh resources or um uh opportunities and uh here we are with with this one like you said now now we've got to be reaching higher and setting the bar a little bit different direction for the fire department. We appreciate Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Logan. Christian, you got your family here solo tonight?

Yeah. Okay. Appreciate you very much. And uh uh 25 years says that was right before 911. That's how long you've been here. So, thank you very much for your service. Yeah, we're honored and blessed to have you on the team. And I would actually I I agree what Chief said. It's fantastic that you've been here. Your senior leadership, you can mentor the younger guys coming in. So, appreciate you very much, sir. Yeah. And we got this award for you. We'll come on down with both of you. That's all right. Yeah. Thanks, gentlemen. Appreciate you. at all. See, it's not

Hi, Bobby. One, two, three. Hi Bobby.

Okay. Then Adam, I think you can stay right up here, sir. You are all right, Chief. If I won't mess this one up, I I'll go and throw the floor over you if that's okay.

Okay, perfect. Um, so I mean he's already up here, but before before we talk about him, I want to just briefly touch on the position itself uh that we're recommending here tonight. Uh, last year we we really looked at at our organization as a whole and identified we need to do some restructuring uh in the administration level. And this is this is just part of that process. And this position that we're presenting tonight is a district chief position. It's allowing a little bit better span of control in our organization. Um it's a it's a 40-hour position. There's we're basically changing ranks uh minimizing a lieutenant and creating this position. So that's kind of the backstory of of of where this is. Uh so it's no additional personnel. It's just a change in in ranking. Uh, and with that being said, I I do want to talk about Captain Drestler, uh, and recommend him for consideration for the promotion to the rank of district chief. Uh, as we, as we recently just found out, Captain Dresser was hired full-time by Union Township in April of 2001, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 2006, where he held that rank up until 2025, where he became a captain. He has spent the last 25 years protecting and serving this community with honesty, compassion, and integrity, which are the core values of our department. Adam has filled many roles over his career with heavy involvement in apparatus and equipment purchasing and maintenance, training, grant writing, and heavy involvement with our accreditation process. He is a fire and EMS instructor, a live fire instructor, and a member of our honor guard. He has complet completed his associates degree fire officer one and two with plans to continue his educational and professional development. His positive attitude and vision for this role make him an excellent fit for the position. And on behalf of assistant chiefs Mark Fe and Matt Terrell were super excited

for him to join our command staff. I would recommend the promotion of Adam Dresser to the rank of district chief at a rate of pay of $15,000 effective April 27th at 2026 at 8 a.m. Thank you, Chief. The uh Mr. Becker, anything? Yeah, just congratulations on your uh skill set being recognized along with your experience and the promotion being well earned. Appreciate it, Mr. Luke. Sir, yeah, congratulations. Um you're you also give back time volunteering in the community, right? Yes, sir. There are a few organizations or anything that you would uh one of the biggest one is um where we do some heavy involvement in Sleeping Heavenly Peace.

Yeah, there are several firefighters that are involved in that or which is a great organization. So, can you share 15 seconds? We got a lot of people here right now that Yeah. So, we uh it's an organization that provides beds uh for kids that don't have beds in in our county. Uh we build the beds from uh scratch. We take them out, we take them on site and and put them in and get the kids off the floors. It's really incredible. It's a great organization. Yeah. I just wanted to give you that opportunity to share a little bit about that with with the people in the room and watching online. So just again another testament to your character and who you are and who you serve with as well. Thank you

Adam. Good people uh long overdue, much deserved and uh you are a fantastic leader. So this position is much deserved, sir. So uh gentlemen, uh I will entertain a motion for personal actions for the to promote Captain Adam Drestle to position of district tree effective April 27, 2026 at annual pay rate of 105 10500 per year. So moved. Second. Any more discussion? Mr. Mr. Campbell, roll call. Mr. Becker, yes. Mr. Log, yes. Mr. Dills, yes. Motion carries. Congratulations,

Congrats. Absolutely.

Congratulations, you Y Adam, hold on one second, sir. That's like Two assists. Okay,

there's extra seats. You want to give a chance to grab some of these seats? What's your grand for your grandpa? 15 20 seats.

Hey, come on up and fill these seats if you like. That's the problem. Do you want a bunch of comment cards? Anybody else?

Did you all want to come in? Yeah. Grab a seat. Go ahead. And then as you all are taking filling in the seats. Uh so next up will be our public discussion. If anybody I apologize I did not announce this at the beginning of the meeting. If you'd like to speak during public discussion there's some comment cards back there and uh we we'll grab them and take them up uh if there's anyone else. Now let me also explain the difference because we have a couple zoning cases tonight. These are separate. Right now is public comments. You got five minutes. You can talk about anything you want, whatever is on your mind. And then if you want you could talk about the zoning case. However, you're probably going to have to come back up again because when we do the zoning cases, uh, and that's when we're going to have you come back up and specifically talk about that zoning case, which, um, is 2-26-Z and 2-3-Z. So, um, and at this time, and then Miss R, would you mind checking back there and see if there's any more? All right. So, uh, I will go ahead and call up our first one. So, so with that being said, if you like to speak during public comments, it's about anything that's on your mind. Now would be your time and then uh you got five minutes to say whatever you'd like. So, the first one uh I got here uh Jason Gordon. Sir, come on up. Is he here? Mr. Gordon, there he is. Okay. Yeah. Mr. Gord, come on up. Thank you, sir.

Sir, the floor is yours, please. Oh, could you just state your name and address for the record?

Excuse me. Uh, as you know, over a decade ago, the property next to mine was zoned and still is a state residential. Uh, it was quiet, rural, and consistent with the character of the surrounding area. That changed when the property was purchased by an entity owned by Doug Evans and began to be used for industrial and commercial operations. Businesses moved in, structures were built under the pretense of agricultural use, and then something entirely different. At that point, I began to contact the township. for years that what was happening. I asked for inspections. I asked for enforcement of the zoning resolution. What I received and said was delay, dismissal, and inaction. No inspections, no enforcement, and no action. These violations continued year after year. Only after all of that, I was forced to file suit in an attempt to correct the issues at hand. Initially, the township and its zoning administrator, Cory Wright, were named in that suit. The township appealed and successfully argued that it had no legal obligation to enforce the zoning resolution and on that basis was dismissed from the case. And even while that litigation was pending and the violations were still ongoing, this board chose to move forward with reszoning that same property to plan development contingent on conditions to be met within six months. Trusty Becker, you were the only one who voted no. Trusty Dills and Trusty Lo, you both voted yes. You made that decision after years of warnings, after a lawsuit that had

already been filed and with clear evidence that the property was not being used in compliance with the zoning resolution and against the unanimous res u recommendation of your own zoning board. Those conditions you proposed were never met and the property is still not in compliance. As a result, the property remained a state residential exactly as it had been all along. The court then stepped in and did what the township would not. The court found the use to be illegal. The court issued a permanent injunction. The court imposed penalties. Everything I had been saying for years was proven to be true. And the court did not just find zoning violations. It found that Mr. Evans and his entities had engaged in fraudulent conduct in the way the property was represented and used. This is not an isolated situation. Mr. Evans has previously been convicted in federal court for fraud related to a minority contracting scheme. That history makes this even more concerning. When issues like this are brought to the township, enforcement and oversight are not optional. Instead, what happened here is that clear violations were allowed to continue, warnings were ignored, and action was delayed until a court was forced to intervene. Now, we are seeing the consequences. Since January, additional properties have been acquired by Doug Evans and his entities and completely cleared of trees. Natural buffers are gone and now residents in a neighboring subdivision are dealing with the same impacts my family has endured for years, including noise, wind exposure, and the real risk of erosion, runoff damage, and long-term impact to neighboring properties. It's also important to recogn recognize that

these impacts have already resulted in measurable harm. Multiple neighboring property owners, including myself, successfully sought significant documented reductions in assessed property value from the county auditor due to the impact of these activities. That context matters because the same pattern of activity is now expanding into new areas and affecting additional residents. This is not new. This is not unexpected. This is the direct result of a township that failed to enforce its own zoning resolution. And while I want to address something else that should concern every resident here, when this began, my primary contact was the township zoning administrator, Corey Wright. For years, I was told there was no evidence of violations. No inspections were performed. No enforcement actions were taken. Today, Corey Wright is the township administrator. So, the same individual who failed to enforce the zoning resolution when this started is now responsible for administering this township and was part of the administration that successfully argued it had no legal obligation to enforce the zoning resolution. That is not a change in direction. That is a continuation of the same failed enforcement oversight.

Yeah, Tom. Union Township zoning resolution is not optional. It exists to protect residents, property values, and the character of this community. When it is not enforced, the consequences do not stay contained. Mr. Just do me a favor. Just 15 seconds. Wrap it up. Sure. You're five minutes.

That is exactly what's happening now. And I'm almost there. This is no longer just about my property. This is about a repeated pattern of non-inforcement that has allowed unlawful development to take hold and expand. Residents should not have to file lawsuits to get their government to do its job. And they should not have to wonder whether these rules apply equally or only when convenient. Because if the zoning resolution is only enforced when it is convenient, then it is not really a rule at all. You were warned. You had the opportunity to act and now other families are living with consequences of those decisions. Mr. Gordon, are you close to wrapping up? I am close. You're at your five minutes and you're now you're probably at six. I'm just Please be Mike, please be respectful. That's all I'm saying. Okay.

Can may I finish? Like can can you like you're kind of at a minimum the township to take immediate steps to enforce the zoning resolution, investigate the c the current land disturbances and ensure that surrounding properties are protected from further harm. The question is now simple. Are you going to continue allowing this pattern to repeat? Are you finally going to enforce the law and uphold your responsibilities to the residents of this township? Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Mr. Go. Appreciate you. and and come on up. And and what we'll also do is um uh I'm going to I'll throw it over to Mr. Wright after if anyone else wants to speak on on about that same land as well. Uh so but I'll let everyone speak first about this and then I'm going to throw it over to Mr. Wright as well to to comment on it. Uh, so yeah, the gentleman come up if you want to have your card. Okay. Okay. Yeah, come on up. Yeah, perfect. Yeah. Thank you, sir. Okay. Yeah. The floor is yours, sir. Just state your name and address for the record.

Sure. Hi, my name is Justin Acriman. I live at 581 Pepper Ridge Road. Yeah.

Uh, first off, I'd like to thank the gentleman who came before talked about senior services. My mother-in-law, you know, she benefits from that greatly. it's helped to all of us. So, I would encourage everybody. It's so little what they're asking for and it does so much when you need it. So, please consider that. Um, the second thing I would like to address is the speeding on Beachwood Road. In the last month, I've had to pull out two teenagers driving down Beachwood right for the Ben for the big cow farm. Um, I've asked before, you know, I would even volunteer. I live right on the corner of Pepper Ridge. I would uh driveway. One end comes out on Beachwood, one end comes out on Pepper Ridge. I'll even I'll give them water, Sprite, snacks, anything they want. Just something needs to be done about the speeding on that road. Somebody's going to get killed before long. It's I mean, you sit out there at night, you hear cars going 60, 70 miles per hour. And I know we're at the far corner of Union Township, but it it's just a death trap waiting to happen. And last, uh, talk about, you know, Doug Evans, the whole windstorm. I don't I don't act know that I know everything about it, but I know where there's smoke there's fire. For 30 years, he's been a shady individual getting away with god knows what through his businesses, everything else. So, the question I would ask everybody was, did he violate something doing what he did or did the county give him the okay when they shouldn't have? Because something is not right. We've been there eight years. Never been anything like that. And then as soon as he clears out all that property, here we all are.

So, I'll give the rest of my time up to somebody else. I just ask everybody to think about it. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. And then uh Chief, will you make a note of Beachwood? Thank you. Noted. Thank you. Uh let's see here. Okay, we'll just keep the same topic. Uh I got uh Bradford Grant, sir. Come on up. Yeah, I'm not sure. That's fine. That's fine. I assume the trustees. That's fine. Yeah, welcome to this. Thank you.

Do I give one? That's fine. Yeah. Call her. All right. The floor is yours, sir. And then do I give one to the

I'm waiting for her to get the presentation up. Did you use Claude? Well, in the meantime, I'll say who I am. I'm Bradford Lee Grant. Um, sorry. Did you use Claude on this? Did I use what? Claude. I I Great work. Then

I I've worked I've done I should tell you who I am, I suppose. My name is Bradford Lee Grant and I have a background in uh urban rural fringe planning. Um, specifically, I also have backgrounds in natural resources, so Silva culture and dendrology. Looks like we're having some problems with the slideshow. So, I'll get ahead and get started with some points that I'm uh intending to discuss here. Um I was hoping that it'd be up there because there's some really key points that I like to point out about this. Hit the click click click share off and then click it back on. That's always my first step. Turn it off but on again. Oh, there we go. Thank you. A

we had it and we lost it. Coming to theaters soon. It came out. Is it? Do you want to restart it? Sorry, Brettford. Every time I try to make it full screen. Don't do full screen. Yeah. Do you want me to wait and you can have somebody else speak while she's works on it? Is that easier for you guys? Is that better for you, Lisa? Okay. All right. I appreciate that, Brad. Yeah. I'll definitely call you back as soon as the um All right. Give me one moment here.

Uh this community. Okay. I don't see I don't see anyone else specifically talking about the land behind Pepper Ridge. Uh I got a Scott, a Kyla, a Rich, and a Carolyn. Is there anyone of you four that was specifically talking about Okay, please come on up. Yeah. Say it again. I regeneration. Sure. Sure. Time out. Time. Hold up. Hold up. What's your first and last name, sir? John. John. Okay. Well, please come up to the podium, sir. John. Oh, I see. I apologize. You're right. All right. John, please come on up. Just state your name and address for the record, sir.

My name is John Harbison. I'm glad to be here. Gentlemen, ladies, I am and my wife is from Pepper Ridge subdivision. We live at 537 Oregano Drive. We have been there for 39 years. Our home was built by a gentleman called Irv Barber. He developed all of Pepper Ridge 40 years ago. His wife named all of the roads in Pepper Ridge from spices, hence oregano drive, nutmeg, null, pepper ridge road. How Sesame Street got in there? I don't know, maybe she liked Big Bird. Beautiful place to live. We moved there 39 years ago. Purchased a 1acre lot. Irv told me what it was going to be like. It's loaded with trees. Beautiful scenery, large spaces between homes, and icing on the cake, there's a creek behind the house. We are talking about lot 101 on the west side of Oregano Drive. At that time, it went down to a dead-end culde-sac before a private drive was built going even further down Organo Drive. Fast forwarding 39 years put us in March of this year to a new situation which has occurred and is affecting probably most everybody in this room. We have witnessed by way of Doug Evans again the total destruction of all of the land growth and tree growth behind Pepper Ridge subdivision. There is and when we moved in I asked

Ger Barber about this. I said I like where we live. I want to purchase this lot. What's going to be behind me? All we could see is trees. Trees are a valuable asset to everybody. He said, "Don't worry about it. There can never be anything built there because there is only 50 yards of flat space behind Pepper Ridge." And then it drops off drastically to the valley bottom below. I said, "Great. You've sold me. Nothing's going to be back there like our existing subdivision. It's beautiful. We're moving in." He built us the home. Everything's been honky dory for 39 years. Now we're in March of this year. We've heard nothing but bulldozers plowing whatever down in the valley. The gravel pit noise is always been there. But in the wintertime is the only time you really hear it because there's so much woods at play that it blocks by way of the tree canopies all the noise coming from down in the valley. Now, middle of March, a gigantic earthmoving machine found its way to the top of the ridge right behind Pepper Ridge. And my wife and I looked out the window and see this uh this gigantic earthmoving machine grabbing the trunks of 100 foot trees, shaking them back and forth, and jerking them out of the ground just like you would a weed being pulled from a garden. I looked at it and said, "Well, it's finally happened. I guess the bulldozers have created a path through the woods up to the top to let this piece of machinery come up there. And now we're going to have a cell tower behind Pepper Ridge." Well, that would have been good except the machine kept going and it worked its way all the way across the backside of Pepper Ridge, jerking every

tree out. Now, we have a fantastic view of the valley from our property. We also have a lot more noise because there's no trees. So, I took it upon myself to go down to the creek below, which I haven't been in in years, and walked the creek on a Sunday thinking nobody would be there to see what was going on. I did this climbing down into the creek or major, I guess you could say, falling down into the creek because I'm 82 years old and I'm not sure-footed like I used to be. The creek was beautiful. Stones, ponds of water, trees hanging over the creek, just like it had been when my boys used to be at home and hike that creek all the way down to Round Bottom Road 20 years ago. Nothing had changed behind our home. As I walked down the creek over these large stones and the little waterfalls going over these stones and creating a serene environment, I noticed it got brighter two houses down. When I got to the old fence line, which is still there, which was property owned by a farmer, I was astounded at what I saw. I stood at the fence line in the creek, watched the water come down around my feet and vanish underground, went away. Now there's not a lot of water flowing during the wintertime. I'm thinking to myself, if we have this little bit of water flowing now and it's vanishing underground going Lord knows where. I guess it finds its way down into the valley. What's going to happen in the summertime when a gigantic rainstorm comes? Everybody's yard is like concrete. All the water runs into the creek. And now behind our house, it is

one foot deep, five feet wide, thousands of gallons a minute flowing down the creek. I'll tell you what's going to happen, and you don't need a degree from Georgia Tech to understand this. The creek isn't there anymore. There are no trees. There are no bushes. There are no stones. It's all dirt. It has been filled in totally. It's three times wider than it used to be. It has a base of dirt, mud, and leftover tree debris which has been torn down. I'll tell you exactly what's going to happen. All of these thousands of gallons of water are going to meet this turf or this dirt dam until it backs up the creek and it overflows and it carries millions of pounds of dirt down into the valley until it eats away and finds its way down deep enough to be where the creek used to be over the rocks. All of this dirt and junk is going to all flow down into the valley. There's no way it can't. So, I'm thinking to myself, "Oh, this will be a great problem for somebody else down in the valley." I don't know where it goes. I think when my boys used to walk that way, it went down to Round Bottom Road, if I'm not mistaken.

Caramel. Mount Carmel Road. Okay. So, it went to Mount Carmel Road. I'm standing there looking at this and I might as well have been standing in the middle of a desert, 15 ft up on both sides, creek bed. Six months. Okay. You You have to I'll wrap it up. I had a lot to say. It's okay. But I I'll wrap it up. This was one of my main concerns. This creek and all these trees. Every bit of growth is gone.

So I wondered what it looks like out of the creek. So I slowly climbed up to the top behind Pepper Ridge. There's nothing there. There is a dirt view going from the back of Pepper Ridge all the way down the valley to the gravel pits. Nothing whatsoever. It's all gone. I'm thinking, what idiot gave this guy a permit to do this?

So, Doug Evans has done this. He's taken it upon himself. And I know this for a fact because I went down there on Sunday. There was one lone tractor going around in the dirt. And guess who was driving the tractor? It was Doug Evans. I thought he'd come up and say, "Get off the property." No, he came up and said, "Hop in. Are you from Pepper Ridge?" I said, "Yes." I to just I'm trying to be nice. We have a fiveminute cut off. You're like six and a half. Just Just I I totally get it, folks. I totally get it. But it's a fiveminute rule that's in place. I have to be fair amongst everyone. Just All I'm asking is just maybe 15 second wrap-ups. I'll make it real quick. Five minutes. Who cares?

Yeah. Doug Evans told me point blank after I asked him what he was going to do with the property, why he tore all the trees out, why all the roots were ripped out, what was going to hold the hill together? He said, "Oh, we're going to seed it. It'll be all green in a week, and we're going to have cattle and sheep on it." I said, "Cattle and sheep? Are you kidding me?" So, he let me out where I was. I said, "Thank you." It was cordial. I'll have to say that. Thank you for the information. I'll watch out for the cattle and the sheep. Maybe he'll turn one of his illegal barns into a uh bunk house and we'll have some cowboys riding around on horses looping up the cows singing whoopde Wyoming whatever at night.

And then with the sheep, we'll have to have some little kid out there with a stick at night to keep the sheep shave safe away from the coyotes. I got you. I got you. Thank you, sir. It's you're like eight minutes now. I think you're good. I just Mr. Right. Will you will you give like a one minute notice?

Okay. Uh is there is there anyone else uh specifically uh well actually anyone else for public comments at all? Please come on up. Lisa, did you get that to work yet or no? I think the images are too large. Okay, that's right. Okay. Uh Tim, please state your name and address for the record, sir. Oh, you got it. Well, don't talk too loud. Don't touch it. Well, he's already up. I'll let Tim finish and then we'll go. And by the way, Miss Mr. Wright's going to let you know when you have one minute left. That's right. Okay. But the four state your name and address for the record, sir. Is that one minute? There we go.

Yeah, you have five minutes. Oh, yes. Tim Curry, 533 Old State Route 74. Um, my question goes back to Doug Evans's original problem with the agricultural buildings that he built. If they were illegally built with the under the agricultural exemption, why are we not seeing them torn down because they're illegal structures? Are there any building permits on them? Is there any zoning that would allow them to be You can answer, but it's going to take part of your time. So, do you want to wait till the end?

No, I'm asking questions and I'll let Cory, please. Okay. So, the lawsuit uh regarding uh zoning non-compliance was settled. Uh he has 180 days to get building permits. There's been zoning certificates issued. They are in compliance with the resolution that was adopted. Um Mark McCormack went up there. I went up there, walked the whole thing. They have 180 days from like January to get building certificates. To get building certificates for everyone from the county. Well, from the county. Yes. And if they don't get building certificates, then we're back to square zero again. So it continues. Okay.

But 180 days. So you want you see there's consequences of the whole scenario going and have we ever finished with the EPA and all of and all of his problems with the EPA. Have those ever been finalized and the landfills and I don't I don't know the answer to that question. They don't really talk to us. In fact, I can tell you that there was an incent incinerator that uh uh transfer station added that the EPA approved without any knowledge to the township that we actually just shut down on the other side of the township. So, they don't talk to us. I'm sorry. I shouldn't laugh, but I mean, it's okay. Yeah.

Yeah. I I'm a state certified inspector in electrical work too. So I understand very well what happens when when might meets the the common citizen. So, but I I think you guys have an opportunity here with this one to get ahead of it because he is required to have had a grubbing and clearing permit from Claremont County from Claremont County and a soil erosion permit which is designed by an soil engineer and that needs to be maintained throughout the entire grass growing season.

WMSC for the county portion. I'm not sure about Hamilton County's regulations, but I believe their regulations are more stringent even than Claremont counties are. I believe so, too. So, yeah, you're you're just all you're doing is pushing the cow down the road instead of doing something about it. As far as what? Enforcement. Have you verified with the county that he's got the permits? I think we actually we we have been in correspondence. We've talked I think Mr. Grant actually has filed complaints. I don't know where they are. I know we had complaints at Terrace Ridge and yeah so far no peritting for for what it's worth. Uh now because we do have other public comments. If you can pause this time.

Yeah, I'll pause it. Uh I'm going to let Mr. Wright talk in depth about an update and then uh and then and then I I'm going to personally give my comments as well. I'll give the two trustes opportunity as well. But but for what it's worth. So So I'm going to wait for all the Evans folks to talk and I'm going to absorb it all. I'm taking notes and then I promise you We we'll talk as soon as everyone's done. We have Mr. Grant. Okay. Would you want me? Gotcha. We'll let this gentleman I think. Okay. All right. No problem. Yes. Come on up. Yeah. Apologize. It's a little small. I think your images are too large. But is that work for you? Is that okay?

Uh that wasn't the intent, but I I'll be able to describe it in in full and I can all most of these images are well all of them are in your memorandum, so it will help you contextualize it as well. Um, so my name is Bradford Grant again and uh right here it's I'm going to help describe this a little bit. So right here is just the uh geological bedrock bedrock map of Ohio and uh specifically right here you're going to have two specific orivvician period substrates that is an okay designation or cope and then Miami town shale. Those two specific designations are going to give you well here we go. Let's see if the slide works. This is the most important part. All right. Yeah, those two two specific uh designations give you a very big chance for landslide. In fact, when you look at it from a topological perspective, it's the most expensive to remediate in the United States. It competes with San Francisco and costs to remediate. Um this is the slope at the midpoint of the primary s uh source of the grubbing process. It's a 29.3%. Most counties designate that at a 20%. In this county, you guys put that under FA management, but it is should be noted that this is in the even in the verb, it specifically says that this is a critical slope stability concern. And that is how you would read this if a geologist would come to it as well. So at the midpoint uh following that same topological, we see a 45.9% slope at a 10 uh foot run. And then onto the next slide, there's a 23 23.7% slope on the second parcel. And then at the 10 foot distance at the steepest point, you have a 44.4% slope. All of those exceed what an expert would say and myself would even say with soil scienc's background is a stable ground for this. So you're going to see massive sloped. The biggest factor I guess I should say is that you're going to see toe slope. And if you don't understand that, basically instead of like a slide, you're going to see at the bottom the toe starts sliding out. And that's why when you go on like uh 50 or you know uh uh Union Parkway and you're coming around the Ohio River, there's this big retaining walls and

then just trees that look unckempt. That's because of that this particular type of orivvician period substrate. It's called the Cincinnati Arch if you remember fourth grade life sciences. Okay, next slide. Um these are the particular uh non-ex uh exhaustive list of unpermitted heavy development activities that I have reported fully in in at this point. um they've gone to a point where they've met uh nothing in relation to sediment control and that is really the biggest concern here because at that point you're getting to a point of potential public safety emergency. This is not something I'm trying to say to be alarmist. I'm trying to inform you as a soil scientist background that this is should be taken very seriously. WMSC has come out and they have filed their specific designations already that this is this site on the largest scrubbing site is already dedicated as DB in violation. So it's already been noted this compliance has already been met from the WMSC side of things. Um moving on to our next side of here's just the April 9th. You can see the grubbing process. I don't have a oblique image that will give you the entirety of the process but that's at the point of start. The main process happened between the 19th through 22nd. Um, and that is the slope that you can see. Now, what they've done is grading, grubbing, filling, excavation, storage of heavy machinery, and then they followed that with soil pulverization using a soil pulverizer that smooths the land. When you smooth the land and you have no topographical shape anymore, the only thing you have left is this shape and then that huge ravine that you can see there. Which brings me to the primary reason that the neighbors are concerned is topological funneling. Um, if you just Oh, we almost made it. Um, well, I'll just keep going through this and maybe you guys can see this on your slides as well. Um so topological funneling is the one of the major concerns for all the neighbors at this point because uh the topological funnel that happens is where if you think about a piece of water, a pipe of water when you go to a smaller pipe, you have high you have a change in pressure that increases velocity. That's the same thing that's happening here. This is the

only break in that that uh hillside and Mr. Evans has cleared all the trees below in the river valley. So you have this big basin of in of space and stored wind and sound, etc. And now all that funnels through this particular property in a long straight line that comes with no uh setbacks, no diffusion whatsoever directly into the Pepperage community. I've tried to warn neighbors the night before this happened on and this is the key point that I want to note to you guys. Page 20 of the memorandum, you'll see the particular piece of evidence that shows the top topology that goes up the hillside here. And those arrows that are drawn there show the topological movement. if you were to follow it from like sound, wind, things that are you can't intangibles, right? So then if you move to your next page, this is the actual new grubbing and then they've done grubbing on previous sites. The previous sites have a a setback like a a buffer, but this doesn't have anything and it's a steeper slope. Next slide or next page. Um you'll see that there is those same arrows now overlaid. And then if you move to your next page, which is the we'll just move two pages ahead to the final one. The morning after this process happened about 8 hours you can see I've made a mapping of all of the uprooted and down trees that all maintain the exact same toological direction and all maintain the same fall. So that is causing an impact to every single person in this neighborhood. That means that there's already potential direct damages that have occurred within 8 hours of this process being done. This all happened over a weekend which could suggest trying to evade a permanent injunction against the the person who is holding the property. Okay. Um, I want to point out another thing that points out topological funneling. If you move to your page,

yeah, sorry, this is taking longer because I don't have the slides. I apologize. Just just just uh just try to, you know, I'm trying to pace it quick.

Um, the other thing that's really important here is the per site sound intensity analysis that I did. Um, I have approximately 99 dB samples from three major point sites that are marked uh marked on their coordinates here. And those particular ones are from top of hill coordinates at the the southwest south southeast side of the pro the major property and then right along the midpoint of one of the properties near the Duke easement which is a very important factor because this falls right along a Duke easement. they've been accessing it and more importantly Duke Energy has been out there and has ma noted that there is potential for a major power line to collapse in that because of soil erosion soil collapse but the biggest factor for us in the neighborhood is that there is a calculated uh off of DBC which is the one that would be relevant to um you know like um heavy machinery instead of DBA which would be like someone talking. DBC specifically has an intensity ratio of the average across all sites of 14.26x. Remember DB is a logarithmic scale, a 10x logarithmic scale, which means there's 132 or 1,326% average increase in volume. And you that proves this topological funneling is continuing. All of the heavy machinery coming from the Evans site across the way and all the way up is funneling through the neighborhood. You can hear it all the way at the end and very loud across these point sites. The one last point about that is there is an industrial park.

Okay. There's an industrial park that's been built there that was noted as illegal an illegal industrial park and a judicial warrant or judicial not warrant apolog judicial ruling. Um and when they're doing specific site samples there I did a a cross analysis of when they're doing like processing right against that and that's creating refraction. So, it's like an amphitheater now because those building walls are permeating that sound right back into the neighborhood. I saw a plus 436% uh increase in those sounds when they were up against that. So, those barns need to be reconsidered for removal because of the impact where this doesn't meet between residential and industrial. This does not meet with your land use practices on that side. Uh let me make sure I didn't miss anything specific. Um oh, and then I have a number of uh requests for the council and I've put them in there. Um, tomorrow I'll be speaking to the Ohio Attorneys General's office and giving them my information. Uh, Ohio EPA has been informed, but I'll be passing all that information on to them with the data sets. Um, and that's where we're at so far.

Thank you, sir. Well, well done. Thank you.

Okay. Uh, I got a Scott Conga. Kangro. Kangro. Kangro. Oh. Oh, I see. Kangro. Scott, please state your name and address for the record. And you got five minutes, sir. Please. Thank you. My name is Scott Kangro. CN GR. I reside at uh 40 4280 uh Main uh 45245. Sir,

uh good evening. Uh, the reason I come here tonight is to talk to you about the STRS, uh, short-term rentals, Airbnbs. Um, I know that it's not on the I know that it's not on the docket, but, uh, it's it's something that's important. I think that most of the people in the township don't don't even know that these exist. Um, it's they do they do damage to the community and they do damage to the ability of new home buyers to be able to buy a property. They're going to be able to outbid them. They have more money and you're not going to be able to bring in new blood into the township. I'd rather have these people that have lived here. I mean, I've been here for I'll be coming up on 25 years. I'm a newbie compared to most of these people that have talked. But the community, it it's it's its own it's its own entity and being able to solve problems and stuff. Neighbors look out after one another. These don't do that. They don't belong here. They're they're a business. And and I just I just don't agree with them. And I think that we need to head them off. It it's it's you know, it's and other other townships have had them and then gotten rid of them or they've put them in multifamily. But don't don't destroy our don't destroy our uh neighborhoods. We really we like our neighbors and we want to keep it that way.

Thank you, Scott. And I believe uh Mr. R, are we voting on that next month? We tabled it. We tabled it. We're still researching the issues and the uh various comments that were brought before the board at the last meeting. It's been continued in process. We will give ample ample notice. If not next month, but perhaps the following month, we'll be making a resolution for that one, but I hear you loud and clear, Scott. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Thank you, sir. Appreciate that. All right. I got a Kyla Hucker. Hu cer. Perfect. Miss Kyler, the floor is yours. Just state your name and address for the record, please.

Kyla Hucker, 1320 Meeks Drive. Um, two things. I remember they addressed those uh short-term rentals back I think in the summer because I had shared about what's happening in Colorado and Hawaii and homelessness due to that. Um I'm here because of Shaunie Ridge the uh golf coursehomes split between Union. I talked to Corey a few weeks ago. I reached out to Mark. What a loss. I really enjoyed him. I hate that he he left. He just seemed like a real upstanding type of man. Um, I called and told him so. But my point is, stealing from us.

We got flooded. Uh, we didn't get flooded in our home, but there was the old oipo track, train track that's been abandoned that runs through Claremont County. And we've lived at our home since November 29th of 91. And when we had that uh rain, part of the answer was well that's a you know powerful rain but in 30 how long we've been married 35 years we've had lots of heavy rains and there was uh water up to the end of Minkx Drive. Uh when Gerwin Gershwin whatever his name is came with the Shauny Station plan I brought up about potential flooding from that pipe. I reached out to Corey. He recommended someone. And I've been in touch with the engineers. A Mr. Sperry came out, but there of course was no water 3 days later. So I just wanted on record that I'm not supposed to be flooded or damaged based on someone with bigger pockets and you know that needs to be looked at and I should be protected as well as anyone else.

Yeah, I didn't know that. Appreciate you bringing that up, Mr. On top of that. Sure. Yes. Uh in fact, the same day we talked I actually copied I believe I copied you on an email. Yep. Okay. To Greg Smory with WMSC uh reported it for her uh because of an active permit, active development permit on that to have them look at that and to see whether you know usually when you have that clearing activity you can get stuff gets in the pipe. I don't know how big that pipe is. You probably 24 in I believe. I think they say standard now it's 36. Yeah. So it's just an old like cross tile from the traction lines. It's a good cast iron pipe. Yeah, if it's cast iron that's really old. So,

uh the suspicion is there might have something could have gotten stuck in there cost backup. But again, I think that's something that WMSC again, we don't have our own drainage regulations. We talked about that. Um but Mr. did actually did he come out? He came out a couple days later or somebody I spoke to a Sperry. I spoke I emailed someone but Mr. Sperry actually came Oh, so that was Greg Smormore is the guy that oversees all of that. I think I spoke with him, but he sent someone else. Okay. In hisstead. So, we'll just continue to keep an eye on it and I'll see if they have if they have a disposition on that. I can I just want it out there. I've never been afraid to live in my home.

I've never been afraid of strangers, water. But to look out my window and like what am you? You're looking through a dirty screen and to go outside and realize that's water after 30some years. And I lived on the other side of this property. So for 62 years I have been on either side of that farm. Never had a water problem.

And but I know Mr. Tom Nickel owned that property from the time I was born until he passed. And then it went in Charles Ricky's executive ship. But Mr. Nickel always took care of that. Once somebody buys, they sell, they're on to their next project. And they talk about O and H because I mentioned it here at the meeting. O HOA will take care of that. Well, HOAs are being taken to court and they're failing in certain parts of the country. So who will be in charge of that? If HOAs are found unconstitutional, whatever, who's going to maintain a pipe? It's not my job to main a pipe that it's not my property, but I should be protected. So, I don't know who writes these HOA laws and if they have someone mowing the grass once a month, what if it rains three weeks in between the two, you know, the mowing sessions? I just want to be protected. I think I'm do that. I think I'm owed that. I think my family's owed that. I think anybody in the township has owned that. Owed that. not owed like you owe me, but that's just something that you believe you have. I don't live in a flood plane, so I shouldn't be having water. It flooded my neighbor, my my property, but not my home. Okay.

And that shouldn't happen. So, I agree. Thank you, Miss Carl. Appreciate you. Sure. So, they can't do anything to um they can't do anything. Basically, Ohio drainage law is you have to accept the water that comes across your property and you have to release it. You can't do anything to like impede it to where it backs up on people. Sure.

And you can't do anything that discharges. Sorry, let me repeat this. Uh that discharges it at a basically a greater rate than pre-develop pre-development. Those that's the extent of my knowledge only from when I worked in the subdivision department 20 something years ago. But, you know, I'll follow up with Greg tomorrow and just find out what the disposition on that is, whether they have to remove that pipe, whether they have to improve it. I don't know. I we don't really see those construction plans. So, appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. Uh back up, but it needs to be maintained debris.

But even when this rubbing or whatever that is, there's always going to be people's going to be They have to maintain it. All right. Is there a Miss Carolyn Lieutensely? Is that correct? L A U T N S L O. All for zoning. Roger that. You got it. Okay. Um, no problem. I got you. Uh, all right. And then, uh, Ben IS just Oh, Ben just left. Okay. We don't need that one. He's on a record. Okay, last one. Uh oh. Oh, Rich. Rich, Glisten. Rich, how are you? Good. How are you?

Good, good, good. You know, uh I knew a guy one time who used to say that God only made a few perfect heads and the rest of them he put hair on. I'm clearly I'm not one of them. So, yeah, sir. Just state your name and address for the record.

Yep. Uh Rich Glliston, 816 Massachusetts Drive, um 45245, right over behind the chief there at station 51. Um, I think I've had some kind of interaction or worked with all of you except for the one I probably shouldn't have, which is Chief Ree, thankfully. Um, so I have no interactions with the police department. Um, which is good. Um, I kind of wanted to come here tonight just to kind of let you guys know how the community feels about some of these issues. I didn't have anything anywhere near what these people have had, so mine kind of seems a little bit minor now. But um again with single family homes um those are the the things that we would like to see in the community. Maybe not large gigantic projects but um single family homes, single deeds, owner occupied. Uh no more apartment buildings. Uh apartment buildings apartment buildings are um taking over our schools. They're overcrowding our schools. Um, I know some people that work in the school district and the bus routing has had to be redone so that the kids who are picked up at certain locations are picked up last and dropped off first. Those buses have been named Conair kind of as a joke within the community uh because of the reference to the movie or the buses full of all those people who are causing all kinds of problems. Um, so that's that's one concern. Um, groups of kids are running through our uh stores, through jungle gyms and other locations, tearing stuff up, causing disturbances, walking down the middle of streets, uh, riding their scooters, bikes, and stuff through the medians in between the roundabouts, like large groups, 10, 12, 15 kids at a time. Um, stealing things from people's porches. Um, walking down streets that don't have sidewalks across Eastgate

Boulevard. Um, I can only imagine what's going to happen when the bridge opens up at Glenie Wamsville. I'm sure there's not going to be any pedest there's not supposed to be any pedestrian traffic there, but I can guarantee you we're going to have pedestrian traffic there. Um, again, coming from the same parts of the neighborhood where um there are other issues. Um, and then the last one is the Airbnb thing. Uh, the the short-term rentals. Uh just this past Sunday, there's one in at the mouth of my neighborhood where Lexington Green meets Glenn Estie Wamsville and several times throughout the day, there were multiple cars filling the uh the the driveway and then also in both directions on the street right at the corner where residents couldn't get out and residents couldn't get in. uh kids walking in large groups across the street to the park for some to sort of um event they were holding. People dancing on top of cars, the smell of marijuana throughout the park uh throughout the neighborhood.

Cars. I'm sorry. Is it on top of cars? Yes. Okay.

Large groups of people. And I'm I'm talking like hundred or more people um having some kind of an event that they were broadcasting on social media. Um, I just in my neighborhood has only got 60 houses. It's a dead end. One in, one out, and there's two Airbnbs already. There are more properties that are available for sale right now that I hope don't turn into another Airbnb. And then I have other neighbors that have lived in that that uh subdivision since it was built in 1978, and they they're original owners, and they're not going to be with us for, you know, another 10 years. And I'm I'm worried that my neighbor that lives next door to me that that might turn into an Airbnb. Um I'm I'm kind of a a libertarian. Um I feel like you should be able to do what you want to do with your property until it impedes on me and it's gotten to that point like it's it's causing an issue in the neighborhood. So I would just hope that you guys take those things into consideration when you're making those determinations.

Well said, Rich. Thank you, sir. by by the way by the way uh Richard also serves as a volunteer on our parks board as well and uh we have citizens that volunteer every month they meet and they look at our parks and how can they be better and all that so appreciate your service as well thank you all right besides the zoning cases I have no more cards is there anyone else that would like to speak here come on up sir and then just to give everyone a heads up uh what I'll do is uh After we go through all the departments and right before our zoning cases, which I'm anticipating probably around 8:00, I'm going to call a break. So, you can shut your legs, go to the restroom, five-ish minutes, break, we'll come back. So, but sir, please uh did you fell one of these cars by chance?

No, I did not. That's okay. Uh Mr. Campbell, can you notate his Can you um just state your name clearly and your address clearly so Mr. Campbell can take it on record?

Yes. My name is Rich Grant. I live on Nutmeg null just off Pepper Ridge and my property adjoins the qu the recently grubbed property of of um whatever I don't remember the company's name but it's owned by Doug Doug Evans and so you know we're not trying to be unreasonable here guys just a few requests all right just just a couple how about enforcement of our uh zoning laws and ordinances I I mean, if you could help us with that, that would really help. We're we're trying to involve others, other organizations in that and and your help would be greatly appreciated. Um,

reassessment or a removal of the industrial park in the barns that are where they're so-called barns uh on the property. um re uh reassess the tax base for the lost value that our property uh is experiencing due to the issues we've discussed. And we would ask that if any of these voting if you could recuse yourself as individuals, if you are associated any way with Doug Evans or his accepted campaign donations, whatever, we'd appreciate that, too. Okay. Thank you. There's for what it's worth and I I mean I'll speak on you you three or you two correct me. None of us have taken any contributions from Mr. Evans ever. We haven't. So for what it's worth do I stand corrected?

So and by the way I would agree there was a vote that we took uh it was took any money from Evans? You got to ask them the commissioners. I have no idea. Um I'm we're township. This is Union Township Trustees. The counties are Cler Corpin Dave Painter Bonnie

Bachelor. We can do records requests to find out for you. I mean, but I'm talking about Joe Dills, John Becker, and Michael Oak. We You're asking for a vote tonight or or to address things and we recuse ourselves. There's one vote uh that I felt like I was compromised on. It was a vote for a bar restaurant we're going to put on. I recused myself because I was financially tied with the guy and I didn't vote. So, the one and only time in my five and a half years of five years of being in in office, um I've recused myself once because I was financially tied to him. And so, uh, as far as Doug Evans, us three have not taken a single penny from that man. Um, and that goes on record. So, um, but okay. Is there anyone else that would like to speak and then we're gonna do something a little different tonight? Uh, where I'm going to allow Mr. Wright to talk. I'm going to talk. I'll let these two guys talk as well because clearly you're all here for the Doug Evans property. So, I don't mind if we talk about it. Uh, but also you want to talk as well. Sorry. Go ahead, Mr. Becker. On his comments? Yeah, please go ahead. Sorry.

Well, not specifically on on his comments, but just kind of generally regarding Pepper Ridge. Um, and and I guess more specifically, um, is it the Mr. Mr. Harison? Um, I really relate to you. You know, I I I I bought roughly two acres out in the woods 35 years ago. Kind of fears of that the farm on top of the hill behind my house would someday be who knows what. Fortunately, that's never happened. I've hiked the creek behind my house. Fortunately, I own my creek, but it's behind my house. my property goes beyond it. Um, you know, hiked it up and down and even down to the nature center when I was much younger. Won't do that ever again. Um, and you know, I really feel for y'all. I I really really do. I love living out in the woods and I know you all love it love looking at the woods and and now it's gone and and it sucks. I get it. But I'll tell you this. If there's anything, if there's anything we can do at the township level to stop this, I don't suppose we can restore 100-y old trees, but if there's anything we can do, we will do it. That's all. Chairman,

I agree. The uh is there before we close public comments, is there anyone else that would like to speak about anything? It doesn't have to be Doug Evans. It could be anything. Sir, come on up. Yeah, please. You could that's that's your that's your right. Are you speaking about the zoning case? I have a zoning case, but not at this. Okay. Oh, hey. You can literally talk about anything you want for five minutes. I just know if I could speak twice. Yes, you can. So, just state your name. You probably thought a form, did you? I did. It's for the zoning case, though. Oh, okay. Uh, we'll state your name and address for the record, sir. Tyler Gibbs. I'm actually a Tate Township resident and a business and property owner in Union Township. Um, so I wanted to speak on behalf of Tate Township. Thank you for the vehicle. Um, we don't have all the resources that Union Township has

and um and I I we we appreciate that. and I attend their meetings regularly and do business out there as well. So, we appreciate that. Um, and thank you for you guys. Um, I'm a business owner here. I appreciate the work you guys have put in. Safety services. Um, there's a lot of complaints tonight. Um, I think most people should model their safety services after Union Township. Um, because you hear some complaints about some of the kids and stuff. Well, you saw tonight that they're investing some of their money in in their in their safety services. So, at least they got that going for them. And development is a tough subject and so I don't your guys' position

uh up here, but a lot of the concerns tonight. Um I'm kind of in that business and I feel like they're probably at a county level or a different agency level. So, um John, I think you hit the nail on the head. I think Union Township. I think you guys have the right, you know, right mindset going into these, but there's things you guys can't do and and we understand that as residents, as business owners, and we just appreciate you guys, you know, what you guys do. So, but main reason, thanks from Tate Township for the uh for the vehicle. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it very much. Thank you, sir. All right. Is there anyone else for Yep. Please come. You got to state your name and address for the record, miss. It's okay. Go ahead.

Yes, ma'am. Please go ahead. Sonia Boskin, I was told that we might be discussing a nuisance property next door to me tonight. Yes, actually, but hate to tell you this is kind of close to the last of the agenda, but uh but yes, we Oh, it is. We are going to address that. Uh uh there there's there's a nuisance one on here. I saw right. Uh yes, new 794 Picket Way. Give me a minute. Let me look at I'll tell you one second. But no, no problem. That would be on the next Oh, it's the next one. Well, I'll check with the zoning inspector. Marjgery is a nuisance vehicle action this evening guys next month. That's all we received in the queue. I don't think that's tonight miss. I think that's next month. It's in the but you can contact us tomorrow and we can go through the enforcement timeline on that. Okay. Oh, okay.

Yes, ma'am. All right. So, I'll come and talk to Mike. No, just come to talk to you come talk to me tomorrow. Oh, okay. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Is there anyone else for public comments like to speak their mind? Please. Yes, ma'am. Come on up. I think this might be a record for public comments, by the way. Just state your name and address clearly for for the record because we got to write it down for you. Okay. Please.

Uh my name is Lurel Grant. I live at 4945 Nutmeg Null in the Pepper Ridge subdivision. Uh what I want to tell you are just pretty basic information, but grubbing is where the entire root ball has been removed from the surface. Uh and that root ball is what holds the hillside on. Um there were 25 plus acres of trees removed and on every acre there are 8 to 10,000 trees. So you kind of visualize how much damage was done back there. Um anyway, mine was just kind of basic and I thought it would be nice to give this information to you guys.

Thank you, Miss. Appreciate you very much. Thank you. Thank you. the U. Okay. Is there anyone else for public comments? Uh, yes. Yes, Miss Well, you already had your five minutes, though, Kyla. I don't Okay, come I'm gonna give you like one minute. I'm going to give you like one minute, miss. One minute. Just come on. It's fine. say thank you for the comment after 13 20 minutes drive

that you said that you would do anything you could to protect the situation here and just that whether there's a whole room of people or just one person in an old home that enthusiasm of protecting your residents would be equal regardless of high-end homes, old homes, large subdivisions and independent residences. Agreed. I just I appreciated those comments. Thank you, Mr. Thank you. Okay. Would anyone else like to speak tonight? Yes, ma'am. Come on. You guys come on. Come on up to the mic, please. I don't want to come to the podium. I just I I You don't have a choice. I'm Oh, I'm sorry. Well, please. It's for the residents online and for the record.

Unfort the rules are going to have to be on the record. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I live on that caramel road. Can can you can you state your name and address for the record? Miss Luella Jones 3882 Mount Carmel Road, Cincinnati, and we're 45244. Yes, ma'am.

So, we are technically in Hamilton County. Our property borders Claremont. As you go down the hill and then you get to this monstrous mess that Doug Evans has created, we have 48 acres there. We are elderly. My husband is 84. I'm 74. The people door to us. The Harrisons have both passed away. Their daughters trying to hold on to that property. And then farther down, the car's lit. The poor carries are right next to this terrible disaster you've been hearing about all night. What we also have, you may call me a tree hugger, but we are losing animals like you wouldn't believe because there's no place for them to go. The birds, I mean, in the morning, it's like we've got tons of birds. Well, they don't have a home anymore. I know that sounds stupid,

but it is not because we're losing all of our our woods. And so we're trying desperately to pay our taxes and keep what we can have if Mr. Evans doesn't try to destroy the rest of the place. That's all I have to say. Thank you.

And then by the way folks, uh apologies. it just when what whenever you want to speak, it's just we got to have you come to the podium, that's all. So, um and uh Okay. Is there anyone else that would like to speak tonight? Okay. Yes, ma'am. Then I think you probably know. Oh, perfect. Yeah. And then just do me a solid and state your name and address for the record. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. My name is Pam Bull and I live at 4286 Laura Lane. I just wanted to ask about the Airbnb on Larma Lane if that's been addressed this evening. I showed up a little late.

No, we're not doing anything with the Airbnb tonight. I mean, you're more welcome to speak on it, give your opinion on it, but there's a chance it'll be the next month or the following month. It's a chance. Uh, we got to first figure out what we're going to do with it. Please, I could I can speak. So, I had a conver extended conversation after the last meeting with the property owner. I believe it's the same property owner, the one

in uh Yes. and uh we advised him that you cannot do those until we have regulations on that. Um I don't know what happened on Sunday with the one in Lexington Graange. I guess the police department and the property owner were able to dispatch that fairly quickly. Um there supposedly they are renting those out on a longer term basis which is not a short-term rental. Is he still using it as a short-term rental? Can you connect with me this week and get me any evidence that you have and I will continue that conversation or is it read is it advertised somewhere where we can see it that I haven't seen. I just I just see the people cuz I there's transient activity like more not not like

regular a regular tenant several people living there for months. No, it's all the time. Okay. Thank you. So that that is in contravention of what we were assured were was going to occur. Beautiful. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you miss. appreciate your time. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Anyone else for public comments tonight? Okay. Last call. Okay. Seeing none, we're going to close public comments and then uh Okay. Okay. Mr. I think first and foremost, I'm going to throw it over to you and we're going to specifically uh talk about uh the land that Doug Evans and all these folks are here to talk about.

Yes, sir. So, um in I've been here since 2006. Um, we we do not have clearing and grading and drainage regulations. In fact, Claremont County has clearing, grading, and drainage regulations. I am pleased to hear that Mr. Grant was able to follow up with WMSC and determined that they did send an inspector out. So, and I I believe that was verified. He voiceverified that or didn't say it at the podium, but but anyway, nonetheless, I'm going to do a status check with W with Greg Smory tomorrow and maybe even Heath Wilson. That said, traditionally, and I've talked to the law director about this because Mr. Grant and I have had, you know, many conversations, at least two or three, about what the word development means. Clearing and grubbing on its own, as far as the zoning resolution goes, are not regulated activities, and that is confirmed with the law director, and I ultimately look to him because he he he has to defend us in court. Um, if there was some change of use of the land, that would trigger a zoning permit. Um, if there was some structure built that would trigger a zoning permit, zoning review, property zone, estate residential. There's a ton of permissible uses in estate residential. I don't have them all in front of me. I can rattle them off from the zoning code, but

made a top top five.

Yeah. Single large lot, single family homes, um, you know, agricultural uses. Um there's some conditional uses that are allowed like uh cemeteries, riding stables, cell phone towers, um things like that. That's uh type B residential facilities, public facilities, roadside agricultural stands, wildlife reservations. So there's a lot of like lower intensity uses. And so if I remember, and I have to look at the map again, but I believe the entire property is zoned uh I believe it's zoned to state residential. In addition, Mr. Grant brought up uh article 13 FA, he referred to focus area. Focus area regulations apply to properties that are in focus areas. The if you everybody can see our land use map, uh the bulk of the township is located outside of focus areas where there is typical I guess I'm timing myself. Sorry. Unless you guys want me to stop, I can. Um, where there is, you know, traditional single family development. Uh, so you'll look at our map, there's a lot of white, that's just kind of no recommendations. And then there's focus areas along certain corridors of the township. And it's been that way for the better part of 20 to 30 years. So those focus areas, in those focus areas, additional regulations are applied. And you will see from time to time zoning cases that come forward before the board that are called overlay cases. Those are for you know and typically what we'll see is you know signage cases on 125 or we'll see you know development relief setbacks in 32 or 125. Mount Carmel Tobasco is one where I don't think there's a single I shouldn't say that there's probably not many conforming lots on Mount Carmel Tobasco Road because of the age of that. But this specific property, and I confirmed it today, it is not located in a focus area as defined in our plan. And so therefore, those regulations do not apply. So where where does that leave

us? Uh that leaves us with the with article six of the zoning code. Basically, we have to wait. We have to rely on the county for the drainage and WMSC, the EPA for any air or pollution violation. We're at the mercy of these other agencies that have jurisdiction. And I know that's not an answer that people like like to hear. And you know, Mr. To Mr. Cur's point, we're not kicking the cow down the road. We don't have the ability to regulate storm water. We don't the county already does it. And there's the potential. And again, I the law director can confer this and confirm this and I'm not a lawyer, but you know, we have a very good lawyer that we utilize. Uh if the county does it, we're not supposed to do it. And that's in controvention to the home room stat home rule statute. So they have pretty robust storm water regulations. They're doing it. You know, I think what I'm hearing tonight a lot of frustration. It happened overnight, right? It happened very quickly. It happened very serreptitiously. Again, we can't make the trees grow back. I I I but I don't know what other but you know, to the board's point, Mr. Becker's point and you know ultimately I report to you guys and if you tell me to investigate and there's a lot of work that went into this investigate what whether we can do anything about this I can certainly report back to you but I'm going to have to have probably you know at least a guy with a law degree look at some of this and then we're going to have to pour over it because there's a lot of information in here. So that's what I would say and that's not kicking the can and that's not deferring responsibility. There are specific jurisdictional and this is hard to believe and we had that conversation about who took did anybody take money who's whose what, you know, campaign contributions. We have a board of elected county commissioners. The townships are truly the most local form of government. Very different than a municipality, than a charter city where I worked for two years or even a

statutory village. Uh different powers. Um, the county has oversight over most of what I would call true development activity in terms of building code enforcement. We talked about building code enforcement. We talked about building permits. They have regulatory authority over WMSC, detention, storm water, all of those things. So, what do we look at? We look at bulk manner placement, location, setbacks. when we're talking about a straight zone like an er like a plain zoning district, not a plan development, not a special zoning district or anything like that. So, we're literally limited to what those district regulations say to my I mean, we sent Mr. Berky down. I think it was within the week of that I had an initial conversation with

Mr. Burr is our zoning in He's our zoning inspector. Zoning police, if you will.

Yep. He's the guy that goes out, knocks on people's doors, and tells them they're going to have a bad day. Generally, it's a tough job, right? Um, goes out there, drives down Mount Carmel, drove down, I don't know if he went down Pepper Ridge or not, but he went down Mount Carmel, took some photos of the property. It was evident that there was clearing going on. We did not see any evidence of any new structures, any legal structures, anything like that. You know, and again, to Mr. Becker's point, if a structure goes up illegally, they're going to get a zoning citation. Whether or not we hold up in court, we will defend that in court. In fact, you know, we actually issued I think we brought um a a case against Evans um and just recently settled it. I think we initiated that. So, uh for zoning non-compliance,

we settled it and approved him. Have a good night. So, Tenny, I'm sorry. So, so at any event, we brought the zoning violations forward. We went through the zoning the resolution, the original resolution, and then ensured compliance and all the other issues that were addressed in there, and then issued a settlement because that's what basically the courts want you to do with zoning cases. So, you know, to Mr. Gordon's point, again, everybody's allowed to have an opinion, but at the end of the day, that's that's our job is to get through that litigation. He he he's upset and I I don't blame him for being upset. Um public comment. Sorry, close. I'm sorry.

I just wanted to correct a comment that he made. Grubbing is actually a designation of heavy uh machinery operations that are so disturbing and so that may differentation. I know you said you spoke, but I want to make sure you

Sure. So, I'll say this and and if the two other trustes want to talk after myself, uh that's fine. the first off um a lot of times we don't know if there's issues unless you all take the time to come out here and tell us you know I mean there's there's 55ish thousand residents in Union Township and so we don't know what's going on all the time so I appreciate the passion I know you all are very upset and Mr. Gordon has every right to be upset as well. I mean, it's his property. Y'all's property is being affected. Um, I want to say it was five or six houses down on the left on Pepper Ridge. Uh, the Bocher's Bocher Bocher used to live there and I buddy of my name Justin, I hung out with him all through high school and all through grade school. I spent a lot of time with Pepper Ridge. Um, so I understand. I hear you loud and clear. I went out and visited the site as well personally and uh and so just so you know, so you and and don't don't overcorrect me on this. I'm not a topography guy, but you have your hill, it flattens out, then you have your hill again, then it flattens out again, then it runs into the M NBCA new building that they're building for the high school. Uh, and so, um, I see it clear as day. They cleared out all your trees, all the forest, uh, all I mean, you don't have to be a tree hugger. It's okay. I mean, the animals need a place to live as well. I, you know, so loud and clear. I know we are watching it like a hawk. Um, the problem is, for example, my my previous house, I removed a tree. I was allowed to do it. That was my property and I installed a pool. I didn't need any y'all's permission. It's my tree. I my land. The pole I need a permit for. And I got that. It was legally. It was my tree. And you're not liking what I'm saying right now. If you want to move a tree on your property, you don't need anybody's permission. You're allowed to do that. That's your liberty and freedom. And and the problem is Doug Evans has a dark cloud over top of him. and he's affecting all of y'all. I know. And to Mr. Becker's point, I echo exactly what he just said. If anything is illegal done on that property, we're going to

slap him with every right that we're allowed to to the fullest extent. Um, it's his property and he hasn't broken any township rules. The And to to to defer to what Mr. Wright said, all the grading, all the grubbing, and don't don't quote me on legal terminology. I'm not a lawyer. What he's doing right now falls on the county. And really, y'all need to, and I'm not trying to pass the buck. I'm not. If he breaks a rule, me and Mr. I promise you, Mr. Los, I can echo my words. Well, we have your back. We will absolutely uh uh inspect him and make sure he's following our rules uh the absolute best we can to the letter of the law. But for example, let me give you an example. We get a lot of complaints on Clike. There's no sidewalks on Club Pike. Maybe the road needs to be wider on Kluff Pike. Guess what? It's not our road. It's the county road. We have no say over Cleuff Pike. Now, we work with them. you know, our service department will patch a pothole even though it's not our responsibility. We do that. It's a county road. We have no control over Kluff Pike. I'm giving you that as an example. Um, so what I'm saying is so far what he's done is not breaking any township laws. It has to defer to the county. And you don't like what I have to say about that, but I'm telling you, I'm sorry. That's all I can say with it. If he bu puts up a building and erects a building, we'll absolutely slap him as hard as we possibly can. But he hasn't done anything and a township wise illegal guys. And really, I hate to say this, all of this needs to go to the county and we all need to fight for it on the county. And by the way, sir, my you look younger than me. You're clearly much smarter than me. This is a lot a lot. I was following along what you're saying and everything. Half it went over my head because you're it's very smart. Well done. A and for what it's worth and for what it's worth. So the property goes downhill this way. Half of it is in Anderson Township in Hamilton County. Not the slope.

Correct. Correct. But all the great I'm not use the word great. All the uh the clearing he's done. All of it. Um it it's half the properties and and don't quote me on half. Maybe it's 45% but it's dag it's close to 50% of the property is in Anderson Township. It's in Hamilton. All the ones. Correct. So but but he's he's done it all over though. So folks, I'm on your side. I completely couldn't have said it better than Mr. Becker. So, I I echo you 100% and and and I and and I I have your back on this one the best that we can. And Mr. Becker, do you want to go in, sir? Vice Chair,

uh I can tell you the only trees ever taken down on my property was after they after they were dead to keep them from hitting the house. Otherwise, I'd love the trees and should have cut down more of them when we built the house. But, uh that opportunity passed. That's all I have. Chairman, Mr. Logan, anything?

Um I I I hear all of you obviously robust amount of information and perspectives uh that I personally have been in your shoes not at Pepper Ridge but Terrace Ridge uh I bought there in 2015 and was told that the 16 acres or so behind it were all wooded were going to remain wooded until one morning a couple hundred neighbors woke up to bulldozers going through it and that was in the summer 2016 and with where my property was, it added 55 ft of field dirt off the backyard to where I had a sidewalk above your head if you would be standing in the backyard and it put my five foot fence underwater. Um, so I can definitely understand and relate uh from everything literally everything that you're talking about. everything, every concern packed into that piece of property right there. Uh from the erosion, is my house going to still stand or not? All of that. So, um yeah, I hear you. Uh well said. Um happy that we are the first board that uh was able to gain enforcement action with Mount Carmel Farms. Um, again, as Trusty Doss stated it, it's a it's a complex um environment. We don't have and I don't think you'd want us to weld all the power that you could possibly, you know, try to say from a government perspective. We just we don't have that. That's not how our system's designed. Um, so, um, we are limited to the power and authorities that we we do have that the people have given to the township trustees and, uh, I think that's where that that leaves us

right now, but we will definitely be able to have inspection and eyes on and, uh, be in communication with with you, our residents. So, thank you for your time tonight.

Well, thank you all very much. as far as this because I I haven't I don't think this is for public comment, a zoning case, yes, but public comment, I don't think we've ever had this many folks come out. So, I I know you all are passionate and my heart breaks for every one of you. I'm sorry. Um I hate that I hate that it's already cleared out and I hate that the trees are gone. I I know that's not the house that you bought and what you wanted for the future. I I hear you loud and clear and I my heart breaks for that. I do I feel sorry for y'all. I do. Um, but to prevent building buildings or anything, you have my word, we are going to absolutely inspect it and make sure that nothing's out of line. So, um, as far as that, so we'll continue on. Uh, we got our department reports and, uh, Chief Austin Clemens, our fire chief. Sir, I'll kick it over to you.

Thank you, Mr. DS. Chief Chief, just a minute. Can I make one public announcement? The county commissioners meet every Wednesday at 10:00 downtown. Every Wednesday. So, take your complaints and I'll see you down there. Be there Wednesday. What time? 10 o'clock. 10 o'clock Wednesday. Maybe we should do that three more times. 10 o'clock Wednesday. 10 o'clock Wednesday. 10 o'clock Wednesday. You won't forget. All right.

All the good news is about to get shared right now, though. So, we got we got the chief chief and department reports. So, You guys just want to take your bio break now cuz 7:52 it'll be quick. You ready? Whenever you are. Wait till I whenever you're ready, sir.

Okay. So, in the month of March, the fire department responded to 204 fire and service calls, 641 EMS details. We made patient contact with 587 patients, and transported 482 of those patients to local hospitals. The fire department completed 1,525 hours of training, were a part of 12 public education details, hosted ride time for local students uh in the amount of 12 uh excuse me, 24 hours, completed 284 life safety inspections, nine inspections in conjunction with Claremont County Building Department, and we currently have four, excuse me, we we have two current openings, but a couple retirements here in the next couple weeks. So, we'll have four openings on the fire department. Still seeking qualified applicants. That concludes my report.

Chief, appreciate you. Uh, Mr. Becker, I have nothing. Mr. Logan,

hey. Thank you very much, Chief. Chief, good job, sir. Uh, police department. Chief Reese, sir. Thank you, Mr. Dills. In the month of March, the communications center handled 5,438 calls for service for police, fire, and EMS and 5,272 total calls. 484 uh court related documents were processed for juvenile and adult court uh that required uh officer's appearance in court. One vendor permit was issued for the month. 196 records requests were handled by our records division and 45 body camera videos were redacted. In the area of public affairs, officers conducted two public relations events during the month of March. Uh we officers participated in the pole fields annual Easter egg hunt and we assisted Grant Career Center with a with a criminal justice advisory board. In the area of operations, our patrolman handled 344 incident reports, 95 crash reports, made 469 traffic stops, issued 140 citations, 345 warnings, made 90 criminal arrests, 65 traffic arrests, and served 97 warrants. The honor guard in the month of March participated in one event. They presented the colors at the Veterans Park at Veterans Park for chapter 649's Vietnam Veteran Day ceremony. Officers attended 304 hours of training in the month of March and there are currently two open police officer positions and one open dispatcher position in the police department. And that concludes my report, sir. Vice Chair Becker.

Uh yes, Chief Ree. So, you know, I'd like to uh go over these uh you know, read through the call out reports and uh one in particular jumped out at me on March 13th. Safe cracking tele communications fraud at U Sheriffax Credit Union Ivy Point. I think this is the third time. What uh what what can you tell us about this particular hit and is it related to the previous two? So unfortunately this is another what we call a jackpot scam uh that you see going on nationally and that is correct. This is the third attempt actually the third attempt the first one was successful. Um Sheriffax was good enough to uh correct their their alarm system on their ATM. So the alarm actually triggered an ATM shutdown when this attempt was made. Uh I don't want to get too much into the the investigative part of this, but let suffice it to say that the technology that's available through our department through Flock cameras uh and some other cameras allowed us to identify a suspect vehicle and track that vehicle back to Indianapolis. Uh our our investigators responded out uh that night and were actually able to make arrests. Uh it was an attempt. They weren't successful. Uh but they have been arrested and prosecution's underway. An excellent job by our investigative unit. I'm very proud of them.

Yeah, it says here within hours detectives identified the involved uh suspects. It was uh three of them and and and there's notation here. They're all from Venezuela. These illegal aliens again. Well, I I can't say that for a fact, but Okay. Thank you. That's all. You're welcome. Thank you, Mr. Lo. Thank you, Chief. Chief, good job. Appreciate it, sir. our service department director, Mr. Taylor. Sir,

yes. Thank you, Mr. Dil. In the cemetery division, from March 1st through the 31st, uh 13 burials were performed, generating $8,475. Seven resident graves were purchased for $4,900. One non-resident gray was purchased for $1,700. And six colarium uh niches were purchased for $7,200. Uh the total amount generated for the period was 27,645. In the parks division, the weekly mowing, trimming, and landscape maintenance continues on uh all township facilities and the parks. And in the roads division, a total of 37 work orders uh were completed on multiple township roads. And that concludes my report.

Mr. Bicker, no nothing. Mr. L. No. Good job, Mr. Chill. Appreciate it, sir. Community engagement, our assistant township administrator, Miss Lisa R.

Thank you. Our social media followers continue to grow and we are up to approximately 8.6,000 followers. Our count content views have increased 6% and our followers have increased 39% over the last 90 days. We continue to be above average nationwide for government agency followers. We promoted Union Township in the Discover Claremont magazine again this year, which is available in print and online. Uh encouraging visitors to explore all the region has to offer. We've partnered with Rumkey Waste and Recycling to better serve our community with the residential voucher program. The new residential voucher program begins April 20th, so this coming Monday. Each household has access to two vouchers each year, and you can pick those up at the service department. Um, our partnership with Snowy continues this spring with a consistent Snowy location at Veterans Memorial Park beginning April 24th and it will last through this fall again. We've partnered again with Crimestoppers for the annual drug drop and paper shred event that occurred over the weekend. Our Citizens Police Academy alumni as well as our police officers were there to help. This event is a great opportunity for residents to safely dispose of any unused or expired prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications. We are partnering again with the Claremont Soil and Water Conservation District and the Adams Claremont Solid Waste District for the annual spring litter cleanup event. You're invited to make an impact on the environment by signing up to volunteer and help clear trash and unsightly debris at several parks, waterways, and other shared open spaces across the county. There's going to be a location at Union Township and they'll meet on Saturday, April 25th from 9 to 11:00 a.m. You can register at springlittercle cleanup.com. All your protective gloves and trash bags will be provided. We are partnering partnering with the Southwest Ohio Philharmonic to be a host facility for

an evening of remembering remembrance honoring Angelo Santoro on Friday, May 29th. And then we also have some exciting spring and early summer community engagement opportunities come up coming up that we aren't partnering with anybody with, but we're hosting. Uh, family movie night will be held on Saturday, May 9th at Veterans Memorial Park. We put a social media post out there so you can vote for which feature movie you want played. We are also hosting the annual family fishing event Saturday, May 16th at Cleer Park. It's a great way to introduce family and friends to the sport of fishing as well as challenge yourself. Registration for the event begins at 9:00 a.m. The farmers market is open for applications through Friday, April 24th. Included participants will be emailed a vendor agreement prior to Wednesday, April 29th. Our farmers market will begin Friday, June 5th, and run through Friday, September 11th, excluding Friday, June 19th, and Friday, July 3rd. Due to the holidays, our summer concert series kicks off on Friday, June 5th with audio graffiti. Uh it will begin with a farmers market at 4 and then beginning at 6:30 there'll be a food truck or two, a beverage stand, and that will be available through 900 pm. The entertainment begins at 700 p.m. With the weather becoming nicer, you may see our park ambassadors out and about in parks wearing volunteer shirts. Please feel free to reach out about any questions you may have. If you are interested in becoming a park ambassador, please reach out to the service department. This summer, we also have Mad Cap Cup pupp Puppets coming back on Saturday, June 27th at 10 am. And then new this summer on August 1st, we will have a magic show geared towards children of all ages. So, if you have any questions about events, please visit the township's website at ut

about the shred event Saturday. Sure. That was incredible. I mean, talk about smooth just moving them through and there shred trucks were coming and going. I I I appreciate that, sir. But not not trying to be a bad guy, but public comments. We we got to move on with it, but appreciate that. Appreciate the feedback. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Ar. Good job. Uh, Mr. Becker, sir. I just looking forward to the summary event. Tell chairman. Mr. Lloyd, thank you very much. Quick question. Um, organic followers versus paid followers. What are we what are we growing at? Organic followers. All of ours are organic. Okay. We don't have any paid. Better quality.

Better quality. Those are local people following us. When you do a paid, you get more um tri-state national. Um ours are very locally grown. Locally grown followers. Okay, that's excellent. Thank you. Great work. Sorry, that was a lot. Good job. Appreciate you very much. Thank you.

All right. Planning and zoning for interim. Uh Mr. Wright, sir. Thank you, sir. And hopefully not interim for too much longer. We are uh just not to bel or betray my uh administrative report, but that'll be an item that I talk about. Um so, uh regarding inspections and there's a new format this year or this month responsive to what Mr. Becker had asked for a rolling total, and I think we're going to work to reflect that in our other department reports. You can see for the month of March, 33 inspections, 13 complaints, three unfounded, six warning citations, two 15-day non-compliance letters, one 30-day letter, uh zero actions forwarded to legal counsel, five actions resolved administratively, 386 illegal signs removed. Um 14 miscellaneous kind of issues that we get complaints on or go out and look at. 15 violations for the month, reinspection of 11 existing violations and two nuisance filed. With regard to permit activity, we had uh four changes of use, five sign permits, one temp temporary sale, three three new single family home permits, uh a lot of decks. This time of year, we had five deck permits, seven accessory permits, 17 pools and fences, which I guess March is the month to get your pool and fence permit. So, uh, grand total of 48 permits for the month. Monthly revenue total $7,250. That concludes the zoning report. Mr. Bigger.

No, I'm good. M. Good. Thank you. Keep it rolling, Mr.

Yes, sir. Going right into the administrative report. Uh, we are underway on engineering for the old 74 U old 74 sidewalks between schoolhouse and basically Bach Buckston. That work is ongoing. We are planning to apply for SDBG money through OKI for pedestrian improvements along Icults Road, which will extend from where the county kind of left the sidewalk hanging off a cliff right around the corner, hopefully all the way down to Eastgate Boulevard and tie into some of the Ivy Point action over there. Um, we're working with Choice One in that regard. We have applied for ODOT systemic safety funding for the summerside road pedestrian improvements and we have an upcoming uh uh presentation brief presentation with their reviewing committee uh at ODOT. Access control systems continue. We are now under contract with National Gunite for the M Miami View Culvert Lining. Drainage improvements were completed at the playground uh by the playground contractor at Veterans Park. Uh this they really ran out of time last year. here. This gave them the opportunity to go back in, fix some of the underlying drainage improvements, and I think it's been phenomenal. So, uh, we'll be getting seed and straw on that here soon. Uh, we have we have a pretty extensive disposal of equipment resolution for the board to consider cemetery fees. Uh, we already did the promotion for the chief, which is very positive for the fire or for the district chief, very positive for the fire department. Uh we do have a junk mo nuisance motor vehicle related to a prior nuisance on Marjgery. This is a second action that we declared kind of junk and stuff nuisance previously. This is on regard registered titled vehicles. There's a different process we have to follow. We have also uh we are also requesting CDBG funding. Uh there's a resolution to do that for some since the county has elected two years in a row to not fund improvements at Mount Carmel Park. So, we're going to pivot and try to bridge

the gap on the summerside improvements and go a little further with that. The swans were successfully relocated. The snow emergency resolution has been posted and as soon as that has been completed, uh we will get that uh finalized uh and implemented with signage. And just by way of an update, I know this is everybody's favorite topic, aggregation. Uh we were able to secure a rate that started with a nine um which Duke Energy's current rate is 10.0 Oh, it's basically 10 one. It's 0.108 and we were able to drive it down to 0.999. So, we're actually we have a marginal savings over the current cost to compare. Pricing is all over the place with I mean for obvious reasons we got a lot of global uncertainty in the energy markets, but we will uh customers will be seeing those. And importantly, if you don't ever want to receive a letter, there is an a permanent opt out link to PUCO's website on our website. go in, sign up before they told me April 24th if you don't want to get the letter. Otherwise, the letter has our logo on it. It'll have Dyn's logo on it and there'll be a uh the 999 the N90999 rate and then a renewal option which is a little bit more expensive.

So, you can permanently opt out. You can only electricity, not gas. PUCO has not developed a permanent opt- out list for gas yet. That's really it. I mean, I got a lot more, but it's I'll try to be brief. Mr. Becker. No, I'm good. I'm good. Thank you. So, everyone knows what we're talking about there. The aggregation. That's your electric. You don't have a choice. I don't like it. Y you all don't like it. We don't like because we got bought with calls and emails because you're like, "Oh, why did my electricity go from Duke to was it Dynag?" Dyn what? What was it? 20 November of 15.

2015. the township voted, the residents voted and passed that we have to opt you into this stuff and you can opt out of it. So I don't like it. Um because people will call us and balardos saying, "Hey, why did my electric switch from whatever?" Can't help it. It's it's a wall. So anyways, um moving on. Oh, okay. Let's do this. 809. All right, gentlemen. I entertain a motion for a brief recess. So moved. Second. Okay. Uh Mr. Camp, roll call. Mr. Burgerer. Yes. Mr. Lo. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Taking a brief recess at 8:08 p.m.

All right. Uh, gentlemen, I'll entertain a motion to exit our short recess. So move. Second. Mr. Camp. Roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lug. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. We're returning to session at 8:21 p.m.

All right. So, next up is our public hearings, which I'm sure most of you in this room are probably here for. for the rest of you. Uh so hey um you know there is no time limit. You can talk as long as you'd like uh on these ones. So this is uh this has got to go into a public hearing. And so uh the first one is uh and then Mr. Wright, I'm going to throw it over to you for explanation. Union Township zoning case 2-26-Z is in Zulu. Or is it Miss R. Is it you? No, no, no. She's gonna pull up PowerPoint. Sorry.

Okay. And then I'll throw it over to you for a brief explanation, sir. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Case uh 226Z. This is an application by John Hanks, Brier Hill Development. Uh basically, uh 10.39 acres, three different sub areas located kind of in the vicinity of um common Groveser Square. I forgot the name of the street for a second. Kind of vapor locked. Groveser Square, the roundabout, uh Glenasti kind of Glenasti Colts, that kind of area. Um, so this is located uh there's 18 total parcels, three different focus area, sub areas. Um, there's a pretty extensive analysis that we reviewed at the zoning commission level uh regarding each sub area and the relationship to the comprehensive plan. Uh, just looking at these, all of these are generally consistent with the recommendations of the comprehensive plan. Uh, re recommendations that go wittensville Icults road revitalization and improvement plans. And I guess it's going to melt down again. we'll have to reboot it uh or whatever.

Um so apparently our projector's on the on the outs. Uh so

uh in any event um I've provided the uh relationship to the PD district regulations. A little bit of background. A lot of these parcels are either owned by the trustees in the Union Township CIC. A lot of them were uh packaged over the course of several years uh acquired and sort of now we're here sort of to facilitate the Icults connector and to sort of revitalize some of the the frontage parcels on what was Glenn SD. I guess it's now ITS. It's sort of whichever one you want to call it. Um so, you know, looking at this, it went to the zoning commission. The zoning commission did recommend unanimously to approve this project uh on March 25th. Uh they adopted staff uh recommendations 1 through 8 and three additional uh recommendations as follows. So it was unanimous vote to reszone from R1, R2 and R3 to PD. Uh basically the applicant comply with uh requirements federal, state, local regulatory agencies submit for minor amendments uh for partial specific development on sub area 1, sub area 2 for administrative review and approval. And I'm summarizing here uh follow all platting requirements from the county uh on single family residential portion of the project uh basically tying to the single family portion in sub area 3 to changes in setbacks buffers stuff like that to a major amendment process detailed lighting plans cross access easements detailed landscaping plans use of high quality building materials monument signage blade signage that that's building mounted signage uh regarding sub areas 1, two, and three, the recommendations for staff report case 1 through 8. Uh the zoning commission originally referenced nine. There were only eight in the staff report, and I think that's a typographical or scribers error. Um and uh in uh number 10 was in sub area 3,

the elimination of lots 1 through 19, which basically reduced it from 17 building lots to 15 building lots with two open space and buffering lots in the back. and then the addition of a minimum 20 foot landscape buffer along the existing single family houses to the south of sub area 3. So just not to belver the point over again. I think everybody's here heard this. Uh the trustees have had a copy of the report. Uh the action required this evening is to approve as recommended and is further modified with the zoning commission approved with additional or subsequent modifications or deny this application. Uh just one thing I would point out in this they did make changes already responsive to the zoning commission's you know requirements and then importantly and as part of this analysis the PD district has always been the most appropriate district to utilize to facilitate infill development providing flexibility to market the site the design for the end user and notably uh with the zoning commission's unanimous recommendation and and and discussion in that um that that should be noted for the board. So happy to answer any questions.

Mr. Becker, I have no comments or questions at this time. Mr. Luke, good. Thank you. Mr. Wright, good job. Um, no. Perfect. Good job. Thank you, sir. Okay, gentlemen. I will entertain a motion to open are these public hearing for Union Township zoning case 2-26-Z is in Zulu. So moved. Second. All right, Mr. G. Roll call. Mr. Bucker. Yes, Mr. Lug. Yes, Mr. Dills. Yes. The uh public session is open at 8:27 p.m.

All right. So, now it's the public comments time. So, first off, what we'll do is anyone that is a proponent of this case that is for this case, now is your time to come up and speak. Uh could be the builders themselves or anyone else that's for it. Please, please go ahead. Yeah. Time for the applicant. It is. It is. Please. Yep. Yep. And then so just go ahead and state your Oh, sorry. It's public hearing. Let me swear you in. Uh sir, do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth? Nothing but the truth? So be gun. Yes. Great. So please state your name and address for the record. My name is Dave Bis. I live at 2 Green Bryer Drive, St. Louis, Missouri, 63124. Uh Miss R, are you able to I handed over a

Okay. Um it probably won't uh work, but that's okay. We'll do talk through it. I wanted to uh really where I wanted to start in a couple of the slides uh that I hope to show you is just to uh remind you don't start the slideshow. I don't have like anything with a picture tonight. Let's skip the slides. Did he give us the slides don't want to participate?

Uh, and I'm okay with that. Uh, it had a few pictures in there. I think most of them are likely in the package uh for Mr. Wright. And I just uh thought it would be helpful to pull them up uh uh for the residents uh and for all of you as well as everybody I believe that's here. uh just to have a couple of pictures and things that we can refer to uh a as as questions come up. Uh I I've been uh uh working in the in the township. Uh I do live in St. Louis, but I have a property on Bach Buckton. It's provision living. It's a senior housing community on provision living. Uh we've uh uh it's a two-story assisted living building. We have villas uh that are part of that. Uh it's later this month. We're going to expand those villas uh to our north um and add it's been a very successful property. Uh we uh we are also uh have the property that's also on the agenda for tonight for zoning. Uh that's just north of us. Uh and I'll I can come back and talk a bit about that a little bit later. And really our our overall process is to uh focus on the township, focus on uh the goals the township has, the walkability. Uh uh we started with the assisted living and the villas. Our focus is in this area which is on the other side of the old high of the old high school site. Uh and looking at these three areas where and creating uh some additional uh homes uh as well as uh some walkable uh commercial uses in that area. Uh uh Mr. Wright went through uh many many of those those components. I mainly just wanted you to know that I'm here to answer any questions u either uh from the from our neighbors uh or from all of you and if the slides ever come up we can uh we can take a look at those as needed.

Mr. Per, any questions? No. Mr. Look, no. Thank you, Mr. Bis. Good to see you. Well, I just wanted to to paint a visual for me since we don't have it up here. So, if we're coming from the police department and the police department's on our right and I'm I'm let's let's say take take me down a trip. So, we're walking down on the right across from the echelon apartments is you all asked for 17 single family homes and the zoning uh recommended for 15. So, eliminate two of them. That'll be on the right. And we keep walking down. We go past We go to left around the roundabout and then we go past Mr. I think it's is that Governor's Way? I think it's govern

Gross. Okay. Yeah. So, so right past that on the right, which is where that Dollar General's at currently, and and uh so we haven't gotten that far. So, if you go around the roundabout and u you you just as you pass that, the apartments are still on your left. Yeah. And then as you go past um uh where the pool the property is, where the pool is, and as you uh get to about that area, on your right, there are two acres that we're talking about. Uh and then on your left, there are four acres. Yeah, that 4 acres abuts the uh the area uh that's being cleared right now. Um uh that that's that's further north.

Got it. So So paint us a visual. What What are those three lots going to be? Uh it'll be uh it'll be commercial. So in the one on the left, uh that's uh the hotel or that's the four acres. Uh in the back uh we're contemplating a hotel and then in the front uh retail. The retail would be walkable retail. You know, we hope to have uh restaurants, um ice cream shop, um things like that. And then similar to that, across the street, it would be a uh similar building across the street with um amenities such as that. Great. Okay.

Uh we do have examples of uh of of the the look and feel uh uh that we're expecting to to put in there. Perfect. And then ballpark roughly, I'm not going to hold you, but ballpark the 15 homes, 17 to 15 homes. Uh ballpark, what is the price range going to be when you put them up for market to sell? Uh I think John, where where will those come in? Probably four four or 5,000 four. Okay. Uh 500 400 to 500,000. Okay. Four. And it's 15. We're okay. 15. Perfect. Okay, that's all the questions I got. Um Perfect. Well, thank you, Mr. Bis. Appreciate you very much. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Bis. Thank you.

Is there anyone else that like to speak as far as a proponent of this case that is for this case? Please come on up, sir. Yeah. And because it's a public hearing, I got to swear you in. Please raise your right hand. All right, sir. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth? I love the truth. So, I hope you got it. I do. Great. Please state your again name and address for the record, sir.

Tyler Gibbs. I am the owner of Axel Building Group, Maddox Development. Um, we're located at 4026 Bach Bucksen Road, Betavia, Ohio, Junior Township. Um, I'm here tonight because I got a notice in the mail. I am under contract to buy the shops at Kennedy's Landing, which is where the dollar store is. Um, I'm a proponent of this. Um, I think I saw some of the renderings briefly this past week. Um, as far as the commercial buildings go, um, you know, we're we're just as committed, not to the scale that they are, to um, you know, investing in this area. Um, as you know, the the shopping center that we're under contract to buy, um, I should correct letter of intent to and buy to to buy. We're working on the contract. Um, it's pretty the dollar store is not active. Um, and so we're going to work ourselves to get that back full, get that parking lot back full. We love to see the development across the street by Aldi. And then, um, and so, you know, I'm obviously here. I'm for the case. I think it's good for the area. So, I would like to see um it would be nice to see for the people to see some of the renderings if they haven't um because they're very nice. They're very nice buildings and um so

we caught a virus earlier Mr. Becker any questions. I'm good. Thank you. Mr. Gibbs appreciate you also investing in our township as well very much. Thank you sir. Okay sir. Okay. Is there anyone else that's for this case proponent and and what I might say Mr. Uh, according to Lisa, the stream was broadcasting it, but we can't see it here. So, there's something going on with projector. If anybody wants I have a packet if anybody wants to look at it has not seen it. Sure.

Okay. Okay. Uh, all right. Anyone that is against this case, that is an opponent of this case. Yes, Miss, please come on up.

All right. Please. Okay. And then uh please raise your right hand. Yes. Yes, ma'am. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth? Are they both true? Toby God. Yes. Yes, ma'am. Please state your name and address for the record.

Carolyn Lensler, 960 Bulgorn Drive. And I am opposed to this project. You just just totally destroying a residential neighborhood, but I live on the corner of Burggoyne and Glennie Wamsville. My house faces Gleni Withersville and my driveway is off of Burggoyne. There's going to be so much more traffic on Glendes Wamsville when you open the overpass over 32. The countywide in Glenn Hest Wamsville in front of my house. So much so that they took so much of my front yard. My driveway is literally 4 feet away from the white line where Glenn or Burggoyne has to stop before they hit the stop sign to turn off of Burggoyne. I have to carefully back out of my driveway and I do look to see there's nobody on Glenn Nesty that's going to be turning down Burggoyne. But at this point I have 15 neighbors on Burggoyne. They are not going to fly around that corner and hit me. When you open up Burggoyne and put that entrance to the uh project that's going on the other corner Burggo and Glenn has to Wessamsville there. You're going to run that parking lot between Burggoyne and Groer, there's going to be a ton of trouble or people. I'm literally not going to be able to get out of my driveway without risking my life and I'm concerned about what's going on across the street from me on the uh west side of Glenn Eski Wessomsville. Is there going to be a bar or a restaurant that serves alcohol and are they going to stay open until two o'clock in the morning with all the noise and bright lights? So, I'm I just I'm sick about what you've done to my neighborhood.

Mr. Becker, do you have anything for No, I just wanted to answer a question. The first watch, I don't believe they serve alcohol at all. The Bivby pop, I don't know. That's a little bit further down on directly across We first watching that are on that lower level. I'm up the next higher level the corner of Burggoyne and I believe you're going to run Burggoyne across we'll ask youville and as an entrance to whatever development that's going over there. So you're concerned about what's going to go on across the street from you this new development we're talking about. I'm more worried not being able to get on my driveway without getting smacked.

I I understand. four feet from the corner with more traffic coming off of that other parking lot. Like I say, my neighbors I trust. They're not going to run over me. How long have you lived there? Since 1978. Wow. You've seen a lot of change. Yeah. Yeah. The one of people down the house were probably where Jule Jeffy Luba is now. Actually, he had a horse and buggy that every once in a while he's going down the road. I've seen it all. Wow. All right. Thank you.

Is there anyone else that'd like to speak tonight that isn't a Yeah. Please come on up. I got to swear you in. Oh, that's okay. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's okay. It's okay. Please raise your right hand. All right. You swear to tell the truth. The whole truth about the truth. Help God. I do. Please. And then state your name and address for the record, sir.

Uh Charlie Stitler, 4316 Farmer Lane. Um, I want to first thank the zoning committee as well as the developers working with the community to revise sub area 3 to follow some of the codes. Uh, but tonight I'm raising one specific unresolved issue um with the revised plans that were submitted under sub area 3, parcels 4142202 and 414220.004 004 owned by Donna uh Hendrickx. Uh do not show a 20 foot buffer on the east or west sides of the property. Subsection 684.3.D of the zoning resolution states a 20ft landscape buffer yard along any adjoining residential zone. Any boundary where this planned development touches a residential zone triggers the buffer requirements. A vacant lot zoned R1 is still within residential zone. vacancy does not change the zoning classification with respect to zone se zoning section 687.10 um which which removes buffer yards from plan development variable standards stating that the minimum setback are variable except for rideway buffer yards. I respectfully request that they submit a revised plan demonstrating compliance with that code. Um, and also possibly an official written interpretation of if section 684.3D applies to side boundaries before the vote is uh taken by the township. Thank you.

Anyone want Mr. A, can you address some of those things? Sure. Uh, you know, historically the township uh the zoning commission and the board of trustees have the ability to vary that and I believe I indicated that to you. I'm sorry on my delayed response. I've been on the phone. I'm just addressing the exact verbiage which is any correct residential property. Correct. And historically the way that that's been interpreted is they use that to buffer dissimilar uses since the uses the use categories are identical and the other portion of that is one of those lots is unoccupied. Occupation doesn't change the variance of the propert. I can tell you that that that does have a have a usually historically had a condition on that. Not you need to follow I'm not going to. You asked me for an interpretation. Mr. Dills referred to

Well, I'll get interpretation from the law director, not you. That's okay. The law director trying to help you out and answer your question. That's all I I hear you're saying. I know. I know. So So can you So would you can I please? Yes. Sorry. Yes, sir. So So again, historically that standard can be varied. Correct. Yes. And it's ultimately the zoning commission's discretion to determine whether they're going to vary that and recommend that. And then it's ultimately the board of trustees discretion to determine whether they're going to apply that or not. Right. Um historically they have not required buffer buffer yards against vacant parcels. It's not vacant. It's a residential one property.

It's a buildable lot. If she wanted to come in tomorrow and put a single family house on that parcel non-conforming lot of record, she can do that. Yeah. But you still need the buffer between her R1 lot and the PL plan development. Am I Am I missing something? I just explained it. Yeah, we can vary the standard. Okay. I mean, you're saying historically, but you know, let's maybe change that. Let's push it back to plan development. Let's push it back to the zoning. Let's just work together with the community. I'm really I'm really thankful that they are talking to us. I really am. I just want to make sure that our neighbors and our residents are protected from encroachment just like any of you would want to be protected. Sure.

That's all. Appreciate that very much. Yeah. Well said. Mr. Anyone have any questions for him? No. Okay. Appreciate you very much. Thank you. Anyone else like to speak tonight on this? Please come on up, sir. Yes. All right, come on up. All right, same as the others. Thank you. Uh, would you please raise your hand? Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and the but truth? So, be God. I do. Great. Then just please state your name and address for the record. Name is Michael Deskins, 4301 Larma Lane.

Please give the full floor is yours.

Uh, yeah. Guys, I was at the uh commissioner's meeting and uh listened to a lot of the neighbors come up in the in the the two streets or the surrounding streets and they put up a lot of good points of their objections to the the development coming in. Um in my opinion and a lot of the opinions that were shared that night, the area is overdeveloped. Um there's not enough room for what they're wanting to bring in with more building houses. Um I'm was very disappointed that after sitting through that meeting and hearing all the people who were residents of the area, the voters, taxpayers, that the commissioners immediately when they got into their session afterwards kind of seemed like they ignored everything the resident said and went into trying to figure out how they could best appease the developer. Uh, I felt like we were invisible there even though we had talked for over an hour. Uh, it was very disappointing. I guess I'm going to have to do a learn some civics and find out what my best route for having some of the people who didn't want to give us the attention that I think we deserve. How what's the best way to change who those people are in office? Um, one of my uh worst fears about the changing of the neighborhood came to light this past weekend when a friend of mine called me and told me to go over to the the park at Union Township and just see what was going on. I was shocked. It was a massive group of young people. I mean, not to condemn young people, but

they were young. Of course, to me, everybody's young. and the the activities that were going on were not compatible with a a township that's trying to build a familyfriendly atmosphere with a a really great park for little kids and things to play on and the activities going on that the police had to be called out to which uh if this is and it's not I mean that's the first first time I've seen it happen there but that's been going on for some time since the commons have been there.

Uh what the Commons were originally presented at as on the radio when I was listen listening to it on WLWT, not to advertise for them. I mean, they they promoted it as it's going to be a senior village. Uh there's going to be all the amenities seniors could possibly want. There was going to be an ice cream shop, uh ladies hairdressing, and all kinds of things for seniors. That's not what's going on over there now. Uh it wasn't supposed to be as much section 8 as it obviously is. Um I'm concerned that these new houses that they're wanting to put in into an area that I don't think is big enough for it. What's to stop that from becoming that again? more of that kind of uh housing. When those people get together on weekends late at night, they're not going to stay contained to the park. My neighbors are concerned. They've already seen from this past weekend people crossing through going through their yards down up and down the street their safety. I I can almost guarantee there's going to be a lot more crime in the area. And uh most of the people you listen to are are seniors that live there. Uh if they're like me, they've been there since 79 and they had plans on staying there for the rest of their life or maybe going into that senior center that was supposed to be in the where the commons are, but that's not what that is. I'm afraid we're being pushed out. I'm afraid that our property values are going to go downhill. Uh I won't be able to get what I've got invested into my housing. But the main thing that upset me about the whole process was the attitudes of the commissioners during that meeting.

How they kind of treated the residents as if they didn't matter. They had already made their mind up. They had an agenda was my feeling. Um, I appreciate the time and I hope you'll vote against changing the zoning. Thank you. Anyone who have questions or comments?

Okay. Appreciate you very much. Thank you. Thank you. The uh and I'll I'll state on the record as far as our I think you're referring to our uh zoning board. Um I pro they're all local residents of Union Township. Um, and and I it's basically a a dag on near a volunteer job that they don't and uh integrity is topnotch with them. I I got to tell you, I don't think that's an issue. I do think that they do take your concerns very heavy uh with that. So, for what it's worth, but uh uh Miss You going to speak? I got Yeah. Yeah. Please. Yeah. Uh you sort of tell the truth. The whole truth is about truth. So, be God. I do. Please state your name and address for the record.

I'm Veronica Mottz and I live at 4280 Lang. Yes, ma'am. And if I'm not mistaken, these where they want to build houses, I have friends that lost their houses there because of the new roadway. So why are we wanting to build homes there now? So

absolutely, this township is flooding property here. You can't move on these roads. You can't get out on Fluff Pike hardly anytime in the afternoon or early evening. I addressed this before about seeing about widen our street at the end. I haven't heard a word on that. So, I'm wondering what the township's really doing for us or doing to us. Thank you, miss. Is there anyone else that like to speak to that?

Yes, please come on up. All right. Oh, thank you, miss. Appreciate you. And then I'll go and swear to you. All right. Do you swear to tell the truth? Sorry. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth? I the truth shall help be God. Amen. Yes. All right. And then please state your name and address for the record.

My name is Don Phil. T H I L L. I live at 781 Deer Valley Drive. So, as you all know, I'm not anywhere near where these people live. I'm here to support them. I came here to try to understand the plan better. Number one, not your fault. Obviously, we have a technical error. Okay? But I had a hard time, Mr. Wright, understanding it at the zoning meeting. I'm not the brightest person in the world at reading some of the roads and plans, but I also felt to the gentleman's point, and this is one thing I wanted to say because I have no interest in these properties. I love our zoning commission. They're really good people. They were very dismissive in that meeting. Okay. One of the big concerns that the people expressed was the traffic. If I'm not mistaken, and again I don't totally understand this development, there's probably some commercial or business. Is that correct? Okay. Is it apartments or hotel or both?

There's no no apartments, no multif family. So, it's uh 15 single family residential homes.

They reduced it to 15, which the residents feel that is still too dense. Okay. I can't even envision paying for a $400,000 house on what would be that size lot. You'd have to be an idiot to do that. I'm sorry. Okay. The other gentleman brought up the point in terms of and I did some reading about this. Is property value going to go up? Is it going to go down? Is it going to stay the same? Okay. Um they're valid concerns. It might be too early to tell. Okay. Sometimes you'll get what's called the halo effect where a new development kind of makes the developments run more valuable. I think in this case that's probably not going to happen. Okay? And these are the people who are going to suffer. These are the people I'm sorry they're screwed. Okay? Because the township continues to put development before the people who've been sitting here paying their freaking taxes for over 30 years. Okay. Now, I'm not against development. I'm against misdevelopment. I'm against stupid development. I'm against selfish development. Okay. You builders are here to make your money. I don't blame you, but you're screw.

Miss, can you address? You got to address. I'm sorry. Okay. I'm a little emotional. I'm an Italian American woman, so I speak my peace for better or worse. Mr. Wright, going back to the traffic. Okay. One of the things they talked about was how hard it's going to be to get out of some of the streets. What street is it? We got address. Are you going to be having commercial traffic through we're going as well? So, this is the plan. And I wish I had the graphic. Um because there's I know you don't want to do a traffic study. That that's No, that's I was

Yeah, you let me answer the question. Go ahead. Go ahead. So, I wish I had the plan up. I don't. She has a copy of it. Uh there is a uh cross uh driveway behind the structure. We call it sub area 2. And that's kind of a parking area. It's a it's the the buildings are oriented up toward the street. The parking is in the back. Are there two connection points? Yes. Part of that is because the way the county laid out the roundabout and Groer, Kennedy's Landing and um Burggoyne, in a perfect world, you would not have built Kennedy's Landing, Burggoyne and Groer the way that they were built because they're too close together, right?

Can I please please? Sure. And so so the county when they put the roundabout in there is uh spacing requirements for intersections and turn lane stacking and and design that engineers specify. And so when you look at that and those three roads, it's Kennedy's Landing is is really quite frankly the problem because it's very close to Burggoyne. Sure. Which is Burggoyne actually is the most logical point for a four-way intersection. Okay. And so when you look at that um that way you have room for a left stack you know coming this way which keeps people out of the travel lanes right

and it also they have enough room for a left stack to get in when they're coming from say if they let's say they work in Bavia and they get off at uh uh Eastgate North and they come around the bridge when if the bridge is ever you know when it when the bridge is finished right uh and they'll be able to get into the left stack and then zip right home into right

so so that but there is a there is a cross connection between that, but it's not a road, it's a parking lot and it's it's got stacking and they can put they can do things that we can't do. They can put things like speed bumps in all of that. So so traffic on that side is this way and then on the 4 acre site that's aligned so that those so that you have a full four-way, you know, a left in both ways, right? The county engineers looked at that and then the project that everybody's driven by which is on the corner,

right? that's going to have a right in a temporary right out and then that is going to have a cross access easement through that so that you know you don't have driveways every so often which everybody knows that's like Beachmont Avenue you get that you get a lot of that and that they're trying to avoid that so you know you get that that access that's controlled and they actually did a traffic impact study for the commercial portion the residential does not drive there's not enough density to drive traffic impact study it's you I forget it's 60 100 units something like that. You're going to basically have you got 15 lots and I forget I think it's either seven and eight or eight and seven and I I don't remember. You're talking about eight total homes,

right? That are probably going to have six to eight trips and a trip is one when you leave. That's a trip, right? It's not it's not up and back. It's you leave and then you come back. I think the concern was for the residents pulling out into major traffic. And at one point during the zoning meeting, you all talked about um that it would be a big deal to have the utilities come in. You talked about this. It would be a big deal to have the utility come in and and move something so that the traffic could be better. Do you recall what that was about?

Um I think we were talking in the context of Why did Groster not connect in at the roundabout or something like that? And everybody was it about the utility hut that's there that big Cincinnati Bell kind of building you were talking utility people didn't want to move that. Yes. Correct. Which is sort of what drove the placement of the roundabout and why it's where it's at because at the time that the county was exploring that that was close to $2 million just to move that that fiber optic hut. So obviously they don't want I mean obviously the priority always has to be safety. Yes.

The last thing you want is somebody pulling out of a street and getting hit. Okay. Um and these people can speak more intelligently to the traffic than I can. The density sucks. I I can't believe we're going to these smaller and smaller homes in that township. There's absolutely no consideration for the people. It's all about the money. It's all about the bucks. Okay? And these are the people paying the taxes. And then and you guys got to stop putting all this commercial ahead of the people. You heard it with the group earlier. You you none of it gets through your heads when it comes time next time for folks to vote. Boy, you better believe they're going to remember all these things that have been approved that have created nothing but havoc in the township. Everybody wants profit. Speaking of which, can somebody tell me how the tiff for this particular property will work?

I'm just going to reference one thing. I believe this this entire board has not had a multif family project or high density project through that this board has approved. Uh so I I think we hear you ma'am. But yeah, question on to Mr. Please. Sure. So the property on the corner there's a there's basically about a 9 acre tiff. The school district's made whole out of that. It's a full compensation agreement. So the schools jointificational those folks get to collect it's somewhere on the order of Mr. Campbell was likeif somewhere between 53 and 55%. It varies based on the reduction factor every year that resets when they do that.

I'm sorry Mr. Right. I know you're explaining this, but I'd like to understand in layman's terms. Sure. So the so the tiff does not abate any property tax. The tiff people who are in tiffs, right? They pay a small chunk of regular property tax and then they make a pi pilot payment. It's a payment in lie of taxes equivalent to what the taxes would have been, right? But for the tiff then. And so instead of the money getting carved up 40 or 50 different way or whatever it is, the pie with lots of little slices, the pie comes to the township and the biggest slice goes to the school district and they continue to receive that. Is that for 30 years?

Yes. They continue to receive their money. Yes. And then the remainder which is about 42 to 45%ish and we actually send some to the joint vocational district as well. Correct. Great oaks because we have to. Right. Um and then the remainder of that the township retains and we can use that for infrastructure safety services which predominantly is what we use. We use it for safety services. Which properties does the tiff apply to? Uh it the there's only a tiff on the four the four acres and then the Bunnel Hill project to the north of it. We we would we would not tiff the residential parcels.

Okay. And what was the prior agreement with the school before it became renegotiated as part of the tip there? Well, there wasn't one. I thought there was one in December. No, no, that No, this How much how much money will the school be getting? They get made whole. They get every dollar that they would have gotten whether the tiff exists or not. Okay, good. That's that's that's that helps me understand it better. The school's annual budget's like 125 million a year, right? Our our budget that we actually operate off of is about 40 million a year. So when we talk about taxes, it's a lot of the inefficiencies of the efficiencies, however you want to look at it because we very efficiently run operations here. Mr. Wright, I think important to the taxpayers,

they see a reduction factor. Yeah. On their property tax.

Yes. So the same tiff, it gives you a reduction factor. That helps me understand that portion a little better. when developers do that and they property value on the tips within the township at least for the residents inside. The bottom line, the development is not thinking about the residents. You've been told that I don't know how many times tonight by myself, this group, the prior group. And at what point do we stop? When are we going to run out of when are we going to run out of land? Because all we're doing is creating pollution. Every time you dig up, excavate, build, knock down all these trees, okay, you've got more noise pollution, more air pollution, more land pollution, which Mr. Becker knows exceptionally well, okay, how are we going to deal with all that? Because when you when you look at statistics put up by the American Lung Association, we are really in a bad spot in Cincinnati and the suburbs because of the overgrowth. Okay? How are we going to deal with all of the issues we're creating that will affect your children or grandchildren? There's got to be more thought to these developments than just the money, than just the developers needs. Okay? There's got to be thought to the people paying these taxes. Nobody's totally against development. They're against overdevelopment. They're against stupid development. They're against misdevelopment in the name of money because they take pride in their town. They take pride in their homes. They're very sad and very disappointed that they're constantly talked over and voted over. That has to stop

because you guys won't be here anymore. Okay? And maybe you don't want to be here anymore, but you're screwing these people's lives. As far as I'm concerned, they should be paid compensation for the crap they're going to have to put up with in terms of traffic and noise and construction. Okay? There should be an impact fee for the residents because they don't even know how much their property is going to be worth when it's all done. Exactly.

Okay. So, again, I'm not from here. I can't totally speak intelligently. I can speak passionately because I've lived here for 34 years and I'm sick and tired of development. I love development. I love homes. There's a way to do them. There's a way not to do them. But you put your residents first, not your builders. Capich, thank you for the support.

Why we have this new board. Thank you. So, so for so everyone knows, um, I get paid $26,000 a year to set up here per year. Okay. 26,000. That's what each one of us get paid. Uh, Mr. Campbell, I think, is at 35 or 37 being the fiscal officer. Um, so, and and every we've been in we're going on four and a half years of being up here, and I get it. Somebody's got to blame for something. We're the face of the township. We're the ones that sit up here. We're we're the ones that are elected. So, I get it. But I will say in the four I want to say four and a half years that we've been in this office. M still we have turned down every single multif family that's come across this desk. What you're seeing now is what was voted on by the previous board before four and a half years ago. The problem is construction and everything took a long time to get the ball rolling. It's already approved. We didn't we did not approve it just so you all know. Uh and as far as money in township, John Becker, Joe Dills, Michael, we get paid 26,000 roughly a year to do this job. Um there's So, but um I've approved residential homes which are needed, but as far as apartments and multif family, the answer is no. As a matter of fact, few months ago, we turned out a $40 million investment for senior retirement homes to be put in here over across the street, Mount Carmel behind uh the the new chicken place. We shot it down, Miss We shot it down $40 million. We shot it down because the residents overwhelmingly said, "Everyone's mad about Doug Evans. We didn't build anything on Doug Evans new property behind Terrace Ridge. Guys, I know you want to blame us, but you're all like, it's not like I'm rolling out of your money bags whether this gets approved or not. It's not like I'm So, I'm just trying to say, hey, every malt and by the way, this property, the 5acre property, you can ask Mr. Wright. We've made it crystal clear. We've made a lot of developers very angry because you know what they want to put there on that 5acre site? They want to put more apartments. And we said, Mr. Wright, not now, not ever. We're not doing it. So, you would not believe the amount of

apartments that wanted to come by this board to be voted on. We would have shot it down. I said, "I want a restaurant, a restaurant bar type of thing, like a nice like a little Miami brewery type of restaurant to go there." Something like that. No apartments. You have no idea how many apartment developers wanted to come in and steal that 5acre site and buy it off the township. And we've said no, no, no, we're not doing it. For what it's worth, um I know the problem is the development that's been voted on that has been before this board. It's not us. I'm not But I get it. We're the face and you you got to put blame somewhere. I get it. Every multif family has been shot down. We voted zero and none on this board. So I I don't know how to say it. Um but I get it. I If you want to run for office in three and a half years, that's okay. 26,000 a year to do this. So um I'm not I'm not making money, guys. I'm not. So but uh All right. Uh is there anyone else that would like to speak on? Please, miss. Go ahead. Yeah. All right. Please. Same thing. I got to swear you in.

All right. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth? Nothing but the truth. Sophie God. I do. Please state your name and address for the record. Okay. I'm Connie Merrill and I work or I work I live at 975 Drive. Thank you.

Um I did send a letter to the three trustees in the email. Okay. That's what I was going to ask you. I know Mr. Becker responded, but I didn't hear from you too. So I write copies just in case. Um I I'm I'm assuming you read it. Um our concern on Burggo is the retail space that they want to put right there at the corner. They also said there would be um uh offices on top and 100 plus parking lot behind the building. So, that traffic's going to be going behind that building uh onto Burboin and by Carolyn's home, which she's right. She'll never get out again if it happens. Um I don't think that's a good use. I I don't think that makes any sense. And um in the letter I I try to explain that I feel like Burggo's become an island. There's no gradual change in density between Burggo and anything around it anymore. It's just nice halfacre lot single family road and then in the middle of an urban area. I won't sit here and read the letter again, but I just really hope that I would rather see homes there. I would rather see the homes that they're against by their area there than I would the retail with all the offices on top. Mainly because of traffic.

That's really all I have to say. You do have a question. Thank you, Miss V, very much. Appreciate you. Okay. Thank you. Would anyone else like to speak tonight? Yes, miss. Come on up, please. Question. Yeah, you got to come on up. I got to swear you in. It's public hearing. Apologies. Okay. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth? Nothing but the truth. So, I'll help you be God. I do. Great. Please state your name and address for the record. Pam Bullan, 4286 Laura Lane. My question is how many residents have come to our area between Echelon, the unions, all the apartment buildings that have been built. What what will be the final total number of residents?

Off the top of my head, please. Uh I think there's 88 187 188 in echelon. There's about 130 in Gentry, 262 in Union Commons, 120ish in the senior portion. I'm just doing math in my head. Sorry. So, that totaled what? 8 Yeah, I mean something units. Um,

times how what's the number of people that can live in each unit? I mean the the dwelling unit I mean the household size is much lower in the in the attached stuff for sure. It's a lot of singles, a lot of twos, two bedroom. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just saying like it's a lot of single people or a lot of ones and twos. Two cup like a couple be more. Yes. Yeah. I mean you could have more two vehicles per unit

sometimes. They usually park them at about 1.3 to 1.4 four parking spaces per unit because a lot of people who rent are singles. So they they have a lower parking threshold than like what you would see for for a meer. Like Meyer goes in our minimum standard is five spaces per thousand square feet. They're going to build seven or eight per thousand square feet. Uh a lot of the apartment complexes will go in the one and a quarter to one and a 1.4 four parking spaces per unit because not because a lot of those units are either single occupants, a lot of them are single occupants. Um, so 1,600 vehicles.

Yeah. I I mean I just I had I was just ripping them off in my head, you know. And then how much how much of that those units are affordable living? So only uh the Union Common site? The Union Common site? Yeah. And and again, there's somebody talked about section 8. There's no section 8. It's a it's affordable. It's a low Yeah, it's basically it's a LITC product and it reserves the rents. I think I did some research for one of the board members. The rents are actually comparable. Yeah, they're actually comparable to other stuff. It just reserves them for income band.

Um and then the seniors, I think they have to make less. The seniors have to make less than what the workforce is or whatever. That's the only part. The rest of this stuff's going to be $2, $220 a square foot. Probably the stuff over off of Bach Buckston. Super high-end stuff. The stuff next to it, $1.70,$180 a square foot, higher than Echelon. Gentry is lower than Echelon. Echelon is right on par with these other things. So, you know, most of it. And then the other thing that was something brought up in the hearing was traffic split at the roundabout. Everybody thinks everything's going to dump to the roundabout. The site actually is split 5050. Half of it goes to Bach Bucks.

Talking about the high school site. So half of it goes to Bach Buckston. I remember that. Doesn't it that the two shall never meet. It's closed. Yep. And unless they walk. They can get through there if they walk, but they can't drive. So I think the chief might be able to figure out an emergency access path through there if we needed to. But it's not you you're splitting traffic. So you got half of it going this way. A good idea. So yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's all I wanted to know. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Thank you. Is there anyone else that like to speak on the zoning case? Can I one more short thing?

Sure. Miss, you got to come back up to the podium. I already swore you in so I don't have to swear you back in. Make sure she restates your name. Just just do do me a solid. Can can you state your name and address for the record again? Okay. Carolyn Lton Sllayer, 960 Broorn Drive. And I would like to say I don't think Union Township needs any more retail. I have seen everything from Steinbergs to Bigs to every restaurant under this godson come and go. I don't think East Skate Mall was ever a huge success. And right now you've got the shops at Kennedy Landing right across from where they want to put more retail and it's never been good. Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Appreciate it. I just want some clarification. Mr. Gibbs, just go and state your name and address for the record again. Tyler Gibbs, 4026 Buck Bucks Road. Um, some clarification on the homes since I don't I didn't see that map somewhere. Are the homes facing um Glensteville? They they are. Yes, sir. And there's going to be tied to the sidewalks that get down to all the shops and the Sams and um rear entry garages. Yes. So, you come in from the rear is where you park your car, but the front of the houses will be facing

there. There's been some comments, and again, I'm not the developer, so don't jump on me, but um I have been in their shoes, so I will I will make that statement. There's been some comments tonight about traffic. Great. Thank you. Um right there.

Yep. Got it. So, there's been some comments tonight about traffic. Um I went to Glenasti High School. I grew up in this area. I grew up on Beachwood Road near the Pepper Ridge stuff. I went to Glenn Estie. I don't think you can get worse traffic than Glen Estie High School. It was awful. You had to leave at 6:30 in the morning to get to school on time. And so what we've done there is great in my opinion. Um there's there's flow through there now. It just flows. Roundabouts are great. Um and so and then the idea of devaluing property taxes. I don't think anybody in here has a home that they bought even 5 years ago that's worth less than what it is now. Um, and so those are the comments that it's like I never really understood that argument because Union Township, we used to be able to buy houses on Summerside Road for $50,000 that are selling for $300,000 now. And we're talking in the last 10 years. And so this idea that it devalues property tax, I just don't think there's much merit or facts to that. Township property values are are skyrocketing. And so I don't think the four or $500,000 houses are um are out of line. Um you go down Weedboard and you go down what is that? Larma, which again, Weedold was another entrance for Glennest High School. So there was constant traffic, not neighborhood traffic now that it has now. was there was through traffic from there all the way to Cluff Pike. It was my shortcut to not have to go past the helicopter park. And so this plan, I think, solved some of the issues we had 10 or 15 years ago. Um, and so again, I understand I I don't live in high density anymore. I moved out. I understand some of the concerns, but there's also a risk with living in high density areas. At one time, Larma and Weeble was probably a high density

development for it time. you know what I mean? And so, um, so some of the comments tonight, I just think we can work on understanding some of that, you know, and again, the traffic flow through this area is better than I've ever seen in my in my 31 years of living in this township. This traffic flow is better than ever before. So, I'm sorry to be the bad news here, but appreciate you. Thank you. Any questions for you? No, I think we're okay. Thank you. Okay. Is there anyone else that'd like to speak on this case tonight?

Okay. Seeing none, as kind of a history, I always the developers, would you like to make any comments at all before we close it out to address anything? Okay. I already swore you, but just go and state your name and address for the record. Were you going to do this again? No, no, I don't swear. You're good. I'm I'm just happy to uh as we did at the planning commission meeting, I'm happy to stay after the meeting to talk to anybody. Uh I do I do have some plans here. The thing same things that we're going to be up there. Yeah. Uh if anyone would like a better understanding of what we're doing. Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Okay. No further comment. Okay. Gentlemen, I will entertain a motion to uh where we at here. Hold on. Where's my There it is. Uh to close public hearing. So move. Second. Okay. Mr. Camp, roll call. Mr. Becker? Yes.

Mr. Lo? Yes. Mr. Dills? Yes. We're We're out of the public session at 9:18 p.m. Okay. All right. Please, Mr. Mr. Jills, I was going to ask Lisa if she can try to bring that up again to get it on the stream at least for the video for the next case. So, okay. Maybe this reset. Maybe it cooled off or something. I don't know. I got Folks, you have my word that this won't happen again. We'll get it fixed before our next next meeting. Oh, yeah. Um, okay. Uh, tradition, Mr. Vice Chair, any any comments or questions, sir? Open to the board of trustees.

Yes, chairman. So, been listening intently to the concerns of the residents, what the developers have in mind. At the same time, looking through the materials, kind of refreshing staff report and and and the maps and such, refreshing all this in my mind. I had concerns from the beginning with this project. Um, you know, we, you know, I'm hearing from the residents legitimate concerns about, you know, some public safety issues. I've, as as I've made clear repeatedly the five years I've been on this board and running for the office before that, I hate high density housing. I just always have. And, you know, I'm seeing 30 to 35 foot width lots. uh the setbacks of five feet on each side, a density of six and a half units per acre. Um and I know there's three sections here. Some of this of course is is commercial, some of this residential and and you know as a package here. Um I I have concerns and frankly um I share the concerns of the residents. I don't like it. That concludes my remarks.

What about the commercial part of it? I have less concern about the commercial part of it. If this were broken into, you know, three different sections, I might be inclined to vote for one or two of them. Uh the residential part is what gives me the most heartburn. Mr. L. Sure. John, did you have any recommendations that you wanted to change or add or it's just you don't like it and that's it?

Well, I I think the this is project's gone pretty far down the road to make any major modifications to this. Uh, you know, if you're referring to any tweaks of some sort to make it palatable? No. All right. Are there anything with the project that you need changed, Joe? Well, I'll hear your opinion on stuff first. That's fine.

I out out of out of what I've heard this evening, um there's not something that clearly identifies to me where where there's a request or change to be to be made to it. So um I know there's uh the recommendation uh for the approval with the further modified by the zoning commission approve with additional um I don't think there is any additional or subsequent modifications. So I don't I didn't hear any am I missing anything? Is there not any that is an area of the township that is dense? Uh we heard a lot of great feedback from community throughout. Uh I've said this and I've repeated this many times. Um, from looking listening to residents and through and through, um, one person always gave me really good perspective on the 29 square miles of Union Township, uh, was talking with the executive director of the nature center and what are things that are impacts to green thoroughares, different areas throughout the 29 square miles and areas where infrastructure is at. Now, obviously, this is an applicant that has property um right where $22 million of Ohio Department of Transportation funds that went into planning 15, 20 years ago to make an improvement um through the infrastructure uh laid out and that is an area of the township that is dense. probably was dense for its surroundings 20 years ago and furtherance of that today. But I mean for single family homes um it's not it's not what you said

earlier. This is an applicant bringing forward 500 apartment buildings. So yeah, I I don't think I've heard something that that that moves me from a straightforward approval and I don't hear anything from Mr. tracker that moves any um analysis on that. So,

first off, uh folks, we're going on 9:30 and uh I appreciate everyone sticking it out, being here, expressing your concerns. Uh I really do. You're passion. It's your property. I get it. Um builders, you both came in from I think you said St. Louis. Appreciate you all coming out here tonight and stating your case and want to come in as well. very much the uh um took took notes as everyone was talking. Um just as a confession I've got a terrible headache so if I off apologies. Um okay so the traffic concern backing out of your driveway uh potentially restaurant serving alcohol uh overdevelopment uh heard about 24 20 foot buffer um park activities. Um, okay. And then as far as what it brings, residential homes, the two I'm going to just say two. The two the two commercial lots across the street from each other. Um, ice cream hotel, restaurants. Um, as far as commercial, uh, I'll tell you, I mean, I I I think I've said this since since since since day one, uh, that, uh, I wanted a, um, I really want a a nice, you know, I I envisioned a nonfranchise style restaurant coming to Union Township, especially the Eastgate corridor, u, not necessarily down of Beachmont. Uh, and I think you know what I mean, with like a non-Apple Bezies or Charlie's type of restaurant. And so, um, and I think we've been waiting and waiting and waiting. We've tried to partner and and finally we got a partner to do that. So, the commercial side, I I really like to see a nice, you know, sit-down non-franchise style restaurant to come in. Um, and obviously when there's a hotel that comes in, um, folks those folks will shop and they'll spend their money here. Uh, I like the commercial on both sides and I and I I live in Eastgate. Unless I go to UDF, there's no graders anywhere. I got to go to

Anderson and so there's so uh if you could try to poach a graders if you know what greater is if you don't know what it is you got to go try it out. Um so so I like the commercial side as far as the residential that sounds like the biggest concern. Mr. Becker I'll say this now may maybe I'm wrong but my I cite my source so you can check double check me on this but I'm on Zillow right now and I'm doing a a search for houses $550,000 and less three bedrooms two baths family house no basement. So, if it has a basement, doesn't have a basement, qualifies for my search. I'm showing four four. One's 399 grand, one's 540, one's 375, one's 495. Four houses in the entire Union Town. Now, there's some out in Amelia, there's some out in Battavia Township, but I'm looking at strictly Union. Four houses, folks. Four that are available. And that's it. Under 550,000, which means 100 thou $50,000 house up to a 550 3bedroom, two bath. That's my search. I found four. So, um, and I mean, Mr. Becker, I I'm I'm with you on the on the apartments. We have to Miss Bill's point, we have we have voted on every multif family that's come across our desk. But, I mean, sir, we we need single family residential homes. We do. And, uh, um, I I found four. So, I think there's definitely a need. Um, and I'll tell you, you know, the goal is we would like to make that Glenn Estie Withersville corridor, that Sshape from the from the Veterans Park. You can walk your dog there, spend family time there. And we want to make it kind of like a um Liberty Town Center, a Deerfield Town Center type of and also more of like a downtown Milford downtown Leland type of right there. I mean, we we have to Echelon was already here before we took office. Uh same with the other apartment complex next to him, the luxury one. So, I mean, it's single family residential homes. I mean, and I

don't you're not going to get riffraff buying a Ford a $500,000 house. You're just not um I think you you need to make middle class income to afford a half a million dollar piece of property. I don't think it's going to be riffraff. Uh not like what you see over in Union Commons, which by the way, we did not vote for. Um, but uh, we we need more houses in Union Township. We do. We don't need more apartments. I'm with y'all. Um, and you got a developer wanting to come in. They they they knocked it down. I And by the way, just as a side note, I'm going to say it again. May maybe they're having an off night. I'll give them a pass. I've had many off nights. I feel like I'm having one tonight. Our zoning commission board, they're fantastic guys. I I mean, they they're basically volunteers that do this. They care. Um, I I think they absolutely care. um and and they have voted certain ways and we've went against them a couple times, but I think their hearts are absolutely in the right place. I I I um so for what it's worth, but they voted unanimously to prove this. I agree with them and and we need single family houses in in our township. We do. Um so I'm I'm I'm okay with it. And and the fact that they knocked off two from 17 to it's 15 homes. It's not like it's a it's a Fiser home or Dre development. It's 15 homes. Um

so So on hold on miss so we we closed public comments unfortunat I'm sorry I I so I I well I was I was actually going to make a point to chairman or ask the question mind you it was single family homes in place at this location and this being essentially replaced with single family homes right I mean that's how I see it single family homes for single family homes I wish this was up. It's going to But I I've seen I've seen the drawings. They're beautiful. It's going to look kind of like more of a like a downtown New Town like on Church Street.

Church Street. The homes are um they're absolutely beautiful. I mean, you don't buy a half million dollar piece of property not be pretty. So, working. Um but Okay. Okay. So, I'm good. Is this it? Hold on. It's okay. It's all right. All right. So, um any more Mr. Becker? Any more discussion? Okay, Mr. Look. No, I'm I'm good. I'm definitely good. Okay. All right. Uh and we've already closed it. So, I'll entertain a motion to approve. Correct. Yes. Okay. Uh gentlemen, I'll intend a motion for to approve Union Township zoning case 2-26-Z and Zulu with the recommendations uh for the zoning board. So, move second. Any further discussion? Mr. Campbell, roll call.

Mr. Burgerer, no. Mr. Mr. Lo. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries. Okay. Second public hearing is Union Township Representing Case 2-3-Z and Zulu a plan develop major amendment. Uh Mr. Wright, do the best you can without public.

Sure. Uh so this is an application for a major amendment on behalf of uh UDF submitted by K4 architects. This is going to be at the uh adjacent to uh just north of the provision living site uh right at the new roundabout on the Bach Bucks inside. I wish I had a picture. It looks just like maybe Lisa can get it up for 30 seconds or less for people to see the rendering of that. Uh it looks like all the new UDFs, high quality building, high quality design. The board's been provided that. Um kind of I'm a big picture worth a thousand words kind of guy. Um but uh basically they they've uh they've put together a plan for this. It's a 5 acre commercial track that was designated specifically for commercial. Uh in that uh there are several uh conditions. These are more very technical recommendations that we provided because this is a commercial property and I had a chance to get kind of down in the weeds on it. Uh so we get it right. Um, it's consistent with Delany's plan, consistent with the zoning. It's not adjacent to any residential. Uh, maybe she'll be able to um Can you switch to the other presentation, Lisa?

The He's got them. There's two different PowerPoints. Sorry.

So, uh, in any event, um, she'll find it. Maybe she'll get it up again for like 30 seconds or whatever. Uh, but looking at this, you know, it meets the PD district requirements. Um it meets the recommendations of the comp plan. The site is located in the central retail corridor. Uh it is retail. It's supportive of sort of the infrastructure in that area. Uh it will have some adjacency to a shared use uh walking path which you know kind of cool. You'll be able to walk go get ice cream or whatever. Uh it'll also have a eight uh fuel center uh bay fuel center there. Dark sky compliant lighting. uh kind of all the particulars of the high quality development standards that we have for this project. So, good use doesn't really impact anybody. Background traffic's probably 18 to 20,000 cars a day and growing in this area. The county and township are partnering uh with on a 12 million shared use path two and everybody hates roundabouts. They actually work. to roundabouts to alleviate congestion at Shaylor and the 90 degree bend. That will be a significant improvement in safety and this project will access off of that. There'll be an additional commercial lot in the back of this parcel. Uh they have yet to determine who is going to be there, but I believe UDF is going to own that parcel. And again, if you know anything about their facilities, first class highass facilities, not just not related to this case whatsoever, they're actively working with us to reposition the former Glenste UDF

by lawyers who have some high stakes. They're for uh they're uh redoing the uh former UDF, the corner of what is that? Eastgate South. And it's going to be a much better looking building than currently there. And I'm really proud of the fact that these guys really dig in and do a nice job on not only, you know, maintaining a commitment in the community, but also investing, I believe, what they'll tell you what the total investment on this is. But, uh, if they get an opportunity to speak. So, that concludes my report. And, uh, ba, basically, it's, uh, if you've been to Miami Township, Branch Hill,

Wolf Wolf, right by the high school, it's going to look very similar. Well, actually, I'll let I'll let them explain. Yeah, we should have a visual, but it's a real pretty It'll look a lot like if anybody's been at Branch Hill Love in Miamiville, uh if they've been down in Milford, River's Edge, that new store, uh you indicated the Wolfpen store, it'll be very, very similar and meet their new brand standard, improved design, very open and airy stores. I mean, so um don't want to steal their thunder on the presentation. I really wish we could put the graphic up on the PowerPoint, but it is not cooperating tonight. And I think we have we have that horse is out of the barn, so to speak. So, Mr. Beckerty Bush from Mr.

What did you say is going on with the the old uh UDS that closed? They're repositioning it. They're going to subdivide it into a two tenant space to put I believe they're looking at fast casual restaurants in there. They'll be doing some facade renovations, kind of redecorating, modernizing the building, sidewalks, landscaping, the whole nine yards. So again, by virtue of them leaving at a little bit of, you know, delay with the road project, now they're going to reinvest in that facility plus make another investment on box. Okay. Two commercial tenants. Correct. Two, correct? Yes, sir. Yes. Two two commercial tenants.

Not multif family. Yeah. Any more questions, Mr. Rick? Look out for you. Any more questions, Mr. Right. Okay. All right, gentlemen. Uh, I will entertain a motion to open public hearing match zoning case 2-3-ZU plan develop major matter. So move. Second. All right. Mr. Campbell, roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Luke. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. We're opening the public hearing at 9:35 p.m. Okay. Uh, so first, usually the developer comes up or anyone that's a proponent of this case, come on up and then I got to square you in. All right. Would you raise your right hand? You swear to tell the truth. The whole truth on the above the true self. You got I do. And then go state your name and address for the record.

John Lucas with K4 Architecture 555 Guest Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. 45. You said John Lewis. John Lucas. Lucas. Please. So we're working we work with UDF on all their projects. This project will be identical to Amelia except for the building be flipped. The patio will be on the opposite side. Okay. Um, so they are looking to use this location to replace the Glenestie store they lost due to rightway take from the pro road project at 32. And then the back, they haven't decided what they're going to develop back there, but the overall development for the site, it cost them about $10 million. That's about what you have to put into

building a new store there. and we don't have any issues with the conditions that staff had sent us. Uh, regarding light lighting stuff, we'll work through that and the signage with staff along with the connections to the path. UDF is I've never seen it with other developers I've worked with myself, but they do more with their neighbors and taking care of making sure everything's good usually. Fantastic. Mr. Beer, any questions? Yeah. So, in the in the Cincinnati area, as far as um I guess the the number the square footage of of the UDFs and and the the fuel pumps, how how does this uh compare? Is it I I guess kind kind of in sync with the newer ones or or is it bigger or

This is in sync with the newer ones. The older ones are anywhere from 3,200 to maybe up to 4500 square feet total. The newer ones are a little over six. They're like 6,500. And that's because they have other offerings that they're doing. They're doing more food offerings in the stores. Um, as well as more product offerings that that they do in the stores. And how many square feet this one? Uh, it's around 6,500. Okay. So, this is this is pretty much the biggest UDF makes. Yeah. The biggest one we've they've done is 7,500 and that was over at Crescentville and Mostellar, but that has a diesel fueling with it as well.

Great. Thank you. That's all I have. Chair M. Um, you've got, so you're the architect. I see that with K4 and then it's UD playing with United Air Farms. He's the head of real estate and construction. Okay. Okay. Uh, yeah. No, really, really like the product that you guys bring. It's the new store model. Uh, appreciate that. I know that. Um, uh, yeah, it's it's a really really good quality product that h happy to be able to have. So, thank you, Mr. L. Appreciate being here. Yeah, good job. Thank you. appreciate you. I apologize your PowerPoint isn't working here. I'm sorry. Yeah. Is there anyone else like to speak that is a speak on this as a proponent? Oh, please. I do got two different cases. I got to swear you in. Do I do this? Okay.

All right. Do you still tell the truth? Call truth. Tell me about the true stuff we got. Yes. Great. And state your name and address for the record. David Bailis 2 Green Bryer Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63124. Uh I believe you made the con connection uh as the owner of Provision Living, which is the neighbor to this property. uh we're in uh our residents, our staff, uh everybody is in full support of uh of this application and I hope you uh all consider it accordingly. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. Anyone else that is a proponent for this case, please come on up, sir. Same thing. You know the drill now. All right. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and the truth be God?

I do. Sitler, 4316 Lane. Um I like UDF. I like graders. I like when I can walk to get my ice cream. Um, so I'm really happy about this. I'm happy it's not at buggies. So yeah, that's all. I'm happy about this. Yeah, I just put I just put two two together. I was talking about graders and they got UDF guys sitting here. So sorry, apologies. Did I hear somebody a buck? Are we going to get a buck? I mean, I know I know you have an affinity for great house. I'll save that for board comments. Any anyone else like to speak on this that's for it? Okay. How about anybody that's against it? Anyone at all? Okay. Okay. Seeing none, gentlemen, I'll entertain a motion to close public hearing. So moved. Second.

Mr. G. Roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Dills or Mr. Lo? Yes. Sorry. Mr. Dills. Yes. Close the public hearing at 9:40 p.m. Okay. And then uh gentlemen, comments open for the board. Uh Mr. Baron Becker.

I I like it. I've heard no opposition uh from from the public. uh which kind of surprises me. There's always somebody that's got u uh concerns and uh you know which which of course I'm I'm always willing to listen to. Uh didn't hear any concerns. Uh I I like the idea of it going in and uh I mean I'm not walking distance from getting ice cream, but uh I'm looking forward to it.

Uh yeah, no, I'm supportive of it. Um it it he he mentioned graders earlier so I'm just going to call it out. You've got enough for graders. You love graders. You brought it up before and we've talked about multif family and in the that corridor that we just had the last project on. It was it was a question in my mind if we had the leveling station type of concept that I've heard you say you would be supportive of with like a graders in it. Is that kind of a no-go at this point because of the multif family? I just want to get like the sense of of of of your dynamic on that.

Sure. So, Mr. lo I I what I'd be willing to support in terms of uh multif family or high density would be I I guess similar to the Lovelin station area where you have you know in essence you have a building and lower part of that building at street level is retail office space what have you above there the second third, fourth story, whatever. Yeah. Would be apartments, condos, whatever. I could see supporting something of that nature.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. All right. I had that as a burning question from the last one and then when the gentleman's came up and talked about graders and everything else, I was like, okay, I've got to ask. Um, no, I think this is a great great value uh project. um just took the family of five to ice cream at UDF the other night and I only really share or say it and Johnny should appreciate this though, but it was like jaw-dropping because I was like, "Oh, wow. I just was able to buy like ice cream for the whole family for under $20." Uh things are expensive, right? And I was like, "You're probably going to tell me where I could save more money there." But um but he's he has this thing. He he's got the best deals around township. But um yeah, I mean it's a it's it's we really we enjoy it. The kids really enjoy it. So it's a great project and happy to move forward with it.

Mr. Lucas, one question. You know, you have to stand up. Uh ballpark if assuming it passes. When are you going to be breaking ground? Ballpark. Fall. Fall. This fall. Fantastic. All right. Uh it's all I got. Um I think you're going to kill it. It's be just fine. I think it's going to do very well in the in the township. Uh gentlemen, I entertain a motion to approve zoning case zoning case 2-3- the PD major amendment. So move. Uh and they're aware of the staff recommendations items 1 through 11 with recommendations. There we go. And then uh any further discussion? Mr. Camp roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Logan. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries.

All right. Congratulations to both of you. You're more than welcome to stick around or you can take off. Either way. Yeah. Thanks guys. Appreciate you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you guys. Okay. Uh no old business. Moving on to new business. Our consent agenda. Uh gentlemen, I entertain a motion for our consent agenda. The approval of minutes from March 10th 26 regular meeting minutes. March 10th 26 zoning meeting minutes. The approval of payments as prepared by our fiscal c officer Ron Campbell. And approval of our monthly financial reports as prepared by our fiscal officer Ron Campbell. So move. Mr. Mr. Lo, would you care to second that? Um, second. Okay. Uh, Mr. G, roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lo. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries.

It's getting It's getting late. Yeah. Just uh just a No, no, go ahead. Go ahead. Under the motion agenda, I just noticed that we uh we had a late minute ad to just do some housekeeping on the jet appointments and apparently the board didn't get the updated copy in their packets. You want to do it now? No, I'll just we can add it as a point order or whatever. Add it make we have to make a motion to add it to the agenda. You want to do it right now? No, go ahead. I didn't want to interrupt. Oh, just Okay. Do you want to add the agenda ones when you guys already do the consent agenda? We did. Okay. Okay. So, now we're in the motion agenda. Correct. Okay. So, we can do the purchase orders and then I'll need what's the correct Robert's rules order, Mr. Becker,

right? To we you're like the parliamentarian. That scares me. We do a motion to amend the agenda to add Jed appointments for Jed 1 and Jed 2. Uh, sure. That sounds good. Okay. We'll do that when we get there. All right. All right. Uh,

okay. Approval of purchase order exceeding $15,000. Mr. Wright will throw it over to you, sir. Yes, sir. Uh so, um regarding purchase orders, I got a whole laundry list of them for the board this evening. Uh two pages, two separate action items. I'll read the first one first or the last one first. Uh National Shot Creek LLC uh in the amount of $227,14 the Terrace Ridge SID fund custodian culbert lining project. Uh that is a separate item of consideration. And then the second list I have is the first one is Kevin Carpenter uh for $25,000 for nuisance abatement at 851 Meadow Ridge. Uh that's an admin zoning PO. The second is the ANA safety for our portion of a joint pedestrian walkway relocation project uh along Glennesty in the vicinity of CL Veterans Park uh for RFBS three total. Total amount $25,000. Uh third is the echelon by 360 and the rest of these a lot of these are tiff payments. Echelon by 360 phase 2 echelon payment 38,90725. Uh next one is the Milford board of education first half tiff settlement payment in the amount of a million59,55928. The next one is to echelon 360 for the first half settlement for phase one of echelon 4792379. The next is to Stephen K. Malink for a first half tiff settlement to Malink Industries for $18,13910. The next item is to Redwood Living for developer agreement in the amount of $105,646.96. Uh and that's related to Redwood's uh Savannah is it Savannah Ridge off of Bach Buckston. The next is uh Tealtown Te Claremont Northeast I'm sorry

Claremont Northeastern local schools in the amount of 60,87942 and that's a tiff settlement. Pavia schools tiff settlement 3246291. West Claremont schools first half tiff settlement 2,286,19583. The next is to uh Great Oaks. Their first half tiff settlement 57,11726. Next item of business is Beachmont Ford for a staff vehicle. Uh this is for the fire department in the amount of $57,467. This is going to basically replace a staff vehicle that was totaled out in an unfortunate incident. We're still working on the insurance settlement right now u with the insurance company. Correct. Yes, sir. So, we'll have that wrapped up in the next 30 days or so. Uh, and that's the amount of 57,467. Uh, and that is a F250. Correct, sir?

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Uh, the next item of business is to Striker Sales Corporation. This is for we're basically migrating our our Striker stuff where we'll go out. I think we spend about $160ish,000 a year just replacing things on an on a wearout type basis. Our cardiac monitors are all at the end of their useful life in our medic units. If one goes out, we can't have that. The technology is not the same. We're basically going to migrate this over to a similar type of um uh we'll call it like an equipment lease similar to the tasers, similar to bodywn cameras, similar to those kind of things which we're basically going to absorb, you know, all of the existing cost plus unforeseen costs when the stair chairs break, when the easy load cuts CS break or, you know, god forbid that we lose a couple cardiac monitors because they're How old are they, Chief?

Uh between 12 8 to 8 to 12 years old. 8 to 12 years old. So if we lose one of those and they don't make that technology anymore. So if we we're looking at about what 60 to $70,000 a pop for one brand new correct for Yeah. For one. So this will allow us to spread that over a fiveyear term and at the end of the five years we would own that equipment. Is that correct? We have the option.

We have the option to do it or to enter into another agreement. So, um, so this is kind of a shift from panicking at one time, you know, big-time expenditures to budgeting and making sure that our crews have the best equipment. Next item of business is for 4024 McMahon Road in the amount of $26,200 uh to RL Spencer Roofing LLC. This is a coding to prolong the roof at Veterans uh or not at at the bus garage. Sorry, I'm I'm moving that direction. The last is veterans patio uh preparation at Veterans Park. This is a nature or nature works grant. This is a 75% reimbursement grant grant. Uh the total amount of the PO is $56,670. So we'll get 75,000 back up to about 38 or $39,000 in total cost. So we're getting a whole huge kind of redone patio area down by the park pavilion shelter in the pond. So that concludes the two different purchase order list.

Great. Any questions for Mr. Ray? Okay. Seeing none, uh, gentlemen, I'll entertain a motion to approve the purchase orders as prepared by Mr. Ray. So move. Uh, I do have one question for you, Mr. Right. These are broken out. Yes, I would would we would consider the the the list separately. Two separate lists. point which so which your motion is to approve what requisitions. Well, uh let's just do this. I'm going to the national shot. I'm not even going to talk about it. Well, I'll just make one just for that one specifically. Yes, sir. Just All right. So, so gentlemen, I entertain a motion to approve the purchase order exceeding $15,000 recommended by Mr. Ray. So, move second.

Okay. Mr. Camp, roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lo, pull that one out separate. Yes, M. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries. All right, gentlemen. Entertain a motion to for the approval of purchase order of $227,14 net for National Shot Creek LLC. So move second. Mr. Camp roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lo, I'll abstain. Okay. And then Mr. Dles. Yes. Motion carries. All right. Okay. And then uh Mr. Right, make sure I have this right. I just need to make a motion to amend the agenda by adding the Jed appointments. Yes. And that would be Jet appointments for Jed one and Jed 2.

Got it. All right, gentlemen. Entertain a motion uh to add and amend the agenda adding jet appointments one and jet amendment number two. So moved. Second. Mr. Camp will call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lug. Yes. Mr. Jills. Yes. Motion carries. Okay. Gentlemen, entertain a motion for the approval of various Union Township Jet Equipment board members. Jed number one is Chance Trooper. Chad number two is John Becker. Uh, and I'm sorry, let me clarify. Uh, let's do one at a time. Let's scratch that. Uh, unattend a motion for the appointment of jet appointments jet number one of Chance Trooper term ending 627 2030. So move. Second. Mr. Gamber roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lo. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes.

Motion carries. All right. Last one is uh a motion for the approval of Union Township Jed Board member John Becker at term ending 315 2030. move. Second, Mr. Campber will roll call. Mr. Becker, yes. Mr. Lo, yes. Mr. Dills, yes. Motion carries. All right. And moving along, guys. The uh All right. Uh our legislative agenda. Uh let's see here. Mr. Ray, just a brief explanation. Resolution 2026-25. This is a donation of property. This is a laundry list of housekeeping items service department's getting rid of through gov deals. Great. Gentlemen, uh the approval of resolution 2026-25. So move.

Second. Mr. Campbell. Roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Log. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries. Gentlemen, a motion for the approval of resolution 2026-26, resolution declaring National Therapy Animal Day. We already did that. We've done it. You're good. You know, guys, let's move on. Clearly, I'm getting tired. All right. Uh let's see here. Okay. I'm sure this will have some discussion on it. Uh, Mr. You're right. Resolution 262026-27.

Yes, sir. So, we've proposed a fee schedule increase regarding Mount Mariah Cemetery. It's significant as we've presented. Miss R and Mr. Taylor did a great job on that uh compiling stats. We're one of the busiest cemeteries in the area. Uh WCPO called me. They wanted to come out and look at it. Obviously, I'm not going to run from a camera. wanted to show off the uh the uh cemetery and uh you know at the end of the day we were actually burying people while they were interviewing while they were doing the interview. So the reality is u of among public cemeteries were one of the busiest uh 25 to 30,000 headstones. We're operating in a5 to $600,000 deficit annually uh based on the difference between what our costs are with the labor materials and our fees. And so, you know, we've prepared a fee schedule that adjusts that. It doesn't completely close the gap. The resolution also contemplates an annual fee increase between 2 and a half to 3 and 12% a year. Uh there was a caveat. Uh unfortunately, I'm going to have to present that or somebody is going to have to present that um to the board, you know, over time uh for annual ratification through the reorganizational meeting minutes. Um, and we would just bring that to you and say, you know, it's two and a half or and honestly, the earliest I would let this run. We're early in the year, uh, or mid year. We're almost mid year now, so we might as well look at probably 2020. Let it burn for 18 months and see what happens. So, so you would see the earliest I think you would see these is probably in 2028, unless Mr. Campbell comes to me and says we have to go in 2027 or in that case we could do like a 1% increase in 27 or whatever. So that's what it does.

Any questions for Mr. Ray Maker? I just a comment uh you know whether it's a cemetery zoning or anything else fee based for that matter I I don't want us losing money. I want us to be breaking even. So my only concern is if this you know if these cemetery fees still don't get us to breaking even we're not raising them high enough. Right. I mean, I'll at at some point we'll move the we'll move the ball down the court. So, I mean, I'm not vote no on this. Still got a question, Mr. Ray. Okay. Gentlemen, entertain a motion for the approval of resolution 2026-27, resolution establishing a P increase for Mount Marai Cemetery. So, move second. Any further discussion? Mr. Cameron, roll call. Mr. Becker? Yes. Mr. Lo? Yes. Mr. Dills?

Yes. Motion carries. Um, this doesn't need explained. Uh, resolution 2026-28, nuisance vehicle abatement resolution. Uh, Mr. Wright, just brief. Sure. This is a nuisance vehicle. We have to follow a different process per Ohio Revised Code 505871 to deal with registered and title property. Thank you to Chief Reese's department for looking up the title uh work on these various junk vehicles. And while we make every effort to try to get the property owner to get them licensed and operational, this gives us the ability to act if they fail or resist that. So that's where we are.

Any question, Mr. Rain? M. All right. Let's entertain a motion for the approval of resolution 2026-28, nuisance vehicle dating resolution. So moved. Second. Any question or any comments? Mr. Camp. Roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lo. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. Motion carries. All right, gentlemen. Last one. Uh, Mr. Wright.

Sure. This is a CDBG authorization. You guys see this annually. You know, we try to compete for grant funding where we can. Uh, two areas that are eligible are some Mount Carmel as far as LMI areas. We've tried twice. The county has elected not to fund improvements at Mount Carmel Park. So, we're pivoting. We're going to try and stretch the pedestrian improvements a little further in the summerside area in concert if we are successfully awarded the um safety funding from ODOT. So, great. Thank you, sir. Uh gentlemen, a motion for the approval of resolution 2026-29, resolution authorizing the CDBG fiscal year 2026 grant application. So, move second. Mr. Campbell, roll call. Mr. Becker, yes. Mr. L, yes. Mr. Dills,

yes. Motion carries. All right, we are at the end. Comments from the board. Vice Chair, floor is yours, sir.

Oh, Mr. Chairman, the hour is late, but as you expect, I have prepared some notes. I'll go through this quickly because it's late. You know, Mr. Chairman, as you know, I'm responsible for dinner in my house three nights a week. And I'd like to encourage the public to go out and visit our fine dining establishments. And being the penny pincher that I am, if there is a place to get it cheap, I will find it. So on this list, some of these places I got discounts on and got it pretty cheap. Other places not. I want to give you kind of the whole list. So, four of these are uh this was the fish fry season. So, none of these are particularly cheap, but there was St. Veronica, American Legion Post. Both of those were 24 bucks. That again, dinner for two. St. Thomas Moore's 30 bucks. Again, dinner for two. Mount Carmel Social Club, $28. Well, three of those that include a dessert. Now, here's one that's kind of unusual and not cheap. Cherry Grove Lanes. They got really good food there. Steak Hogies. Oh yeah.

$32.75 dinner for two. Did you bowl? No, I just eat. You just ate in a bowling alley? No, I take it home. It's a new one for you. No, it's not. I've been doing this for years.

I just haven't mentioned it. All right. So, here here. Okay. Here's another one I did not have a discount on. Grandma's Pizza Dinner for two $20. And the rest of these are in the kind of the $10 range where I had a discount one way or another on it. McDonald's $8.58. All these are dinner for two. Gold Star Chili, $9.80. White Castle, $11.96. I know that's one of your old time favorites, Mr. Chairman. Arby's, one of my favorites, $108. And finally, KFC, $1267. And that concludes my remarks.

Well done, Mr. Becker. Yeah, Mr. Lug. Sir, I can't follow that. So, it's hours late. We'll close. I went to Tony's the other night. I'm not going to tell you what that was, John. The uh Tony's up at Sims. I think he knows what it is. Just cover your ears, John. Don't hear it. It's kind of cover yours, John. Like less than uh Jeff, but uh cover yours. Anyways, you don't want to know. These are a kind of place that is so far out of my comfort zone, I wouldn't even know how to act if I was inside one.

I have no comments. Let's let's we'll uh we'll we'll move on. It's 10 o'clock. All right. Uh upcoming events. Oh boy. All right. Uh park and recreations committee meeting Thursday, April 16th, 5:00 p.m. right here at Civic Center. Union Township residential voucher program partnership with Rumkey begins April 20th, 2026. You can pick up that uh from our service department. Hey, for Miss Taylor, for clarification, is it are we still behind the police station or have you officially are you are they going Okay, we are completely moved. Okay, so you're going to the new location. Got I don't know that address. It's 3919 box. Roger that. Perfect. Okay, that's where you pick it up at. Yes, sir.

Uh Union Township Board of Zoning Appeals will meet May or May 7th, 2026, 7 p.m. Spring family moving night, Saturday, May 9th at Veterans Park. Uh you can go on Facebook and vote which one you want. Our next meeting will be right here second Tuesday of the month, May 12th, 6 pm Township uh family catch and release uh at Cleer Park May 16th 900 a.m. and followed by catch and release fishing 9:30 to 11. Uh let's see here. Rain or shine. Next CPR training, AED training provided by our fire department, May 23rd, 9:00 am to 1 pm. And participants will receive a certification as well. That's nice. Uh Friday, April 17th, uh Union Township Fire Department will be hosting Cincinnati Children's Hospital for a car seat tech course. The event will be hosted by Fire Station 53 located at 5149 Beachwood Road from 10 to 12 p.m.

Great. Gentlemen, I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. So move. Second, Mr. Camp. Roll call. Mr. Becker. Yes. Mr. Lo. Yes. Mr. Dills. Yes. We'rejourned at 10:02 p.m. 10:02. Thank you for staying this long. Appreciate you very much. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Sorry.