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C-2 METRO TODAY THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRERThursday, Aug. 7, 1980 Springdale Rejects Annexation City OK's Traffic Light For Montgomery Square action of good faith'' place the city's annexation effort on hold to see If the trustees follow through with their promises to solve some of the traffic problems that fueled the Springdale annexation attempt MRS. WAXMAN said she voted to halt the annexation effort because flooding problems In the city needed the resources that might be diverted to the township. Following the final vote, Mrs. Bolce noted that Butler County and Union Township officials had previously accused the city of trying to steal the industrial area of the county from them.

If nothing else, she said, council's actions had "rattled a few chains" and gotten some commitments from the township officials. motion calling for a halt to the annexation effort. Beamer, Vernon French and Marge Bolce opposed the motion. Earlier in the meeting, council In a 5-2 vote, rejected an annexation committee recommendation to place a six- to nine-month hold on the annexation plan. Annexation committee chairman Beamer opened discussion of annexation by reporting that Union Township trustees had advised residents of the target area that the township could provide services promised by Springdale at a lower cost.

Beamer said the annexation committee viewed the trustee's commitment as "encouraging" and recommended that council in "an MARGE BOICE Mayor Says Effort Not Worth Costs BY WILLIAM A. WEATHERS Enquire Reporter SPRINGDALE In a 4-3 vote, council Wednesday decided to cease Its six-month effort to annex a-three-square-mlle portion of neighboring Union Township In Butler County. Prior to the vote, Mayor Raymond Johnson urged council to halt the annexation effort because he said benefits of the annexation would not be worth the costs. Before council voted, Councilman Jim Beamer, chairman of council's three-member annexation committee, advised his colleagues that the city would face a $2 million deficit after 10 years If It proceeded with Its most conservative annexation plan. THAT PLAN called for the city to provide services to the area and to tackle one major capital Improvement In the Industrial basin area-upgrading Ohio 747 for one mile from Crescentvllle Road to Multiuser Road at a projected cost of $1.8 million.

The city was interested In annexing an Industrial area bounded on the west by Fairfield, on the south by the centerllne of Crescentvllle Road (the city's northern corporation limit), on the east by Wln-dlsch Road, and on the north by a line Just north of Mulhauser Road. Beamer said council would have to float bonds, readjust Its current capital Improvements priority list, or raise taxes to offset the deficit COUNCIL MEMBERS Donald Metcalf, Harold Carl, Lynn Waxman and Bob Weckman supported the Incorporation Issue May Not Be On Ballot Plsgah businesses netted about 700 signatures, she said. The committee held that drive because the second petition was 3,600 signatures short of its goal. Mrs. McOary said the incorporation question might not make it on the Nov.

4 ballot because of timetables involved in the petition process. Once the board of elections receives the petition, it must notify county commissioners, who then have 60 days to make sure the map of the area to be formed Into a city is accurate. Once they affirm the map, the board of elections must verify the signatures on the petition and hold a special election within 120 days of the date the petitions were filed, McOary said. Mrs. Helen Shumaker, chairwoman of the township petition drive, said this week her group has gathered more than enough signatures on the petition that is to be filed with the board of elections.

That petition will place the issue on the ballot But a second petition, this one to be submitted to Butler County commissioners, still is short of the required number of signatures, she said. The second petition must be signed by at least 51 of the township property owners. Mrs. Shumaker said the incorporation committee will hold another petition drive from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday at Lakota High School, Hopewell Junior High School and Union Elementary School. A similar drive last Saturday in BY SUE MacDONALD Enquirer Hamiton Bureau WEST CHESTER-The issue Of Incorporating Union Township apparently will not make the November ballot because supporters have not gathered enough signatures of property owners in the Butler County township. Noting the absence of a petition placing the Incorporation issue on the November ballot, Butler County Board of Elections Director Betty McOary said she has "serious doubts" that the city formation question will make it to voters at the upcoming general election. Incorporation may have to be decided at a special election, she said Wednesday, the deadline for filing petitions for local options and some local races. "We feel because of the safety factor, many establishments are suf- i ering," said Diane Colonel, property manager for Walnut Management.

Since the Market Place opened in 1974, with spaces for approxl- mately 30 businesses, Market Place has lost several tenants, Including the Magic Pan Restaurant and: Baskln-Robbins ice cream store. Others like the Strawberry Loft and the Common Market have moved to other locations. Some spaces have; remained vacant, said Glaubltz. SHOPS OPERATORS also cite Montgomery's restrictive sign ordl- nance as a problem. The ordinance; in general requires new signs to be small and ground-mounted.

Though Market Place's sign was-, erected before the restrictive sign ordinance went Into effect, and is therefore larger than the law per- mits, Glaubltz feels the sign Is too small. Glaubltz also says the Market Place cannot change its sign even though the Magic Pan restaurant is out of business without having to' conform to the smaller sign law. City officials said the new Schoolhouse Lane light will help the Market Place as well. It will be synchronized with the existing traffic signal at Mitchell Farm Lane, south of Market Place. The two lights would turn red simultaneously and enable customers to enter and leave both Market Place and Montgomery Square, he said.

Though a Schoolhouse Lane traffic signal Is viewed positively by some Market Place tenants, It Is not seen as the ultimate solution. "It will slow traffic down, but I dont see It solving the problem," Glaubltz said. As for the sign, Phillip Herrlck, administrative assistant to Mayor Kennedy, said he believes it is less Important than the merchants' need to Improve advertising. "What council has told them Is they have an identification problem," he said. CITY OFFICIALS have been sympathetic lately, Glaubltz said.

"Their attitude has changed. Our problem is their problem. It we don't have business, we're not paying as much taxes," he said. Montgomery Square construction will begin next spring. The Kroger's store will grow from 32,000 square feet to 45,000 square feet Randy Cooper, vice president of the development company, said the financial services center could Include a bank branch, savings and loan, travel agents, stock brokers, real estate companies, accountants and other related financial The expansion will wipe out two ballflelds on shopping center land, between Krogers and Schoolhouse Lane.

BY BETSY WONES Enquirer Contrtxrtor MONTGOMERY A Montgomery Road traffic light to help traffic flow from Montgomery Square shopping center was approved by city council Wednesday, but council rejected a plea for traffic control assistance for the Market Place Shoppes across Montgomery Road from Montgomery Square. The traffic light at Schoolhouse Road is part of a plan by developer Myers W. Cooper Co. to extend the Montgomery Square shopping center to Schoolhouse Lane. Council approved the expansion, which Includes enlarging the Kroger Co.

store into a "superstore" and constructing a financial services center at Montgomery Square. COUNCIL MEMBERS were not swayed to move the light to the Market Place entrance on Montgomery Road. Timothy Fisher, attorney for the Market Place, presented council with a petition signed by nearly 500 patrons of the newer Market Place. "Motorists leaving the Market Place have encountered a substantial difficulty In entering Montgom-. ery Road.

As a result patrons are retlcint to return," Fisher said. Council President Charles Abbott said the city's traffic consultant has recommended the light be placed at Schoolhouse Lane, because the traffic count is higher. The light will be financed by the Montgomery Square developers. Mayor Florence Kennedy suggested that the Market Place owners, Walnut Management, consider helping pay for a light at their entrance. "I was in council when Market Place was planned.

The agreement was that Market Place would help In the payment of a light when the time came," she said. A TRAFFIC light at Market Place Lane Is needed for both safety and economic reasons, shop operators said In interviews. The Market Place is located several hundred feet off Montgomery Road, behind a car dealer and a bank, while motorists can't miss seeing the huge Montgomery Square parking lot across the street. Peter Qlaubltz, manager of Sherlock's restaurant In the Market Place, said some of his customers have complained "of hating to fight traffic to get in and out of Market Place Lane and of having trouble finding the shopping center." William Schwartz, assistant manager of Berconl's restaurant, agreed. "I think they need one (a light).

At noon and at five, turning left is impossible," he said. Market Place petition was circulated by Market Place owners, Walnut Management, last week. Mill Creek Bridge Repairs Get Priority For Road Funds READING Repairs to the Columbia Avenue bridge over the Mill Creek have been made the city's top priority for state road repair funds after an Inspection by the city engineer showed portions of the bridge are severely deteriorated. Marty Walsh, city engineer, told city council during a special council meeting Wednesday that the bridge still is safe but that the city should consider Imposing a weight limit If state funds are not available for repairs. READING SUBMITTED a request to the Hamilton County engineer's office Aug.

1 for more than $400,000 from the state Road and Bridge Fund. Awards for those funds, which come from state license plate taxes, usually are made In January, Walsh said. Walsh said erosion around the abutments to the Columbia Avenue bridge has exposed wooden pilings which are severely rotted. However, Walsh said, the bridge probably will be safe for another two years. Reading also has applied for $160,000 in state funds to repair the bridge over the Mill Creek at Clark Street The flooring of that bridge needs repair, Walsh said.

-jim DEXTER reimburse Trl-County for supplemental expenses. Although MRDD had paid similar additional costs at other facilities in the past, Its own attorneysalong with those in the welfare department and the attorney general's and auditor's officesnow say those supplemental payments are Illegal. The MRDD, meanwhile, will take any steps necessary to keep the patients at that Butler County center, according to Betty Garrett, MRDD director of communications. "At such time that discharge letters are Issued if any MRDD will take every appropriate and necessary action to assure the well-being of the clients," she said. THERE IS a "high probability" that those actions could Include a lawsuit to keep the patients in Trl-County, she noted.

Trl-County still has a year-long contract, which took effect In July, to provide care for those patients at a higher rate-approximately $41 per patient per day compared to $37 previously. Martha Crossen, an attorney with Ohio Legal Rights Service In Columbus, said she plans to meet with the parents Involved sometime next week. While no specific plans have been made, "my sense is that they will undertake some kind of group action," she said. Attempt To Solve Center Pay Dispute Ends In Failure A last-ditch effort to resolve a payment dispute between state officials and administrators at the Trl-County Extended Care Center in Fairfield failed Wednesday. Center officials renewed their Intention to evict 42 mentally retarded patients.

Following a meeting Wednesday between lawyers for the state and Trl-County, administrator Barry Kohn said the center has no choice but to send out new discharge notices this Friday notifying relatives they have 30 ''ays to find alternative homes for patients. THE MONEY, approximately $125,000 Kohn said state officials promised to pay, was used to supplement Medicaid payments from the Ohio Department of Public Welfare between October, 1979, and June, 1980. Kohn said Rudy Magnone, director of the Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (MRDD), verbally agreed to (0) SAVE $7a9al Longest Lasting, Flat Latex House raint Reg. $16.99 a gai. SAVE '6 a 9.

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