Austin Clements

The Comprehensive Land Use Plan for Union Township, Clermont County, Ohio, outlines a blueprint for the future, focusing on various corridors and overlay districts. It identifies key focus areas, including the Bach-Buxton Road Corridor, Central (S.R. 32) Retail Corridor, Ivy Pointe Commercial Corridor, Little Miami Corridor, Mt. Carmel Business Corridor, Mt. Carmel-Tobasco Mixed Use Corridor, Ohio Pike Corridor, Old State Route 74 (Summerside/Willowville), and Stonelick Olive Branch Corridor.

The Glen Este Withamsville / Aicholtz Roads Revitalization and Improvement Plan aims to supplement the Horizon 2030 Comprehensive Plan with a location-specific strategy for improvement. The plan focuses on eliminating blight, encouraging a mix of uses and intensity of development, facilitating new housing and retail opportunities, establishing development standards, and increasing overall investment and diversity of land uses. It also includes specific policy objectives related to land use, housing, environmental quality, public improvements, circulation, transportation, and economic development.

The Summerside/Mt. Carmel Reinvestment Corridor Community Development Strategy focuses on eliminating blight, preventing its recurrence, and encouraging an appropriate mix of land uses. It aims to facilitate new housing and retail opportunities, establish development standards, and redevelop commercial corridors. The strategy also seeks to increase overall investment and land use diversity, remove blighted properties, fast-track commercial investment, increase residential area attractiveness, and eliminate incompatible land uses. Environmental objectives include improving the visual environment, enforcing regulations against debris, and creating a pedestrian-friendly environment.

The Horizon 2030: Union Township Comprehensive Land Use Plan focuses on maximizing long-term sustainability, economic opportunity, and quality of life within Union Township through effective and comprehensive land use planning. Key areas of focus include supporting inclusive, creative, and innovative site design and development principles, protecting public health, safety, welfare, and morals, encouraging flexible and creative development approaches, and accommodating mixed-use, walkable development. The plan aims to reinforce the Township's role as a regional employment and commerce center within the Greater Cincinnati Metropolitan area.

The agenda includes recognition of employees' years of service, department reports from Fire & Emergency Medical Service, Police Department, Service Department, Planning & Zoning, Community Engagement, and Administration. Key discussion points include the approval of purchase orders, a memorandum of understanding with AFSCME Local 2461, establishing fall junk days, a Clepper Park waterline easement, authorization for an electric vehicle charging station grant, discussion of the Mt. Carmel Revitalization Grant Program, a roadway maintenance agreement with Clermont County, appointments to the Zoning Commission and JEDD boards, and resolutions related to establishing a New Community Authority District, a Then and Now Certificate, disposal of obsolete property, and a CDBG grant application.