Saturday, February 20, 1999
Butler won't allow Monroe to annex Liberty Twp. land
BY STEVE KEMME
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HAMILTON — Butler County commissioners have rejected a proposal to allow Monroe to annex 18 acres in Liberty Township.
The commissioners said Liberty Township can offer at least the same level of services to the tract as Monroe, and there was no legal basis for approving the annexation.
Commissioner Courtney Combs said the county is prepared to defend its action in court if the owner, Ed Porginski of Loveland, and the property's trustee, Marvin Kleinman, bring a lawsuit.
The property is on the east side of Cincinnati Dayton Road.
Mr. Porginski wants to build single-family houses on the land and thinks Monroe offers better services than Liberty Township.
There could be an economic advantage to Mr. Porginski if the property were in Monroe. Under Monroe's zoning laws, the individual lots could be as small as 12,000 square feet. Liberty Township requires residential lots to be at least 20,000 square feet — roughly half an acre.
As a result, the developer could build more houses on the tract if it were in Monroe.
But township officials have said they would work with Mr. Porginski on a possible compromise.
The township trustees have said that allowing Monroe to annex the property might cause the Ohio Board of Education to move the tract from the Lakota School District to the Middletown-Monroe School District.
Officials said that property values could drop if the public perceived Lakota schools in a more positive light than Middletown schools.
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