Tuesday, March 16, 1999
Madison Twp. site offered for Butler Co. jail
BY STEVE KEMME
The Cincinnati Enquirer
HAMILTON — A Middletown man has offered to donate 11 acres in Madison Township for the proposed Butler County Jail.
The property, owned by Robert Wise, is in an area zoned for light industry on Trenton-Franklin Road, north of Middletown and the hamlet of Poasttown.
The land abuts a site where Mr. Wise had operated a trucking business, and is near sewer and water lines. Mr. Wise told Commissioner Chuck Furmon of the offer Saturday.
“They're having trouble locating a place for a new jail, and I thought I would give this to them if it would settle their problems,” Mr. Wise said. “I've had the property since 1956 and haven't done anything with it.”
The commissioners expressed reservations Monday about locating the jail more than a half-hour's drive from the county seat of Hamilton.
Although the site also may be too small for future expansion of the jail, “we ought to check it out,” Mr. Furmon said.
The commissioners authorized county consultants to conduct an environmental assessment of the site.
The county wants to build a jail to replace the one in downtown Hamilton that was built 38 years ago to hold 80 prisoners, but often has more than 180.
The county's currently preferred site for the jail is county-owned property at the top of a hill near the Butler County Care Facility on Princeton Road in Hamilton.
But residents who live a half-mile from the site have objected to locating a jail there. They say the jail would create safety problems and would lower their property values.
The county applied last week for $10.3 million in state funds for jail construction.
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