Wednesday, August 25, 1999
Union Twp. to pay for aerial map
Trustees have plans for VOA site
BY MICHAEL D. CLARK
The Cincinnati Enquirer
UNION TOWNSHIP — To help speed development of more than 620 acres in this fast-growing Butler County community, township leaders voted Tuesday to pay for the first-ever aerial mapping of the former Voice Of America (VOA) site.
Union Township Trustees voted 3-0 to spend more than $9,300 to hire a private aerial mapping firm — Aerial Technology Inc. — to photograph and computerize topographic data from the prime development site in southeastern Butler.
“This is very important in terms of land planning,” said Judith Carter, director of planning and zoning for the township.
Ms. Carter said the digital mapping will provide the most exact measurements to date of the more than 620 acres that used to house the VOA facility and transmission towers.
She said 308 acres of the site will go to Union Township, while 220 are designat ed to Butler County MetroParks for a golf course. Another 75 acres are designated for private developers — mostly lots with frontage along Cox Road — with 20 acres for a Miami University facility.
The aerial mapping of the site — just east of Interstate 75 and north of Tylersville Road — is scheduled to be completed in October, said Scott Bressler, Union Town ship project manager.
The digitalized mapping is superior to traditional topographical mapping, said Mr. Bressler, in that the data can be converted to computer-generated graphics allowing views of the site from different perspectives.
“We can do engineering designs from them,” he said.
The largest chunk of the VOA site — about half — will be a Union Township park. Construction on baseball and soccer fields already has begun at a new 300-acre park unofficially named Freedom Park.
The Miami University learning center will be developed in conjunction with other area colleges including the University of Cincinnati, Xavier University and Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio.
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