Friday, April 07, 2000
Growth strategies proposed
BY DAVID ECK
Enquirer Contributor
SPRINGBORO — This city's master plan could be getting a boost from a group of students and professors from three Ohio universities.
The Ohio Design Assistance Team outlined several recommendations in the development of Springboro, including building connector roads, a new city hall along Main Street south of Ohio 73 and incorporating existing farm buildings in new developments.
The design team's report was presented Thursday. The group is composed of representatives from Ohio State University, Kent State University and the University of Cincinnati.
Most of the concepts outlined are part of the city's 1998 master plan, but the design team helped bring them into focus, said Michael Schepers, Springboro's economic development director.
“We had a skeleton of ideas and they put some meat on it,” he said. “We got some great technical assistance. We really moved a big step forward on our master plan.”
The team spent three days studying Springboro this year. Its focus: preserving a historic downtown amid rapid growth.
One recommendation to dull the negative effects of growth on the historic area is to build a connector road from Clearcreek-Franklin Road and Ohio 73 to Lytle Five Points Road and Ohio 741.
The new parkway, which could be enhanced with bikeways and a natural creek bed, is seen as a help to alleviate some of the traffic at Ohio 73 and 741.
Building a city hall along South Main near at Factory Street would give the historic area an anchor, said Frank Russell, adjunct assistant professor at UC.
; “They saw potential here that we kind of lose sight of,” Mr. Schepers said. “They looked at us like we've never looked at ourselves before.”
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