2001 05 10

Citizens for Healthy Environment Everywhere Residential

For whom may be concerned:

Defending the heart of Northern Kentucky from the aggressive Cinergy Energy Merchant,

C H E E R meets at 7pm, every Monday, at the offices of NCAD Corporation in Erlanger, at 463 Erlanger Road, for updates, discussion, and planning. Our efforts, near-term, are to avert a catastrophic imposition of an unregulated, toxic, 1-Billion-BTU inferno of corporate greed in the midst of dense residential land use, just south of I-275. Our longer-term mission is to focus community attention on the remaining 52-acre, deer-green, undeveloped property surrounding the new, $7M Kenton County Library. This area, we call the Long GreenSpace, owned by the Long Family partnerships, is increasingly viewed as a prized, centrally-located community asset accessible to Erlanger, Crestview Hills, Edgewood, Lakeside Park, and Crescent Springs.

Our map, updated to include aerial photography, is available on the web at NCAD.net ?Power.

On the southern edge of this greenspace is SilverLake Recreation Park, well established and highly utilized, providing 3 basketball courts, 3 tennis courts, soccer field, and 2 baseball fields. Accessibility to this Park was opened to the four neighboring communities on the north and East of Erlanger this year by the new Crescent Avenue extension to Kenton Lands Road. West adjacent to the Park is the new SilverLake Recreation Center indoor Olympic swim/gym facility. On the north end is the future $7M Kenton County Library, the state's most active branch. Construction is to begin this summer!

Cinergy's 13 acre parcel on the north side of Kenton Lands Road is now a quiet, largely green, contained, gas distribution hub, not affecting the obvious residential, recreational, and institutional use of land south of I-275. The 31-acre Long greenspace north of Kenton Lands Road is an increasingly attractive site appropriate for high-end commercial development consistent with the greenspace use across the Road.

Densely residential Erlanger land, west of Hulbert Ave is capped by the Baptist Village home for 250 Elderly residents. This facility is 700 feet from the proposed Cinergy combustion chamber, not 1200 feet as recorded by John Funke of Cinergy in the Application for Permit #V-00-053 to the KY Division of Air Quality. This same application, available on the web, also characterized the Long greenspace as "Industrial". This would be accurate only for existing legacy zoning, but absolutely not for existing, long-standing actual USE!

No other industrial use occurs in the larger area bounded by I-75 on the west, Commonwealth Ave on the south, the RailRoad tracks on the east and I-275 on the north. The zoning was established before existence of I-275 and is well on the way toward being amended, as a part of the developing 5-year Comprehensive Plan this fall.

There are many opportunities in Northern Kentucky and adjoining areas to locate the generating capacity Cinergy claims is necessary, without violating the required buffer, and without spoiling the extremely unique greenspace on top of and at the central heart of residential Northern Kentucky.

Thank you for your continuing interest.

Please join us for regular, continuing C H E E R meetings at 463 Erlanger Road every Monday at 7:00pm. Bring your friends, and kids are welcome!

C H E E R

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