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SEEKING THE TRUTH
MUSA Resident Joined: Oct 17 2012 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 62 |
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This land is up for rezoning again address 2000 Germantown Rd 14.5 acres and address 2400 Carmody Blvd. Almost 2 years ago the owner Jeff Faulkner Family Trust requested that the land be rezoned from a industrial zoning which made no sense to the owner. A commercial zoning which would be attractive to a developer to build a strip mall restaurants hotel just about anything commercial was the goal. But the city at the meeting said that they had plans for this land. You see the city of Middletown owns the city airport and the planning director Marty Kolher went on to explain how a out dated master plan called for this property to remain I1 industrial and per that old out dated plan the city would want to see something that had to do with aviation purchase the land.Mr Kohler went on to explain to the commissioners that there was commercial land available next to Big Boys for sale that the city owns but he failed to mention it was contaminated and he noted there was lots across from Big Boys for sale but failed to explain that they have no sewer and the cost to get sewer ran under the Highway would be a large added expense to each lot. So is this city getting on the right track we have a new city manager that has just stated in a article that we need more housing more retail more jobs so here is a chance of getting that started on a side of town that has not seen new development since 1970. Let's get it done people.
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VietVet
MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008 |
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With Kohler gone and along with it, some of his growth retarded methods, perhaps, with Adkins wanting to open up some development in this city, we may start seeing something positive for a change. We shall see.
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I'm so proud of my hometown and what it has become. Recall 'em all. Let's start over.
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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“But the city at the meeting said that they had plans for this land.” Numerous years ago the city purchased Hook Field because City Hall thought that it was a key property for the redevelopment of this area. We are still making bond payments on this debt. Please remember that it was only a few years ago that Miss Judy stated that the city could not continue to subsidize bond payments from the general fund for Weatherwax, Hook Field and the Middletown Health Dept needed to merge with Butler County Health Department. At that time the airport was running about a $90,000 shortage every year. I do not known at this time if the airport is still being subsidized from the general fund or if this investment is now breaking even. About
10 years ago the City purchased the frontage property on Several
years ago the large mobile home park on This
is the beginning of the zoning war between City Hall and Mr. Faulkner and the illegal
actions taken by City Hall concerning these two properties. We
have all discussed many times on this blog that businessmen should invest their
own money to open businesses in
City Hall has stated that they want new business and are now a business friendly
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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At the council meeting on 5-03-2005 the City of Middletown purchased any and all interest of Hogan Air at Hook Field
for $1,555,000. Then the city purchased the Aeronca property and removed the office building and started cleaning up the contamination of the property which is still not completed.| Sooo after 10 years how are these investments doing and are the taxpayers getting any bang for their big bucks? Money, money everywhere and not a dime to spend... |
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Vivian Moon
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I just called called City Hall for more information concerning the airport debt.
The current principal on this debt for the airport bond is $1,155,000. The yearly payment on this debt is about $125,000. This debt will be paid off in 2027.... Do any of you know if the airport is now at a break even point or making a profit yet?
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SEEKING THE TRUTH
MUSA Resident Joined: Oct 17 2012 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 62 |
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“This is the beginning of the zoning war between City Hall
and Mr. Faulkner and the illegal actions taken by City Hall concerning these
two properties.” Vivian Jeff Faulkner is not looking to go war with City Hall
but what he is looking at doing is straightening out the improper ILLEGAL rezoning of
one of his properties located at 2400 Carmody Blvd. Vivian in 2014 Jeff Faulkner trustee purchased
two parcels of land from ACG one of those parcels was a 14.5 acres which was created
by removing the road frontage on Germantown rd. of the property located at 2014 Carmody Blvd. per
resolution R2013 – 17 which was adopted
on August 20, 2013. RESOLUTION NO. R2013·17 A
RESOLUTION CONFIRMING A DETERMINATION OF THE CITY PLANNING WHEREAS, Middletown
City Commission confirmed a planned use modification WHEREAS, the
property owner recently sought a major amendment to the WHEREAS, Planning
Commission held a public hearing and recommended WHEREAS, City
Council held a public hearing on the recommendation of NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Section
1 A
determination of the City Planning Commission approving an amendment to the Section
2 It is
hereby determined that the subject matter of this legislation is not of a Section 3 The planned use modification overlay (1-1 p) is removed from a portion of the subject property as shown on Exhibit "An attached
hereto. Section
4 This
ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the Isl Lawrence P. Mulligan, Jr. Lawrence
P. Mulligan, Jr., Mayor Adopted:
August 20,2013 Attest: Isl Amy
Schenck Clerk
of the City Council
HJLawneg/2013 leglr Planned Use Modification - Riverside.doc Now I have a question? what is the address of the SUBJECT PROPERTY ANSWER 2410 CARMODY BLVD. Okay so Vivian can you find anything on this resolution that list the address of 2400 Carmody Blvd. that would be NO!!!!. THE FACTS 1. Jeff Faulkner Trustee purchased 2 parcels in 2014 2. In 2014 Jeff Faulkner after the purchase of the properties contacted the city of Middletown "Marty Kohler" about the zoning of the properties at parcel 2400 Carmody Blvd. and the 14.5 acre track split from the 2410 Carmody property. 3. Jeff Faulkner after speaking with the city decided to rezone both parcels to C-2 a commercial zoning. 4. Jeff Faulkner was instructed by Marty Kohler to fill out a application to rezone the properties. NOTE: WHAT IS INTERESTING HERE IS THAT MARTY KOHLER WHEN DOING THE WRITE UP ON THIS APPLICATION ON MAY 15, 2014 Ref: letter C-3032 LISTED BOTH ADDRESS ONE AS 2400 CARMODY BLVD NEAR THE CORNER OF GERMANTOWN RD AND CARMODY BLVD AND STATES IT CONTAINS A STRIP CONVENIENCE RETAIL CENTER. HE LIST THIS PROPERTY CONTAINS 1.917 ACRES AND IS ENTIRE LOT 16158 5. Marty list the second parcel is a split from lot 16159 and is the portion of the lot that borders Germantown Rd and contains 14.5064 acres. 6. Jeff Faulkner is denied his zoning request and is told at the planning commission meeting that the city has plans for this land to support the airport. 7. The City of Middletown purchased the airport for around 1.5 million dollars and today still owns the airport. 8. Vivian not long after Jeff Faulkner was denied his rezoning of the properties he was informed on this blog that the lot 2400 Carmody was still a commercial lot because of the I1P overlay was not removed still showing on the city zoning map and that designation gave that parcel the right to operate a commercial strip center just like Marty Kohler had describe in his write up for the rezoning application. 9. On August 5, 2014 Jeff Faulkner went in to the city of Middletown Building office and filed a certificate of zoning compliance application form to allow him to open a commercial retail strip center at 2400 Carmody Blvd. 10. Jeff Faulkner later that day on August 5 2014 attended a city council meeting to confirm the zoning at which during citizen comments explain what had happen and handed out copies of the above resolution R2013-17 to all of the council and the staff Doug Adkins, Les "law director" and asked the Mayor Larry Mulligan to have one of his staff members look into why he was being mislead by city staff about the zoning of his property. NOTE: COULD THIS HAVE BEEN BECAUSE THE CITY HAD PLANS FOR THIS LAND. 11. The city manager writes Jeff Faulkner a explanation of what has happened and here it is you talk about a smoke job! I can see why they hired Doug Adkins.
~MIDDLETOWN
::::: August 21,2014 To: Jeff Faulkner From: Doug Adkins Re: Riverside
Village MHP Jeff, You asked the City to put
in writing our position on the zoning of the parcels you recently On May 20, 2014, the City
received an application from Chris Barry, representing ACG Legal Notice No. 13-7508
was published in the Middletown Journal on May 29, 2013, Public Hearing: A request
by Chris Barry representing ACG Cincinnati, LLC and On May 28, 2013, a Notice
of Public Hearing was sent to adjacent property owners. The 1 A request for an amendment
to the development plan to reduce the density of On June 12,2013, Planning
Commission held a public hearing regarding this request. At 24:00 minutes, the
public hearing is opened and Jeff Faulkner was sworn in at 24:23 At 29:30 minutes, Mr.
Barry, the owner is sworn in as the applicant and owner of the Trailer The Public Hearing was
closed and Planning Commission voted unanimously to approve the On June 18,2013, Mr. Kohler sent Legal Notice No. 7523 to the Middletown Journal for I See also, City Planning Commission
Minutes, June 12,2013, page 2. 2. City Planning Commission's
recommendation on a Planned Use Modification to The Proposal in the legal
ad was listed as: A request for an amendment
to the development plan to reduce the density of On August 6,2013, City
Council held a Public Hearing on this matter. At 1 :58 minutes into the Council meeting, the Public Hearing began. Mr. Kohler made a presentation
of the proposal to City Council. At 5:01, 6:23, and from 7:48 to 9:19
minutes into the meeting, Mr. Kohler displays the map on the City Council chamber wall clearly showing all
front parcels including the comer strip center parcel to be removed from the development plan
and changed from l-Ip to 1-1. At 7:10 minutes into the Council meeting
and public hearing, Mr. Kohler displays a picture of the strip center building located on the comer
parcel, and at 7:30 minutes Mr. Kohler states that "it is the intent to rezone this to an
industrial classification." At 12:19 minutes into the
meeting, Mr. Barry, the owner of Riverside Mobile Home Park, and the applicant, begins his testimony. At no time does he question the maps
or proposal before City Council. At 14:30 minutes into the Council
meeting, Mr. Barry points to the map showing all Germantown Road frontage including the comer parcel with the
commercial strip center and he testifies that the frontage parcels represent a "large
piece of land for somebody to put some light industrial on it." At 16:47 minutes
into the Council meeting, Mr. Barry is asked whether he intends to develop the industrial parcels. He
responds that his intent is that they "will be sold off for another to develop." The Public Hearing ends
with no further testimony. Later in the meeting, City Council In your August 20,2014,
email, you state
"Doug what I am saying is that the 2400 lot
must have been listed on all of the notices and 3. The property under
consideration was the Riverside Mobile Home Park, which included The owner of the property
testified at both Planning Commission and at City Council that he City Council had a public
hearing, accepted testimony and adopted the Resolution removing The comer parcel at 2400
Carmody Boulevard was properly removed from the existing If you have a proposed use
that you believe would be consistent with the Master Plan and Thank you for your
patience as we've researched and reviewed this situation. Sincerely,
Doug Adkins Vivian why Doug Adkins is creating that labyrinth letter to Jeff Faulkner at which he fails to mention or show one shred off evidence that 2400 Carmody Blvd is on a resolution that was passed by city council to rezone the property at 2400 Carmody Blvd to be rezoned the only one that it could be on is the one that I have now pasted on this blog. Well why Jeff Faulkner is waiting for the answer of the city manager Doug Adkins Mr. Marty Kohler has the zoning map changed he removes the I1p overlay from the 2400 Carmody Blvd. without any authorization from the city council. Vivian so this leaves another question who told Marty to do it.? guess we will never know cause he quit! This might just be a mistake by the city but why try to cover it up doesn't make any since to me. Vivian this is not the first time Jeff Faulkner has had a run in with Marty Kohler, Doug Adkins and the Law department. It seemed almost every time he spoke at a council meeting it the next day he was being wrote up for a sign violation or the city was towing one of his trailers and last but not least the improper removal of some money from one of his bank accounts at which by email the city did contact him and state they were returning it to him and did return the money to his account but before it could even post to the account charged him with stealing it. Of course this all went down when they were losing the MPHA program back to HUD and we all know who was running that show right surely that person would not have ill feelings over losing a program it took the city 4 year's to get reduced and the where they wanted it well that is over with. I CANT FIGURE OUT FOR THE LIFE OF ME WHY MARTY KOHLER DID NOT GET FIRED FOR CHANGING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP. Maybe someone with a higher pay grade told him to do it never know he quit? § 1216.02 CHANGING THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP. If, in accordance with the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance, changes are made in district boundaries or other matters portrayed on the Official Zoning Map, such changes shall be made by the Director of Planning and Community Development on the Official Zoning Map promptly after the amendment has been adopted by City Council. No changes of any nature shall be made on the Official Zoning Map except in conformity with the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance. (Ord. 4886, passed 12-27-1968) Hopefully the city and Jeff Faulkner can settle this at the planning meeting coming up and put this behind them and better the city by developing that land not just for the airport but everyone in the city to use that is what Jeff Faulkner wants. Just throwing this out there In 2013 Jeff Faulkner was very open and spoke out how the MPHA section 8 program and needed to be turned over to HUD. I have heard the he even turned over state evidence of possible fraud actions by some of the city staff members this could of been the push that HUD needed to force the city to turn over the program. Vivian did Judy quit about that time? and who else was running that program? JUST THROWING THAT OUT THERE I believe this will all come out in that multi million dollar law suit that the city has to deal with that Jeff Faulkner filed in 2015. People just keep quitting Stay tune to this channel for further updates |
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Analytical
MUSA Citizen Joined: Nov 19 2015 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 562 |
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Many real estate professionals are fully aware of the bureaucratic chicanery
involving certain senior city government officials. In this regard, they wish Mr. Faulkner the very, very best in exposing questionable practices involving zoning, Section 8, real estate boondoggles, excessive residential demolition, HUD discrepancies, etc. The continuance of back room politics and governmental retaliation against developers like him has no place in Middletown.
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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"If you have a proposed use that you believe would be consistent with the Master Plan and
Airport Plan that would benefit the City, Les Landen and I are willing to meet with you to discuss your ideas further." Trurth I just checked the property that is to the north ajoining the Germantown Road frontage owned by Mr. Faulkner. 1811 Germantown Road is owned by Mark Schneider Q6511032000001 and is zoned commerical. I don't really understand why the Germantown Road frontage of Mr. Faulkner could not be zoned commerical also. Why is this the only property on this side of the road that is zoned light industrial? Why must this property be used as an airport associated bussiness? How's that Master Airport Plan working for the two properties owned by City Hall? The plaza at 2400 Carmondy Blvd has been zoned commerical for years. I had a clinet that had a bussiness office there for many years. More on this subject later... |
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middielover
MUSA Resident Joined: Oct 31 2015 Location: Middletown Status: Offline Points: 192 |
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SEEKING THE TRUTH
Why do you hide the fact that you are Jeff Faulkner? Seems more like you are SEEKING THE UNTRUE. |
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spiderjohn
Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Jul 01 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2749 |
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pretty obvious, middielover
as usual, a poor attempt to discredit a contributor as a distraction to admin bumbling and dysfunctional activity nbd |
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jag123
MUSA Resident Joined: Nov 05 2009 Location: Middletown Status: Offline Points: 143 |
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The city has owned the airport for more than 80 years. The city bought all of the new buildings that Mike Hogan built in the 90s for pennies on the dollars.
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middielover
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Spider John
Do you not think the ramblings of Seeking The Truth (aka Jeff Faulkner) about his zoning issue is a simply case of him telling his side of the story? A story that is full of inaccuracies. Like I wrote: "Seeking The Truth" is really "Seeking The Untrue" |
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spiderjohn
Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Jul 01 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2749 |
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I agree with both of your statements, middielover
2 sides of a very twisted story it is time for the old ways of admin to be held accountable and end a new era agree? |
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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Jag123
I have pdf copies of this legilation if you would like a copy please email me. ORDINANCE NO. 02005-42
At the council meeting on 5-03-2005 the City of Middletown purchased any and all interest of Hogan Air at Hook Field for $1,555,000. |
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Vivian Moon
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middielover and spiderjohn, It is my understanding that this case is now before the courts so our opinion really doesn’t matter. The laws of this city must apply to everyone equally. |
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