Sites Evaluated For Kenton County Detention Center
4812 Webster Road- 42 acres- Topography would make development too costly and access for law enforcement less than adequate.
5000 Webster Road- 65 acres- Topography would make development too costly and access for law enforcement less than adequate.
2835 Crescent Springs Road- Saligman Distributing Site- Cost was prohibitive, site was too small for single story construction and lacked easy access for law enforcement.
Rt. 9 & 275 in Campbell County- Explored potential for regional jail site. This was one of the first sites examined and discounted as Campbell County was too far along in the development phase to seriously consider a multi-county facility.
Tewes Property- Explored co-location in industrial site as it was clear there was no incompatibility with this land use, however the cost of this property $175,000 per acre would have triggered site acquisition costs that exceeded county's fiscal capacity.
Coporex Property on Dolwick Drive- Site acquisition costs of 125,000 to 150,000 per acre would make the site acquisition costs too excessive.
Duke Energy property near Fidelity Road- Site too small for the development of a single level story. Additional concerns in this area was related to the environmental sensitivity of Banklick Creek in this area and flood plan issues.
Lally Pipe and Tube rail yards- Too difficult to access by majority of law enforcement agencies and inadequate immediate access to infrastructure.
Softball City- Site too small for single story facility and property was a fill site for a state road project and therefore compaction of site was in question for a facility of this size.
Long Property on Kenton Lands Road- Asking price of $90,000 to $150,000 per acre was determined too be expensive.
Palm Beach Property- Kenton Lands Road- Site would have required two story facility, significant demolition and co-location with a high school. Additionally, this site would create additional congestion in what has been defined in the Dixie Highway Corridor Study as having the highest number of accidents in the corridor.
NKU Property in Park Hills- Property was too small and would have required legal action to remove restrictive covenants on property.
Property on Amsterdam Road in the area of Bromley-Crescent Springs and St. John's- Poor highway access, site is inadequate in size.
Sohio Property in Covington- Environmentally sensitive site, not potential for development.
Litzler &16- Right side of the road at Grand Avenue- Flood plain issues and inadequate available property without significant condemnation of property.
Duke Energy property behind TANK- Property too small and flood plain issues.
Reexamination of Elsmere Site- Inadequate access too law enforcement
Property behind Animal Shelter- Site was not large enough without incurring development costs that would have been too high and there was the potential of having to become involved in condemnation of property.
Old KY 17- Evaluate purchasing homes in the flood plain and locating the facility in this area. The cost of construction in a flood plain would have created significant financial loss as the preliminary engineering demonstrated the need to fill 5 foot across the entire site.
Property near Duke Energy facility in the vicinity of 19th Street in Covington - Inadequate land available without significant condemnation, major sewer transfer line through the area and the site would be directly in under the power lines.
Excess property Butler purchased from the Sanitation District in the Corporex Development off Dolwick- This site has inadequate access and cost would have been excessive. Not easily accessible for law enforcement as being not located near the center of the county.
Franxmann Property- Property acquisition would have necessitated the condemnation of the site.
Property behind where Transitions is planned on Pleasure Isle Drive- too many parcels involved, many requiring condemnation and even with this, the site would have presented significant development issues.
Property adjacent to the Independence Shooting Range- Inadequate available land.
Fort Wright Property- This site would have required condemnation, as a developer had already acquired and began construction on a project.
Kudera Site- Would have required the installation of a bridge across Folwer Creek with development costs of close to $1,000,000 for the bridge.
Reexamination of County Building at 303 Court Street- Reports indicate that the facility renovation would cost more than a new facility up front, there would be no room for expansion at the current site and at the end of the process the county would still continue to pay an increased cost of operation inherent in the operation of a high rise facility.
Bowman Field- There was consideration of eliminating the ball field, seeking to purchase property in the area and develop the facility in this location. The issues creating problems for this site was lack of adequate infrastructure, lack of adequate roadway access and mass transportation as well as potential environmental issues on the site.
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