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Garden Manor:
"We will likely move or close' if rezoning is OK'd"

MIDDLETOWN — Garden Manor Retirement Village may move or close its facility if Middletown City Council approves a zoning request that would allow a possible coke-making plant to be built on nearby land.

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The signs
say it all

behind the fence

Middletown & Monroe neighbors are concerned that the rezoning of farm land for a new SunCoke plant will forever change the residential neighborhood unnecessarily.

Amanda Elementary School Sign

Putting the SunCoke plant next to Amanda Elementary is a bad idea.

Dear Stay Inside the Fence Supporters:

In light of City Council's overwhelming vote to re-zone the Martin farm to make way for SunCoke to build a new coke plant, we wanted to first express our thanks and gratitude for your letters, emails, phone calls and especially testimony and presence on May 6.

The outcome was nothing less than disappointing, in fact it was devastating. Needless to say, we are evaluating our options and share your ongoing concern about the next steps to this process and are working to provide an answer to "what's next" within the next few days.

Please make sure to register for email updates through our website www.stayinsidethefence.com so that you can be informed as to what our strategies are to continue to fight this unthinkable action of City Council. We suspect the next time they hear from us, they won't be able to get away with not asking questions or even falling asleep.

SBTF Committee
Posted Friday, May 9, 2008

 

A map of the rezoning area

map of site

A map from the Middletown Journal showing where the coke plant would be placed next to Garden Manor, Amanda Elementary and a residential neighborhood.

We can do something
about this

By working together as neighbors who want what is best for Middletown and the entire region, we believe that we should have a broader community discussion about the rezoning, the choices that are available for SunCoke/AK Steel, the need to create and retain the jobs we have available and the need to strengthen our community's property values.

Please Contact Us to learn how to join this important public discussion. You can also contact Middletown City Council to air your concerns about the rezoning. Please go to Tell Council to learn more. There are solutions that will benefit Middletown, SunCoke and AK Steel. If you have already decided that you want to be a part of the solution, then please go to the Contact Us page and use the Comment section to let us know how you want to be involved.