Posted January 15, 200520 yr Bah...gotta love the rich folk squabbling. From the 1/5/05 Enquirer: Amberley Village Mayor Charles Kamine stands next to the old Crest Hills Country Club last week. Village residents disagree on what to do with the land, with some wanting a park or another country club and others wanting luxury homes built. The Enquirer/Ernest Coleman Amberley Village residents tangle over land Park or luxury homes? By Steve Kemme Enquirer staff writer AMBERLEY VILLAGE - With its rolling hills and tall trees, the 133-acre tract at Ridge and Galbraith roads presents a scene of pastoral beauty and tranquility. But for the past two years, the former Crest Hills Country Club has been a battleground. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050105/NEWS01/501050362/1056
January 15, 200520 yr "A lot of people here spent $1 million for their homes," he said. "They don't want anything that will depreciate the value." Can have the value of their properties go below 1 million....that would be a state of emergency then. Rich people cry too much.
January 16, 200520 yr ^ LOL. Those $500,000 homes on 1-acre lots are going to kill the value of that $1,000,000 home....
August 1, 200519 yr Here's a follow-up, in case anyone cares. From the 8/1/05 Enquirer: Golf course zoning stymies owner Amberley battles lawsuit to allow housing development By Steve Kemme Enquirer staff writer AMBERLEY VILLAGE - Amberley Village and the owner of the former Crest Hills Country Club are headed to trial over the zoning of the 133-acre property at Ridge and Galbraith roads. With the trial scheduled on Sept. 12 before Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Melba Marsh, attempts by both sides to reach a settlement have failed so far. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050801/NEWS01/508010351/1056/rss02
February 20, 200619 yr Better late than never.... Old tennis club, Gibson property prime targets Amberley Village seeking revenue enhancement BY STEVE KEMME | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER AMBERLEY VILLAGE - There isn't much on the long stretch of grassy land, sitting high above the Ronald Reagan Highway. The 27-acre tract contains deteriorating tennis and basketball courts, the remnants of brick and cement floors from a demolished swim club, and Amberley Village maintenance facilities. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060211/NEWS01/602110345/1056
June 20, 200618 yr Greetings at Gibson site Amberley Village welcomes plan to lease building, study options Cincinnati Business Courier - June 16, 2006by Laura BavermanStaff Reporter A Madeira-based development group purchased the former headquarters of Gibson Greeting Cards in Amberley Village and announced plans for a multi-use development on the site's remaining 29 acres, for a project likely to cost tens of millions of dollars. Click on link for article. http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2006/06/19/story4.html
September 17, 200618 yr Ex-Gibson site is sold for $6.25M BY JEFF MCKINNEY | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER AMBERLEY VILLAGE - A local development company has bought the former factory and headquarters of Gibson Greetings Cards for $6.25 million. Its plans for part of the property could include a housing subdivision. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060917/BIZ01/609170306/1076/BIZ
December 15, 200618 yr Amberley loses zoning dispute Ridge Club would be housing site BY STEVE KEMME | [email protected] A Hamilton County judge ruled Thursday that Amberley Village illegally rejected a zoning change request that would have permitted a residential development on the former Crest Hills Country Club site. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061215/NEWS01/612150359/1056/COL02
December 24, 200618 yr Village to appeal ruling on zoning of old country club THE ENQUIRER AMBERLEY VILLAGE - The legal battle between Amberley Village and the Ridge Club over the zoning of the former Crest Hills Country Club will continue in the 1st District Court of Appeals. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061224/NEWS01/612240377/1056/COL02
November 16, 200717 yr Amberley loses Crest Hills appeal BY STEVE KEMME | [email protected] AMBERLEY VILLAGE – The 1st District Court of Appeals today sided with the Ridge Club in its dispute with Amberley Village over the proposed development of the former Crest Hills Country Club. In its decision, the appeals court sided with a lower court ruling last year stating that Amberley illegally rejected the Ridge Club’s request to change the zoning of the 133-acre Crest Hills site to permit a residential development. No link available for article.
December 12, 200717 yr Ex-country club fight not over Amberley Village votes to appeal BY STEVE KEMME | [email protected] AMBERLEY VILLAGE - The controversy over whether the former Crest Hills Country Club is developed or remains a golf course or a park might be decided by the Ohio Supreme Court. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071212/NEWS01/712120336
April 9, 200817 yr Amberley loses Crest Hills appeal BY STEVE KEMME | [email protected] AMBERLEY VILLAGE – The Ohio Supreme Court today refused to hear Amberley Village’s appeal of a lower court ruling that Amberley illegally rejected a zoning request that would have permitted a housing development to be built on the site of the former Crest Hills Country Club. The decision ends a long legal battle over the development of the 133-acre site at Ridge and Galbraith roads between Amberley and the Ridge Club, the site’s owner. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080409/NEWS01/304090042
May 20, 200817 yr Amberley: What future Crest Hills? BY STEVE KEMME | [email protected] AMBERLEY VILLAGE – Decision day is coming fast for Amberley Village officials. In recent months, they’ve debated whether to buy the former Crest Hills Country Club and run it as a public golf course or park, or allow it to be sold to a developer who would build homes on part of the 133-acre property at Ridge and Galbraith roads. Click on link for article. http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080519/NEWS01/305190060/-1/back01
August 13, 200816 yr Amberley, Ridge agree on $8.75 million http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080812/NEWS0107/308120068/1055/NEWS The Ridge Club and Amberley Village reached a tentative agreement Tuesday that would end their four-year fight over the future of the former Crest Hills Country Club. ... [glow=yellow,2,300]Amberley officials want to buy the property to prevent it from being developed. They plan to preserve it as a public park and golf course.[/glow] Click on link for article.
October 13, 200816 yr Amberley buys golf course, but can village run one? By Steve Kemme • [email protected] • October 13, 2008 AMBERLEY VILLAGE - After an acrimonious four-year legal battle and countless hours of difficult negotiations, Amberley Village finally controls the fate of the former Crest Hills Country Club. On Friday, the village closed on its $8.75 million purchase of the 133-acre site at Galbraith and Ridge roads from the Ridge Club. Click on link for article. http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20081013/NEWS0108/810130338/0/NEWS0107
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