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Anderson Township officials highlight apartment projects, county partnerships and public-health cooperation
Summary
Anderson Township leaders told the Hamilton County Commission on Feb. 13 about two recent apartment projects, parking and trail connections, and described ongoing county partnerships including recycling grants, ADA improvements, a sheriff contract and public-health agreements for emergency operations and opioid-settlement spending.
Anderson Township officials briefed the Hamilton County Commission on Feb. 13 about recent private development in downtown Anderson and ongoing partnerships with county departments.
Vicki Earhart, Anderson Township administrator, told commissioners the township approved two Community Reinvestment Areas that enabled Vantage at Anderson Town Center, described as a 224-unit apartment development with 124 public parking spaces on its lowest parking-garage level, and SkyTop, a 361-unit apartment project near Beechmont Avenue. Earhart said both projects had spurred additional private investment along nearby commercial corridors: “We are also seeing development down there in that area of the township. For example, Wawa is going to be opening a new, gas station convenience store… and the current United Dairy Farmers… is going to be redeveloping as well.”
Earhart described a long-running county–township partnership that includes recycling grants (about $70,000 per year in recent years) and ADA ramps and sidewalk work totaling roughly $406,000. She said Anderson Township has contracted with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office for more than five decades and is in the final stages of an agreement to continue that contract for another three years; that agreement will return to the trustees and the county commissioners for approval.
On public health and emergency preparedness, Earhart said the township directed opioid-settlement payments to Hamilton County Public Health for harm-reduction work. Public health personnel have conducted point-of-dispensing training for township staff, and the township has a memorandum of understanding allowing the county health agency to use the township’s emergency operations center in the lower level of the facility as a backup.
Commissioners and county staff thanked the township for the long-standing collaboration and noted regular coordination with the county engineer on traffic and gateway improvements near the Five Mile and I-275 interchange, and flood planning ahead of anticipated river rises.
No formal county actions were taken on the projects at the Feb. 13 meeting; township officials said pending agreements and items — notably the sheriff contract extension — will come before the respective boards for formal approval.
