Duke Energy Substation: Enhance the entry experience from State Route 63 to the downtown along the Cincinnati Dayton Road corridor and improve overall aesthetics of the area, especially surrounding the substation. Butler Tech LeSourdsville Campus: To bridge the Butler Tech LeSourdsville Campus, Monroe Bicentennial Commons, and the surrounding community together through the development of a new hub on the west side complete with live and work opportunities for young adults and entertainment options for all young professionals, workers, and entrepreneurs, and create a stronger partnership between the Campus and City.
Frameworks Land Use
Monroe will achieve a more cohesive and balanced development pattern that strengthens residential neighborhoods and grows the job base while offering more diverse and unique places to enhance the character of Monroe, promote quality development, target strategic redevelopment, protect natural assets, responsibly grow the school district, and minimize impacts to City resources.
Future Land Use Map
The purpose of the Future Land Use map (next page) is to help decisionmakers, developers, property owners, and the public understand the City’s development strategy and the intent for how the City’s land resources should be used over the next twenty years regarding type, location, and intensity. The Future Land Use map and land use descriptions are conceptual in nature and portray a high-level view of future development strategies and the desired outcome of the community. There are three types of development one may expect in Monroe — greenfield, infill, and redevelopment. Greenfield development is construction on previously undeveloped land on open space or agricultural land. Infill development is building on vacant or underutilized property within an area that has previously been largely developed. Examples of infill development could be an empty downtown lot with a newly constructed business or an older vacant subdivision lot on which a new house is constructed. Redevelopment could include a building demolition with a new structure or possibly converting an existing building into a new or different use. Monroe will continue to see predominately greenfield or infill development because in most cases the current/existing use will be the Chapter 1 Executive Summary | 11
