Trustees also approve plans for a UDF on corner of Cincinnati-Dayton and Princeton roads.

Liberty Twp. trustees approved Oct. 19 the rezoning of 7.7 acres on the northeast corner of Cincinnati-Dayton and Princeton roads for a United Dairy Farmers store and a Delhi Flower and Garden Centers location.

Construction is expected to start next spring on the all-brick structures to allow for a fall 2007 opening, said Mark Sennet, president of land development and contractor company Beckmark Inc.

Like the UDF location opened on the corner of Ohio 747 and Princeton Road, the new location will include gas pumps and a car wash.

“I think, as proven with (Ohio) 747 and Princeton, this is needed on the north-south route on Cincinnati-Dayton,” Sennet said. “They’re doing tremendous business.”

Robert Maddux of Delhi Flower and Garden Centers said he foresees leaving empty an outlot on the northwest corner of the site.

“We’re not in the retail/development business,” Maddux said. “I think that with buying that property, it gives us the opportunity to expand in the future.”

This will be the second location for the family-operated and owned business, which first opened in 1960 in Delhi Twp. Maddux closed that location in July but a Springdale location that opened in 1983 remains in business.

Voicing his support for the project was Dean Swartz, a resident of the township for more than 20 years.

“For those two decades people have been saying we need commercial development to help our taxpayers from having to bear all of the load,” Swartz said. “We now have an opportunity to get some of that commercial development and I ask you to approve this project so that we have some of that commercial development to help those of us residential taxpayers not have to bear the entire load.”