WHAT’S NEXT
Board of Zoning Appeals meeting is set for 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16, at the Warren County Administration Building, 406 Justice Drive in Lebanon.
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Cheetahs should be breeding in Warren County by the end of the summer.
The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden has submitted plans for a $1.5 million development in a secluded wooded area on more than 600 acres near the Miami Valley Gaming racino in Turtlecreek Twp.
The zoo plans to move 10 cheetahs currently kept in Clermont County to the new facility, about three miles from the racino and Ohio 63 interchange at Interstate 75.
“Late summer is the goal,” communications director Michelle Curley said in an email to this news outlet.
The plans, however, do not include a run or public viewing area.
“The run will be on a different part of the property and has no connection to the breeding project. There would be an opportunity to have this be publicly accessible at some point in the future,” Curley said.
The cheetahs are bred with other zoo cheetahs from the Wilds, a wildlife park east of Columbus, as well as zoos in Texas, Florida, Nebraska and Washington, D.C.
On Feb. 16, the zoo is to present its site plan to the county’s Board of Zoning Appeals. The zoo is seeking a conditional use permit allowing for location of the facility near the intersection of Union and Nickel roads.
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