Land use issues

[blazerbrad]

I know that this club does not use the trails commonly referred to as the "Furnace" area, but we really need some help as this area is on the brink of being completely shutdown.

As a brief summary, representatives from our club (Ohio 4x4 Trailriders) and OMTA (Ohio Motorized Trails Association) attended a meeting last week to debate the official vacating of the roads (trails) through this land. The county commissioners elected to keep the roads open during this meeting, however they appeared to have pulled a quick one on us and came back later and voted to vacate them. They had already vacated one road (trail) in the area in which "we" have a pending appeal.

See the e-mail below.

From: William Kaeppner [mailto:kaeppners@verizon.net]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 12:02 PM
To: Ohio Trails
Subject: Richland township

I just attended the Vinton County Commissioners meeting. Last week they decided not to vacate the Richland roads.

Today they have turned their back on the public and vacated the roads.

OMTA will be appealing the decision. It will cost MONEY. Now is the time to renew your membership and get everyone you know to join OMTA. It is time to make that tax exempt contribution to OMTA’s legal fund.

If we do not support OMTA’s efforts now we will lose not just this set of roads but every set from now on.

This is crunch time.

Bill Kaeppner

www.ohiotrails.org