Butler County Engineer
Greg Wilkens announces the release of the new 2003 Official Butler
County Transportation Map. The map is thoroughly updated with
new annexations, incorporations, and road additions, including
private streets. The trademark user-friendly booklet format continues,
with each Township and its major cities represented on individual
pages for greater detail. Golf courses are now highlighted in
green and depict the entire course. Landmarks, including cemeteries,
schools, museums and retail shopping, are also illustrated on
the new map. Overviews of Butler County's 22 MetroParks are again
included, but, new to this map, are city and township parks.
Perhaps the most obvious
change is the addition of color for a nicer appearance and easier
readability. "The color changes and graphic additions really
enhance this map and give it greater depth," according to
Wilkens. "The road names and communities are easier to find
and read because of these changes. We are a fast-growing, fast-paced
society, and we have plenty of motorists who need to get from
point A to point B quickly. Our new map will better enable them
to do this."
The BCEO teamed up
with Engel's Maps to do the cartography and local graphic design
artist Bill Honeycutt for the artwork and layout. "We put
a team together that has helped us produce what I believe to
be the finest Butler County map ever," Wilkens said.
The new 2003 Official
Butler County Transportation Maps are available to the general
public at no charge and can be obtained at the Butler County
Engineer's Office, the Butler County Government Services Center,
and various other locations throughout Butler County. To obtain
a copy of the new map by mail, click
here.
New Map
To Be Issued Annually
The Official Butler
County Transportation Map will now be published annually versus
every two years. Wilkens noted that "due to Butler County's
rapid growth and the addition of so many new roads, Butler County
citizens would be better served by printing a map every year
instead of every other year."
By issuing an updated
map every year, citizens will be able to have updated information
readily available. Moreover, "we looked very hard at the
cost of printing the maps every year compared to every two years,"
Wilkens said, "and we found it is just as cost-efficient
to issue 50,000 maps every year as it is to print 100,000 every
two years, because there should be fewer left over." New
maps tend to go quickly in the first year but requests taper
off during the second year.
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For more information contact:
- Chris
Petrocy, BCEO Public
Information Supervisor
- Greg
Wilkens, P.E., P.S.,
Butler County Engineer
Phone 513.867.5744 • Fax 513.867.5849
