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Dayton joins ‘cool cities club,’ with law on LGBTQ protection Julia Fair Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
The Dog Park Committee has raised about $12,000 so far, said newly elected president Tim Appleton. It needs $1,000 more to move the current fence and add a fence at the bigger space behind the library. The rest of the cost falls on the foundation, which has tentative plans to build a bridge over a small creek, clear brush underneath trees to create a shaded place and install cement pads, Appleton said. Not all pup owners want the park to move. Some contributed fi nancially to the original space and don’t want to see their contributions wasted. Fromme told The Enquirer the amenities those citizens paid for such as the dog drinking fountain and benches will be moved to the new one. “We are especially appalled that the complaints of a few have convinced the city administration to end the enjoyment of dozens of Newport citizens and visitors from around the area,” states a Google Forms that has garnered over 100 signatures
DAYTON, Ky. – A round of applause fi lled the room as Dayton City Council passed an ordinance to protect LGBTQ people. Dayton City Council voted to include sexual orientation and gender identity protections in its civil rights ordinance Tuesday, Aug. 6. It guarantees everyone is protected when it comes to housing and employment opportunities – kind of. No one in the room spoke against the ordinance; only supporters spoke. The ordinance includes exemptions that allow people, in certain scenarios, to not off er equal treatment to LGBT individuals. Dayton, a city of 5,000 on the Ohio River, is the 12th Kentucky city to pass an ordinance for LGBTQ civil rights protections. Covington, which passed a similar ordinance in 2003, is the only other Northern Kentucky city on the list. The exemptions also appear in the Covington ordinance. Housing protections do not apply if: ❚ The owner or family members of the owner are living in the house or rental accommodations (apartments). ❚ The housing is provided by a religious organization. ❚ A home is sold privately without a real estate agent or or public advertising. Employment protection does not apply if: ❚ The individual is employed by parents, a spouse or child. ❚ A business is a private ‘club’ and the policies are determined by its members and its facilities are available only to its members and guests. ❚ A person works as a nurse, domestic or personal companion in the home of their employer. “I think certain people who fall into that classifi cation are off ended by those exemptions,” said Frank Warnock, author of the 2003 Covington ordinance. Dayton modeled its ordinance from Covington’s and other Kentucky cities who passed equal protection ordinances. Warnock, who is now the Bellevue City Administrator, said in “a perfect world,” there would be no exemptions. They exist to make the ordinance more palatable to people and organizations that don’t want to extend protections because of their own beliefs, Warnock said. The ordinance is still important to have, Warnock said, because it gives cities a way to show it welcomes all of its citizens.
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See LAW, Page 2A
Olivia Salvatore watches her 1-year-old pup, Kobi (right) play with his new friend Tucker (left). THE ENQUIRER / JULIA FAIR
Newport pups have to fi nd a new place to play Julia Fair Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
NEWPORT, Ky. – Recently, Kobi found a new friend, Tucker, through their shared interest in a bright orange Frisbee. But despite how much fun they had, the 1-yearold pups might never see each other again. If the dog park doesn’t move to a new location, it will cease to exist. The City of Newport insists the dog park at which they met has become too successful for its Linden Avenue location. The city donated the land for the park nine years ago, but City Manager Thomas Fromme said they were clear then that the park would move if problems began to arose. And they have, Fromme said, adding that he’s received complaints about traffi c, parking, early morning barking and excessive dust. The city got six complaints, via email, about the dog park from 2017 to this summer. The majority were sent between April and June of this year, according to a Kentucky Open Records Act request. Kentucky law exempts the city from disclosing who submitted each complaint. Some complaints don’t have a record, because they were made verbally to city offi cials, said Assistant City Attorney John Hayden in the records response letter. Fromme gave the Newport Dog Park Committee the option to move the park around the corner to the Campbell County Library, a move that would cost about $30,000, paid for in part by the Newport Dog Park Committee and the Newport Foundation. The foundation is the charitable arm of the city. Fromme said the current dog park will just go back to green space, adding that no companies are interested in developing that land. The city is working with the state to get permission to turn the space behind the library into the new dog park.
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A slideshow shows dog park concerns and a sketch of where the new park could be built behind the Campbell County Public Library in Newport. PROVIDED | TIM APPLETON
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