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Middleton Township Trustees — rezoning of approximately 44 acres from A-1 Agricultural to M-1 Industrial, owned by the Busch family, 2023-05-03
2023-05-03-busch-rezoning
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instrument
Middleton Township Trustees — rezoning of approximately 44 acres from A-1 Agricultural to M-1 Industrial, owned by the Busch family, 2023-05-03
body
Board of Trustees, Middleton Township, Wood County, Ohio
body_kind
township_trustees
subject_matter
zoning
statute
R.C. 519.12
meeting_date
2023-05-03
meeting_kind
special
convened
17:45
adjourned
17:50
outcome
approved
date_discrepancy
- tag [verified]
- filename_says 2022-05-03
- document_says 2023-05-03
- resolution The document's own heading reads "Wednesday, May 3, 2023". May 3 fell on a Wednesday in 2023 and on a Tuesday in 2022. The minutes recite Wood County Planning Commission approval on 2023-03-07 and Middleton Township Zoning Commission approval on 2023-04-12, both after the filename's year. The township filed the PDF in its 2023/08 upload directory. The content-verified date is 2023-05-03 and the file is NOT renamed.
vote
- motion "to approve the rezoning request for approximately 44 acres from A-1 Agricultural to M-1 Industrial, owned by the Busch family"
- motion_moved_by Donald E. Cromley
- motion_seconded_by Michael Moulton
- roll_call
- trustee Donald E. Cromley
- vote YES
- trustee Michael Moulton
- vote YES
- trustee Fred E. Vetter
- vote abstain
- tally 2-0-1
applicant
- property_owner Busch family
- parcels —
- acres_approx 44
recommendations
- body Wood County Planning Commission
- date 2023-03-07
- recommendation approve
- note [verified] "voted unanimously to approve"
- body Middleton Township Zoning Commission
- date 2023-04-12
- recommendation approve
- note [verified] "approved the rezoning by unanimous vote"
disclosures
- id VETTER-ABSTENTION
- tag [verified]
- statement Trustee Fred E. Vetter abstained. He abstained again on the 2024-11-20 Victoria Busch rezoning of ~91 acres, and did not abstain on the 2026-07-07 Liames rezoning, where he voted NO on the motion to adopt the zoning commission's denial.
- note RECORDED AS A PATTERN IN THE ROLL CALLS, NOT AS A FINDING. The minutes state no reason for either abstention and this corpus supplies none. An abstention on both Busch matters and participation on the Liames matter is a fact about the record; any interest that would explain it is [open] and would be established by an Ohio Ethics Commission disclosure or a deed, neither of which is in the corpus.
- id ALSO-PRESENT
- tag [verified]
- statement "Also, in attendance was Rex Huffman and Ross Fought." Huffman appears again at the 2024-11-20 rezonings as the Wood County Port Authority's representative FOR the private sellers, and in the county journal of 2023-09-28 as Northwestern Water & Sewer District legal counsel. Fought is the resident who objected to the CRA abatement before both the county and the township that autumn.
Where it connects
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