Record · Local legislation
City of Van Wert Ordinance 26-05-030 — amending the City zoning map to designate 901.698 ± acres I-2 General Industrial on a conditional zoning petition filed under Code of Ordinances §150.12(C), passed as an emergency on first and final reading 2026-05-11
2026-05-11-ord-26-05-030-conditional-zoning
Fields
instrument
City of Van Wert Ordinance 26-05-030 — amending the City zoning map to designate 901.698 ± acres I-2 General Industrial on a conditional zoning petition filed under Code of Ordinances §150.12(C), passed as an emergency on first and final reading 2026-05-11
ordinance_no
26-05-030
body
Council of the City of Van Wert, Ohio
body_kind
city_council
committee
Judiciary and Annexation
subject_matter
rezoning
adopted
2026-05-11
outcome
approved
emergency
yes
readings
first and final (statutory rules suspended)
petition_filed
2026-03-09
title_verbatim
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CITY OF VAN WERT ZONING MAP BY APPROVING A CONDITIONAL ZONING PETITION FILED PURSUANT TO VAN WERT CODE OF ORDINANCES SECTION 150.12 (C) TO DESIGNATE CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY CONSISTING OF 901.698+/- ACRES WITH THE I-2, GENERAL INDUSTRIAL ZONING CLASSIFICATION AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
effect
Classifies the 901.698 ± acres as I-2 General Industrial and requires the buffering in Exhibit C where development differs from adjacent residential use.
conditions_exhibit_c
- tag verified
- source 26-05-030.pdf p. 11
- summary A minimum six-foot mound along each perimeter boundary abutting residentially used or zoned property, carrying a mixed deciduous/evergreen/shrub landscape buffer reaching 75% opacity five years after planting to a total height of 12 feet above ground level. Installed within the minimum pavement setback, may extend inward. A parcel separated only by a public street right-of-way still counts as abutting. Utilities and access drives may cross the buffer. Required ONLY where a parking area, structure, building or permanent equipment will sit within 1,000 linear feet of the shared perimeter. Installed by the earlier of 60 days after pavement, or before any vertical construction.
- what_it_does_not_contain [verified] This is the whole of Exhibit C, and Exhibit C is the whole of the "conditional" in the conditional zoning. It sets NO noise limit, NO height limit, NO water-supply or discharge condition, NO hours-of-construction limit, NO lighting standard, and no setback beyond the zoning minimum. Read this as a recorded absence in the instrument — the City may hold such conditions elsewhere (a development agreement, a building permit), and none is in the corpus.
vote
- roll_call_recorded no
- as_recorded_verbatim "Agler seconded; all concurred. Ordinance passed."
- note [verified] NO NUMERIC TALLY — a second and "all concurred", not a roll call and not a count.
source_pages
- body 26-05-030-draft-ordinance.pdf pp. 0-1
- exhibits 26-05-030.pdf pp. 0-11
- passage 5.11.26.pdf p. 4
what_this_instrument_does_not_establish
- THE CONDITIONS ARE A LANDSCAPE MOUND AND NOTHING ELSE. See `conditions_exhibit_c .what_it_does_not_contain`. A reader who sees "conditional zoning" and infers a negotiated set of operating limits will be wrong about this instrument.
- IT NAMES NO OPERATOR AND NO LOAD. The ordinance rezones acreage; it states no megawatt figure, no water demand and no tenant.
⚠ Gaps in the record
- The source PDF is an UNSIGNED pre-passage upload with an unfilled passage clause, posted four days before the vote. Passage rests on the approved minutes.
- Read entirely by OCR of page images; the Exhibit-A pages are photocopies of photocopies and needed 450-500 DPI re-renders. There is no text layer to check against.
Where it connects
van-wert/council/2026-05-11-ord-26-05-030-conditional-zoning.resolution.yaml · p.1 · van-wert