Trotwood council adopts three ordinances: comprehensive plan update and new wait-period rules for resubmissions and variances

Trotwood City Council voted to adopt three planning and zoning ordinances that the administration and planning commission had recommended.

OR 02-25: The council accepted the planning commission’s recommendation to repeal the 1999 comprehensive land use plan and enact a new comprehensive land use plan (identified in the transcript as the 02/2025 comprehensive land use plan) and to replace section 1103.05 of the city code. The Deputy City Manager presented the measure with the statement that council recommendations were incorporated. The ordinance passed on a motion and recorded voice votes of: Vice Mayor Brown — yes; Council member Moore — yes; Council member Gales — yes; Council member Clark — yes; Council member Finley — yes; Council member Pearson — yes; Mayor Page — yes.

OR 03-25: Council approved changes to section 1125.08 (zoning text and map amendments) to add a 12-month waiting period for resubmissions when an application is not substantially different from a previous submission, unless significant alterations are made. The measure passed by the same roll-call voice votes recorded as unanimous “yes.”

OR 04-25: The council adopted revisions to chapter 1129 (variances) to add a 12-month wait period for reapplication and to include decision standards for variance consideration. The Deputy City Manager noted the ordinance follows the same premise as OR 03-25. Council recorded unanimous “yes” votes and no public comments were noted on these measures in the transcript.

Each ordinance was presented with limited discussion, no recorded public comments during the hearing for those items, and passed by voice vote with no dissent recorded in the transcript. The transcript does not include ordinance numbers beyond the internal IDs OR 02-25, OR 03-25 and OR 04-25, nor does it record the exact statutory text beyond the described code sections; staff or the legislative clerk should be consulted for the official ordinance documents and code amendments.