Residents voice environmental and access concerns over proposed land swap with Twinsburg City School District

A proposed land exchange between the city and the Twinsburg City School District drew public comment at the April 8 Twinsburg City Council meeting as Resolution 40-20-25 stood on its second reading.

Residents raised environmental, financial and access concerns about trading two parcels in Lot 44, described in public comment as currently wooded, for the Dodge property, which school-district materials value higher. Robert Pachelet, a Twinsburg resident, called the resolution “narrowly written” and warned the woodland parcels serve a densely populated area that currently lacks another public space of similar size.

Pachelet said the city-valued woodlands at $493,380, compared with the Dodge property at $837,570—a difference he calculated as $344,190—and told…