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Seven Hills council adopts Rockside Road TIF districts as emergency
Summary
At its May 27 meeting the Seven Hills City Council passed amended Ordinance 19-2025, creating Rockside Road tax-increment financing incentive districts, exempting certain parcel improvements from real-property taxation and requiring service payments in lieu of taxes with a portion distributed to Parma City School District.
The Seven Hills City Council passed amended Ordinance 19-2025 as an emergency measure at its May 27 meeting, creating Rockside Road tax increment financing (TIF) incentive districts and declaring improvements to parcels within each district a public purpose exempt from real-property taxation.
The ordinance requires owners of parcels within the newly created incentive districts to make service payments in lieu of taxes and establishes a municipal public improvement tax-increment equivalent fund to receive those payments. The measure also specifies that a portion of the service payments will be distributed to the Parma City School District.
Councilman Morrow moved to pass the amended ordinance as an emergency measure; the motion was carried on roll call and the amended ordinance was passed. The council had earlier voted to suspend the rules and read the ordinance by title for its first, third and final reading.
Council discussion on the ordinance was brief in the public record; no separate amendment to the ordinance language was recorded during the meeting. The ordinance text presented at the meeting describes the creation of the Rockside Road incentive districts, the TIF-style service payments, the municipal fund for deposits, and the school district distribution provision.
The ordinance takes effect immediately under the emergency clause adopted by the council; any administrative implementation steps (such as deposit to the tax-increment equivalent fund or coordination with the Parma City School District) were not detailed during the meeting.
