Warren County commissioners adopt rural zoning text amendments to clarify notices, frontage, buffers and planting rules

Warren County commissioners voted unanimously Nov. 4, 2025, to adopt a package of text amendments to the Warren County Rural Zoning Code that change public-notification procedures, add illustrations for lot frontage and panhandle lots, clarify counting of secondary dwelling units, and revise subdivision perimeter buffer and planting-season requirements.

The amendments, presented by Ray Draught of Warren County Building & Zoning, update the county’s public-notification methods to allow publication of hearings and notices on the county website and social media in lieu of newspaper advertising for text amendments; certified mailings to property owners within 500 feet for hearings remain required. Draught said doing so would reduce advertising costs and that the Ohio Revised Code does not require newspaper publication…