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Stark County planner schedules public hearings to update floodplain and animal feeding rules; data center work deferred to workshop

Stark County Planning and Zoning Commission · January 30, 2026
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Summary

County planner Steve Josephson briefed the Planning and Zoning Commission on planned ordinance amendments: update statutory references in the floodplain management ordinance, revise commercial animal feeding operation standards to align with a forthcoming state model (mainly distance requirements), correct subdivision/tree-planting inconsistencies, and plan future workshops on data centers and battery storage.

County planner Steve Josephson told the Stark County Planning and Zoning Commission on Jan. 29 that staff will bring several zoning and subdivision ordinance changes to public hearing at the commission’s next meeting.

Josephson said he is preparing an edited copy of the zoning ordinance to include amendments from the past year and will post it online and mail hard copies to commissioners. "We'll post that. And also, I'll mail out hard copies of that to, you know, to the planning and zoning, the planning and zoning commissioners," he said.

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