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Mount Orab council refers repeal of contested emergency zoning change to planning commission after resident testimony
Summary
After sustained public comment about a proposed 1,200‑acre data‑center project and legal concerns about how a 2024 emergency zoning change was adopted, the Mount Orab Village Council voted unanimously to send a proposed ordinance to rescind that change to the planning commission for review and public hearing.
Mount Orab — The Village Council voted unanimously on March 24 to refer to the planning commission a proposed ordinance (filed as 13‑42) that would rescind an emergency zoning amendment passed in 2024, after residents and council members raised procedural and substantive concerns and read an impact statement from a local business owner.
The motion to refer followed a long public comment period during which residents questioned transparency around zoning bodies and pressed the council to seek direct answers from a now‑unnamed developer proposed to build a large data‑center near the village. Anna Howe, a council member who presented the rescission ordinance, said the 2024 change did not follow required planning‑commission notice and public‑hearing steps and that outside legal advice supplied to the village was incomplete.
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