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Residents accuse Mount Orab officials of procedural lapses and potential conflicts over zoning, data-center site
Summary
During public comment, resident James O'Connell alleged multiple procedural defects, potential conflicts of interest tied to Site 416 and adjacent trust-owned land, and said he has referred documents to state oversight offices; another resident, Joe McGrath, criticized spot zoning and lack of public notice for a storage-unit conversion in a residential neighborhood.
At the Mount Orab Village Council meeting, multiple residents used the public-comment period to raise procedural and zoning complaints tied to recent development activity, including a proposed data-center site and related wastewater infrastructure.
James O'Connell introduced himself and said his remarks were based on public records and council minutes. He requested certified copies of certain records and asserted the village had not complied with sunshine (open-records) laws. O'Connell cited what he described as procedural defects in the village’s Community Reinvestment Area (CRA) documents and the zoning-manual rewrite, and said he had referred materials to the Ohio Department of Development, the Ohio auditor’s office, the Ohio attorney general, the Brown County prosecutor and the Ohio ethics commission. He told the council he had drafted a sunshine lawsuit and planned…
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