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Middleton Township Trustees — campus-adjacent rezoning matters, 2024-11-20 and 2025-09-09 (one approved, three withdrawn)
2024-2025-adjacent-rezonings
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Middleton Township Trustees — campus-adjacent rezoning matters, 2024-11-20 and 2025-09-09 (one approved, three withdrawn)
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Board of Trustees, Middleton Township, Wood County, Ohio
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township_trustees
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zoning
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R.C. 519.12
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- id BUSCH-91AC-2024
- meeting_date 2024-11-20
- convened 19:30
- adjourned 19:35
- applicant Victoria Busch
- represented_by "Rex Hoffman, Wood County Port Authority and representative for Victoria Busch" [verified] — note the county journal of 2023-09-28 renders the surname "Huffman"; both spellings are carried and neither is corrected.
- acres_approx 91
- parcels
- J36-611-290000008000
- J36-611-290000007000
- from_zoning A-1 Agricultural
- to_zoning M-1 Light Industrial
- outcome approved
- vote
- motion_moved_by Michael Moulton
- motion_seconded_by Donald E. Cromley
- roll_call
- trustee Donald E. Cromley
- vote YES
- trustee Michael Moulton
- vote YES
- trustee Fred E. Vetter
- vote abstain
- tally 2-0-1
- recommendations
- body Wood County Planning Commission
- recommendation approve
- body Middleton Township Zoning Commission
- recommendation approve
- disclosure
- tag [verified]
- statement_verbatim "Rex Hoffman, Wood County Port Authority and representative for Victoria Busch stated no buyers are known for the property."
- note NINETY-ONE ACRES REZONED TO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL WITH NO BUYER ON THE RECORD, brought by a public port authority acting for a private seller. Recorded as stated. Whether a buyer later appeared is [open] — neither parcel is in the committed data/reference/bowling-green/parcel-assemblage.geojson, which carries only the twelve Liames parcels plus the Schaller, Apollo-situs and Oppidan tracts.
- id SDT1-68AC-2024
- meeting_date 2024-11-20
- convened 19:00
- adjourned 19:20
- applicant SDT1 Properties, LLC
- applicant_name_variants
- SDT1 Properties, LLC
- STD1
- applicant_name_note BOTH SPELLINGS APPEAR ON THE SAME PAGE — "SDT1 Properties, LLC" in the legal-notice recital and "representative for STD1" in the appearance line; the township's own filename says STD1. The registered name is [open] and the Ohio Secretary of State search that would settle it is access-blocked (see record-watch.yaml). Neither is corrected.
- represented_by Rex Hoffman, Wood County Port Authority
- acres_approx 68
- parcels
- J36-611-200000016500
- J36-611-200000015000
- J36-611-200401010000
- J36-611-200401011000
- J36-611-200401012000
- from_zoning A-1 Agricultural
- to_zoning M-1 Light Industrial
- outcome withdrawn
- outcome_detail [verified] "Rex Hoffman, Wood County Port Authority and representative for STD1 stated the application for rezoning is being withdrawn." The county planning commission had recommended approval; the township zoning commission had not. "The Trustees took no action." Withdrawn AT the hearing, after both recommendation bodies had ruled.
- location_note [verified] from the 2024-08-21 minutes, when the application was first reported: "approximately 67 acres on multiple parcels on St. Rt. 582 east of Interstate 75." The acreage is given as ~67 there and ~68 in the legal notice three months later.
- id ECKEL-SPECK-2025
- meeting_date 2025-09-09
- convened 19:05
- adjourned 19:08
- applicants
- name Eckel Trustees
- acres_approx 75
- name Speck Trustee
- acres_approx 37
- from_zoning A-1 Agricultural
- to_zoning M-1 Light Industrial
- parcels —
- outcome withdrawn
- outcome_detail [verified] The zoning inspector "provided the Trustees with two separate letters from the property owners who have requested rezoning ... Each letter stated intent to withdraw the rezoning request effective Monday, September 8, 2025" — the day before the hearing. The legal notice had been published in the Sentinel-Tribune on 2025-08-27. The trustees moved to accept the withdrawals; the meeting ran three minutes.
- note These are the two applications the 2026-01-07 minutes describe as "pulled by the applicants and to date have not been resubmitted to the zoning commission." Why they were pulled is [open] — the letters are not published and the minutes give no reason.
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- tag [inference]
- statement 91 + 68 + 75 + 37 = 271 acres of A-1 land brought toward M-1 by four separate landowners around this campus between August 2024 and September 2025, of which 91 were rezoned and 180 were withdrawn before a vote. Arithmetic on [verified] figures; the figures are the minutes' own approximations ("approximately"), so the total is approximate too.
- do_not_read_as NOT a Meta land assembly. None of these four applicants is Liames, none of the named parcels is in the committed assemblage, and the only one with a stated buyer position said there was none. What the pattern establishes is a market forming around a disclosed campus, which is a different and weaker claim than assembly — and it is the weaker claim this corpus makes.
Where it connects
bowling-green/middleton-township/2024-2025-adjacent-rezonings.resolution.yaml · p.1 · bowling-green