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City of Sidney Ordinance No. A-3211 — annexing a 53-acre tract from the Shelby County Commissioners under R.C. 709.16, as an emergency measure, passed 2025-03-10
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City of Sidney Ordinance No. A-3211 — annexing a 53-acre tract from the Shelby County Commissioners under R.C. 709.16, as an emergency measure, passed 2025-03-10
ordinance_no
A-3211
body
Council of the City of Sidney, Ohio
body_kind
city_council
subject_matter
annexation
adopted
2025-03-10
outcome
approved
statutory_authority
- tag verified
- cited R.C. 709.16
- verbatim The undersigned petitioner, the Council of the City Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio (the "Petitioner") … hereby petitions to annex the Territory … pursuant to Ohio Revised Code Section 709.16, said actions being authorized by Ordinance No. A-3211 .
- ⚠️_the_contrast [verified] THE CITY COUNCIL IS ITSELF THE PETITIONER here. On the campus annexation (A-3225) the City merely ACCEPTED, cited no R.C. 709 provision at all, and rested on a Clinton Township Annexation Agreement not in this corpus. Two annexations, five months apart, same Council, opposite postures. ⚠️ What R.C. 709.16 provides is outside these documents and is not asserted.
emergency_clause
- tag verified
- verbatim SECTION 3. That it is hereby determined to be an emergency measure, necessary to protect the health, safety, and well-being of the citizens as it is imperative to meet the necessity of expeditiously meeting the deadline for the next meeting of the Shelby County Board of Commissioners.
- note [verified] The only emergency declaration among the four land ordinances. An emergency removes the referendum window. ⚠️ The boilerplate recites health and safety; THE STATED REASON IS A CALENDAR. Record the gap between the two rather than either alone.
territory
- tag verified
- parcel 02-2603-476.001
- verbatim The Territory proposed to be annexed is identified as Parcel Number 02-2603-476.001, and is contiguous with the City of Sidney, Ohio.
- acreage_note The ordinance TITLE says 53.083. Its companion zoning ordinance A-3227 says 53.16 in its title and §2 while its surveyed description says 53.083. See that extraction for the four-way split.
sequencing_observation
- tag verified
- note This ordinance's body says the City "is working toward an Annexation Agreement" with Clinton Township, while its attached Petition recites that a certified executed copy is attached as Exhibit C — and A-3225 later dates that agreement to "on or about March 24, 2025", two weeks AFTER this passage. ⚠️ The Petition is UNDATED on its face, so this is a sequencing observation and NOT a contradiction. Exhibit C is also a recital — the City's own account of a document nobody has read.
vote
- roll_call_recorded no
- outcome_recorded no
- note [open] Instrument form only; the 2025-03-10 Council minutes are unpulled.
what_this_instrument_does_not_establish
- ANYTHING ABOUT THE AWS CAMPUS. Different tract, different petitioner, four months earlier.
- THE CONTENTS OF THE ANNEXATION AGREEMENT. Exhibit C is recited, not read; the exhibits are image-only.
⚠ Gaps in the record
- The attached survey exhibits are image-only and were not read. Every claim above is from the text-layer body or Petition.
Where it connects
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