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City of Sidney Ordinance No. A-3226 — zoning 243.092 annexed acres in the north half of Section 3, Clinton Township, as IIM (Industry / Innovation / Manufacturing) and amending the Zoning Map to match, passed 2025-07-28
2025-07-28-ord-a-3226-zoning-243-acres-iim
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City of Sidney Ordinance No. A-3226 — zoning 243.092 annexed acres in the north half of Section 3, Clinton Township, as IIM (Industry / Innovation / Manufacturing) and amending the Zoning Map to match, passed 2025-07-28
ordinance_no
A-3226
body
Council of the City of Sidney, Ohio
body_kind
city_council
subject_matter
zoning_establishment
adopted
2025-07-28
outcome
approved
attest
I, Kari Egbert, Clerk of Council
zoning_classification
- tag verified
- district IIM
- district_name Industry / Innovation / Manufacturing Zone
- verbatim_section_1 be, and the same hereby is, zoned IIM - Industry / Innovation / Manufacturing Zone.
- verbatim_section_2 SECTION 2. That the Zoning Map for the City of Sidney, Ohio, be, and the same hereby is, amended to reflect the inclusion of such 24 3. 092 acres of land as an IIM - Industry / Innovation / Manufacturing Zone.
- transcription_note "24 3. 092" is the bound journal's scan rendered by the text layer; the figure is 243.092 and appears cleanly elsewhere in the same instrument. Quoted as extracted, not repaired.
- corroborated_by
- [verified] Council minutes 2026-02-23 — the City Planner placed the property "in the IIM - Industry/Innovation/Manufacturing Zone" while presenting Res. 14-26. A co-equal City record, and independent of this ordinance.
- [verified] Ordinance A-3227 zones the separate 53-acre county tract with the identical acronym expansion.
- note Corroboration is not the basis. The `[verified]` fact rests on THIS ordinance alone, which is the enacted operative text and needs no corroborator.
parcels
- tag verified
- verbatim being the following 5 parcels ofland; 1) Ellen D. Joslin, Trustee and Ellen D. Joslin, Successor Trustee, 23 88 Millcreek Rd., Sidney OH 45365 -Parcel Number 02-2603226.IXIl 2) Parcel 2: William W. Joslin and Ann B. Joslin, No address, Parcel Nwnber 02-2603126.001 3) Parcel 3: Maiy Ellen Drees, 2522 Millcreek Rd., … Parcel Nwnber 02-2603251.002 4) Parcel 4: Tract 1 Maiy Ellen Drees, … 02-2603201.001 5) Tract 2 Maiy Ellen Drees, … 02-2603251.001;
- transcription_note Journal-scan artifacts preserved: "ofland" for "of land", "Nwnber" for "Number", "Maiy" for "Mary", "23 88" for "2388". ⚠️ Parcel 1's suffix reads `.IXIl` in the text layer. That it is `.001` is `[inference]` — the legible prefix, the fact that it is the only unmatched predecessor, and the `2388 Millcreek Rd.` situs the corpus already carries. Recorded as a garble, NOT normalised.
- joins_the_corpus
- tag verified
- note Four of the five match the predecessor tracts the corpus already recites, digit for digit; the fifth by prefix. THE JOIN IS PARCEL IDENTITY, ABUTTERS AND SITUS — not acreage. An acreage match alone would not establish that this ordinance is about this campus.
- ⚠️_no_role_word
- tag verified
- finding The ordinance uses NO role word for any of the five persons — not "owner", not "petitioner", not "grantor", not "applicant", not "agent". The same sentence writes "owned by" for the two ABUTTERS (John A. Clark Jr., Bridget Douglas). The drafter had the word and did not use it here.
- why_it_matters These names are the closest this corpus has come to the deed grantors, and they are NOT established as grantors by this document. The Planning Commission's own case caption gives the annexation petitioner as a fourth person entirely — JACKSON B. REYNOLDS — in a capacity that record does not state. The grantors stay `[open]` until the Recorder deeds are pulled.
abutters
- tag verified
- note Parcel numbers and acreages the corpus did not have, read off the west-line call.
- entries
- name John A. Clark Jr.
- acres 6.48
- parcel 02-26-03-101-001
- name Bridget Douglas
- acres 1.49
- parcel 02-26-03-102-001
- transcription_note the text layer renders this `02-2&03-102-001`
- name Mill Creek Subdivisions Nos. 1-4
- note plat cites the corpus already carries
survey
- tag verified
- firm Farnsworth Group, Inc.
- surveyor David R. Barnhart, P.S.
- closes_at_acres 243.092
- note ⚠️ A SECOND, INDEPENDENT SURVEY of the same ground. The Development Agreement's Exhibit A is also Farnsworth but under Justin A. Bischof, P.S. #8596, closing at 243.0924. Two surveyors, two closings, agreeing to three decimals. ⚠️ Barnhart's registration number #7646 is NOT Lot 7646 (O.R. 2329/454). Unrelated identifiers that must never be conflated.
north_boundary_divergence
- tag open
- this_instrument the south right-of-way line of the New York Central Lines, LLC raikoad
- the_corpus_elsewhere the CSX Transportation right-of-way (D.V. 381 p. 290) — Res. 27-26 Exhibit A
- note [verified] as two readings; whether they name the same interest is [open]. RECORD THE DIVERGENCE, DO NOT HARMONIZE IT. ("raikoad" is the text layer's rendering of "railroad".)
vote
- roll_call_recorded no
- outcome_recorded no
- note [open] The RECORD OF ORDINANCES page carries the enacting clause, the passage date and the Attest line only — the form of the instrument, not a gap in the read. The vote is in the Council minutes of 2025-07-28, which are on the same portal and were NOT pulled in this pass. That is the next retrieval, and it is cheap.
what_this_instrument_does_not_establish
- ANY REASON. It carries no WHEREAS clauses at all and does not mention the Planning Commission, which had declined to recommend this zoning 0-4 six weeks earlier. What Council was told about that refusal is `[open]`.
- WHETHER A FAVOURABLE RECOMMENDATION WAS REQUIRED. That is a question about Ohio law and the City's own code, and no document read here answers it.
- THAT ANY OF THE FIVE NAMED PERSONS IS A GRANTOR. See `parcels.⚠️_no_role_word`.
- WHAT THE CAMPUS MAY DO ON IIM LAND. The use table lives in the zoning code (A-3219), not here.
⚠ Gaps in the record
- Clean native text layer, but the bound journal's scan drops and merges characters throughout ("ofland", "Nwnber", "Maiy", "raikoad", "24 3. 092", `.IXIl`). Every quotation above preserves them. No figure or parcel identifier is affected except the `.IXIl` suffix, which is flagged.
Where it connects
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