WHEREAS, Section 713.06 of the Ohio Revised Code provides that Ohio municipalities “may frame and adopt a plan for zoning and land use;” and

WHEREAS, the city of Oakwood has adopted such a plan at several times throughout its history, initially through the city’s first comprehensive zoning ordinance adopted in 1952 (Ord. No. 1724), and subsequently through the 1989 comprehensive planning effort, the 2000 zoning ordinance rewrite (Ord. No. 4471), and the 2004 comprehensive planning effort; and

WHEREAS, both comprehensive planning efforts were accomplished via extensive study and collaboration among Comprehensive Planning Committees that included outside expert consultants as well as members of Oakwood City Council, city officials, and numerous Oakwood residents and business representatives; and

WHEREAS, those comprehensive planning efforts culminated in the publication of two documents, the 1989 Comprehensive Plan and its subsequent update known as the 2004 Comprehensive Plan, which were intended to serve as the city’s official policy guide for physical development addressing the use of land, the movement of vehicles and pedestrians, the protection of community character, and the provision of parks, schools, and other public facilities; and

WHEREAS, city staff recently reviewed the 2004 Comprehensive Plan, and progress towards the Goals and Objectives set forth therein, and presented the same in detail to the Oakwood Planning Commission at its meeting of October 5, 2022; and

WHEREAS, in reviewing the 2004 Comprehensive Plan, city staff noted that Oakwood remains landlocked and is essentially fully developed; and

WHEREAS, following the presentation, the Planning Commission adopted a motion to acknowledge and accept the report and accomplishments towards the Comprehensive Plan goals and objectives; and

WHEREAS, the Planning Commission also noted that Oakwood is a mature, established community that values its history and preservation of its stability and ambience over systematic, and/or rapid, dynamic change, and on that basis adopted a motion to recognize the 2004 Comprehensive Plan of the city of Oakwood as a document of continuing validity as the city’s official policy guide for physical development addressing the use of land, the movement of vehicles and pedestrians, the protection of community character, and the provision of parks, schools, and other public facilities; and further, to recommend that Council ratify the same prospectively, consistent with that determination; and

WHEREAS, the City Manager has reviewed the 2004 Comprehensive Plan in a presentation before Council, and having considered the same, Council wishes to accept the recommendation of the Planning Commission;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF OAKWOOD, OHIO, THAT:

Council hereby accepts the reported accomplishments towards the Comprehensive Plan Goals and Objectives.

Council hereby concurs with the Planning Commission’s characterization of Oakwood as a mature, established community that values its history and preservation of its stability and ambience over systematic, and/or rapid, dynamic change.

Council hereby ratifies and recognizes the 2004 Comprehensive Plan of the city of Oakwood, including the Vision Statement and all component parts thereof, as a document of continuing validity as the city’s official policy guide for physical development addressing the use of land, the movement of vehicles and pedestrians, the protection of community character, and the provision of parks, schools, and other public facilities.

It is hereby found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this resolution were adopted in an open meeting of this Council and that all deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal action were in compliance with all legal requirements including Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code.