As expected, Delaware County stands to gain another state representative due to population growth, if a proposal for new legislative district lines holds up.
Liberty Township voters won’t have the opportunity to vote down a proposed housing development after all, following a ruling from the Ohio Supreme Court.
The future of a citizen-led referendum effort to block a Liberty Township housing development is now in the hands of the Supreme Court of Ohio.
Some elected officials in Delaware County have chosen to bow out of public office at the end of the year, while other familiar faces are seeking to make a return to the ballot this November. In total, 101 people filed paperwork with the Delaware County Board of Elections to run for 62 various township, school board and village and city council positions. The deadline for candidates wishing to run for local offices expiring at the end of this year passed at 4 p.m. Wednesday.
Delaware County Board of Elections worker Sally South sorts through Senate Bill 5 ballot petitions Thursday at the county election board office. Petition organizers submitted the required number of valid signatures for the repeal effort to move forward, including 12,425 signatures from Delaware County voters.
Opponents of Senate Bill 5 collected six times the necessary valid signatures in Delaware County on their way to a successful effort to place a referendum of the controversial legislation on the upcoming November ballot.
A citizen-led referendum effort to stop a Liberty Township housing development planned for the south side of the intersection of Home Road and Ohio 315 will move forward following a Monday vote from the Delaware County Board of Elections.
The Delaware County Board of Elections on Monday will consider whether Liberty Township residents will have a chance to put the brakes on plans for a 216-acre housing development along the Olentangy River. A lawyer representing the developers of the planned 148-home subdivision, to be located southwest of the corner of Ohio 315 and Home Road, has asked the Delaware County Board of Elections to throw out a resident-circulated referendum petition.