ADU Pass
Woodstock
ADU Pass helps homeowners in Woodstock, Champaign County, Ohio navigate the permit paperwork for building an accessory dwelling unit. This area covers 1 ZIP code.
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Champaign County — county ADU rules and overlays
County ADU ordinance
Champaign County, Ohio (west-central Ohio between Springfield and Bellefontaine; ~38,800 residents; county seat Urbana; 12 townships - Adams, Concord, Goshen, Harrison, Jackson, Johnson, Mad River, Rush, Salem, Union, Urbana, Wayne; one city (Urbana) and ten villages or census-designated places (Cable, Casstown, Christiansburg, Conover, Mechanicsburg, Mingo, North Lewisburg, Rosewood, Saint Paris, Woodstock)) does NOT operate a countywide zoning resolution under O.R.C. Chapter 303. Ohio is a home-rule state under Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution; counties may adopt county-tier rural zoning under O.R.C. Chapter 303 but only a small minority do (Lake County is the canonical example), and Champaign County has never adopted one. Land-use zoning in unincorporated Champaign County is delegated under O.R.C. Chapter 519 to each of the twelve townships, all of which DO maintain their own township zoning resolutions and zoning inspectors (Adams - Jon Marquis; Concord, Goshen - Wayne Russell; Harrison; Jackson; Johnson; Mad River - Greg McGlaun; Rush; Salem; Union; Urbana Township; Wayne - Randy Moore - per the county's published zoning-inspector roster). Inside the city of Urbana and the ten villages, municipal zoning controls. Champaign County does, however, operate a certified Champaign County Building Regulations Department (1512 S. U.S. Hwy. 68, Bay 13, Urbana - 937-484-1602) that enforces the Ohio Residential Code (OAC 4101:8) for one-, two-, and three-family dwellings across the unincorporated county and on a contractual basis for several of the villages - this distinguishes Champaign from Adams County and most other rural Ohio counties, where the Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Industrial Compliance is the residential plan reviewer of last resort. Subdivision review in the unincorporated county is handled by the Logan-Union-Champaign Regional Planning Commission (LUC RPC, headquartered in East Liberty) under the county's adopted subdivision regulations. ADU permissibility on a given parcel in unincorporated Champaign County is therefore set by the township zoning resolution applicable to that parcel; township resolutions in Champaign County generally do not include 'accessory dwelling unit' as a permitted accessory use and typically treat a second dwelling as requiring a Board of Zoning Appeals variance or conditional use - although the specifics vary township by township.
County regulatory overlays
Federal (United States) — ADU-relevant rules and programs
Federal ADU law
The United States has no federal statute that directly regulates accessory dwelling unit entitlement or design. Land-use authority over ADUs resides with states and local governments under the traditional police power. Federal engagement is limited to financing (Fannie/Freddie/FHA/VA/USDA), flood insurance (FEMA/NFIP), and discretionary housing programs (HUD), which are recorded in sibling sections of this file.
Federal financing programs
Federal housing-finance agencies and GSEs set nationwide underwriting rules that govern whether an ADU can be financed, appraised, and counted toward mortgage qualifying income. The relevant actors are Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA (HUD), VA, and USDA Rural Development.
Federal tax credits
There is no ADU-specific federal tax credit. ADUs may incidentally qualify for existing federal energy-efficiency and clean-energy tax credits when the ADU construction includes qualifying measures.
Federal housing programs
HUD administers several discretionary programs that can fund ADU-related activity at the grantee's election, but none is an ADU-specific program.
ZIP Code
- 43084
Post Office
- 111 Burnwell St, 43084