Coshocton

Coshocton County, Ohio (rural Appalachian-edge county at the confluence of the Tuscarawas and Walhonding rivers forming the Muskingum River; ~36,000 residents; county seat City of Coshocton; 22 townships - Adams, Bedford, Bethlehem, Clark, Crawford, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Keene, Lafayette, Linton, Mill Creek, Monroe, New Castle, Oxford, Perry, Pike, Tiverton, Tuscarawas, Virginia, Washington, and White Eyes; incorporated places City of Coshocton (statutory city, ~11,121 residents), Villages of West Lafayette, Warsaw, Conesville, Plainfield, and Nellie) does NOT operate a countywide zoning ordinance under O.R.C. Chapter 303 and has not adopted county-tier residential land-use regulation. Ohio is a home-rule state under Article XVIII of the Ohio Constitution; counties may adopt county zoning under O.R.C. Chapter 303 but most do not (Lake County is the canonical Ohio county that does), and Coshocton County has not. Townships in Coshocton County may adopt zoning resolutions under O.R.C. Chapter 519, but as of 2026-05 most Coshocton County townships have NO township zoning resolution in force, leaving unincorporated parcels effectively unzoned for land-use purposes. The county does not operate a residential building department; residential plan review and inspection for one- and two-family dwellings in unincorporated Coshocton County falls to the Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Industrial Compliance (DIC) under the Ohio Residential Code (OAC 4101:8). Commercial construction is handled by the Mid-East Ohio Building Department, a regional certified building department headquartered in Zanesville (Muskingum County) that serves Coshocton plus Belmont, Guernsey, Morgan, and Perry counties under interagency contract. The county's coordinating planning body is the Coshocton County Regional Planning Commission (RPC), led by Joshua D. Kempf, P.E., P.S. (who also serves as Coshocton County Engineer); the RPC reviews subdivision plats and property divisions under the county's adopted Subdivision Regulations (last revised 2017) but does not regulate ADU use or impose ADU-specific standards. ADU permissibility in unincorporated Coshocton County therefore turns on (1) whether the parcel is in a township with zoning (a minority), (2) whether the parcel is inside city or village limits (in which case the City of Coshocton, West Lafayette, Warsaw, Conesville, Plainfield, or Nellie code applies), and (3) whether the parcel can support a second septic field under OAC 3701-29 capacity rules administered by the Coshocton Public Health District.

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