Cedarville

Greene County, Ohio (southwest Ohio immediately east of Dayton; ~169,000 residents as of the 2020 Census; county seat Xenia; established March 24, 1803 as one of Ohio's original counties; 12 townships - Bath, Beavercreek, Caesarscreek, Cedarville, Jefferson, Miami, New Jasper, Ross, Silvercreek, Spring Valley, Sugarcreek, Xenia; three cities (Beavercreek ~48,000, Fairborn ~33,452, Xenia ~25,976), the city of Bellbrook (~7,053), and five villages (Bowersville, Cedarville, Jamestown, Spring Valley, Yellow Springs)) is one of the minority of Ohio counties that DOES exercise county-tier zoning authority under O.R.C. Chapter 303. The Greene County Regional Planning and Coordinating Commission (GCRPCC) administers the Greene County Zoning Resolution for the seven townships that have adopted county zoning (rather than township-tier zoning under O.R.C. Chapter 519) - in practice most rural Greene County unincorporated territory falls under one of two regimes: county-tier zoning administered by GCRPCC for participating townships, or township-tier zoning for the larger townships (Beavercreek Township, Bath Township, and Sugarcreek Township each maintain township zoning resolutions and inspectors). Inside the three cities and four incorporated villages, municipal zoning controls; the county zoning resolution does not reach inside city or village corporate limits. The county also operates the Greene County Building Regulations Department, a certified building department under O.R.C. Chapter 3781 that enforces the Ohio Residential Code (OAC 4101:8) for one-, two-, and three-family dwellings across unincorporated Greene County and on a contract basis for several of the villages - this distinguishes Greene from most rural Ohio counties (where residential plan review falls to the Ohio Department of Commerce Division of Industrial Compliance). Greene County's adoption of both a county zoning resolution AND a certified county building department places it in a relatively small group of Ohio counties (with Cuyahoga, Hamilton, Franklin, Summit, Montgomery, and a few others) where land-use AND construction-code authority are both exercised at the county tier rather than deferred to state or township agencies. ADU permissibility on a given parcel in unincorporated Greene County therefore depends on (1) whether the parcel is in a township that has adopted county-tier zoning (GCRPCC administered) or township-tier zoning (Beavercreek / Bath / Sugarcreek), and (2) the specific zoning district classification. The Greene County Zoning Resolution does not list 'accessory dwelling unit' as a defined use; second dwellings on a single parcel typically require either a conditional use permit or a variance from the Greene County Board of Zoning Appeals (or the relevant township BZA where township zoning applies).

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