Tiffin mayor says developer turned to annexation after Hopewell Township refused to rezone 149 acres

Tiffin mayor says developer turned to annexation after Hopewell Township refused to rezone 149 acres

TIFFIN, Ohio — A developer sought to annex roughly 149 acres of Hopewell Township into Tiffin after the township refused to rezone the farmland out of agricultural use, Mayor Lee Wilkinson said in an interview Friday. “So he approached the city to see if it was possible to annex that property so that he could get the zoning change to something that would allow him to develop,” Wilkinson said, describing the sequence as he understood it from the …