File #: O-285-24    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Second Reading
File created: 5/23/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 7/17/2024 Final action:
Title: Repealing Chapter 105 of the Toledo Municipal Code in its entirety, and enacting a new Chapter 105 of the Toledo Municipal Code, dividing the corporation territory of the City of Toledo into Wards; and declaring an emergency.
Sponsors: Carrie Hartman
Attachments: 1. Proposed Wards, 2. Proposed Wards with major streets, 3. Video: City Council 6/18/2024, 4. Video: Agenda Review 6/12/2024

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Repeal and Replace Chapter 105
Wards and Boundaries
Toledo City Council
Council President Hartman


Title
Repealing Chapter 105 of the Toledo Municipal Code in its entirety, and enacting a new Chapter 105 of the Toledo Municipal Code, dividing the corporation territory of the City of Toledo into Wards; and declaring an emergency.

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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
WHEREAS, Section 27 of the Charter of the City of Toledo directs City Council to redivide the City into wards after each recurring federal census on the basis of not less than 10,000 or more than 20,000 residents in each Ward; and

WHEREAS, as a result of the most recent federal census it is necessary to eliminate and combine the Wards to balance the number of residents in each Ward as required by the Charter; and

WHEREAS, there will be Sixteen Wards divided within the City of Toledo, abridged from Twenty-Four.

Summary
NOW THEREFORE Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Toledo:

SECTION 1. That Chapter 105 of the Toledo Municipal Code entitled "Wards and Boundaries" which reads as follows:
CHAPTER 105
Wards and Boundaries
105.01 Division into wards.
105.02 First Ward.
105.03 Second Ward.
105.05 Fourth Ward.
105.06 Fifth Ward.
105.07 Sixth Ward.
105.08 Seventh Ward.
105.09 Eighth Ward.
105.10 Ninth Ward.
105.11 Tenth Ward.
105.12 Eleventh Ward.
105.13 Twelfth Ward.
105.14 Thirteenth Ward.
105.15 Fourteenth Ward.
105.16 Fifteenth Ward.
105.17 Sixteenth Ward.
105.18 Seventeenth Ward.
105.19 Eighteenth Ward.
105.20 Nineteenth Ward.
105.21 Twentieth Ward.
105.22 Twenty-first Ward.
105.23 Twenty-second Ward.
105.24 Twenty-third Ward.
105.25 Twenty-fourth Ward.

CROSS REFERENCES
Division into wards - see CHTR. ? 27
Voting precincts - see Ohio R.C. 3501.18
Zoning districts and maps established - see P. & Z. Ch. 1115
Fire limits - see BLDG. Ch. 1359

105.01. Division into wards.
That corporate territory of the City is hereby divi...

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