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Summit County Council to ask state Legislature to repeal preliminary municipality pilot program - Park Record

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The Summit County Council plans to ask the state Legislature to repeal the law that created the preliminary municipality pilot program, which allows developers of privately owned land to incorporate as a town and oversee land use decisions. A preliminary municipality can transition to, and incorporate as, a town under a state law that took effect in 2024.

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