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Land in Green, Wayne townships on way to being ag security area
Samuel Boudreau
Wednesday, July 7
KEY ACTION Approved over 800 acres in Wayne and Green townships to stay as farmland for the next 10 years.
DISCUSSION Wayne County commissioners approved two resolutions regarding farmland in Wayne and Green townships. The first resolution established a new agricultural security area (ASA) of 595.021 acres in the two townships, which includes land owned by Michael and Catherine Kauffman (130.93 acres), Jeffrey and Nancy Kauffman (120.097 acres), William Sandra and Brett Besancon (139.274 acres),and Daniel and Tonya Besancon (204.72 acres).
Kevin White, administrative assistant/planner of the Wayne County Planning Department, said the 595 acres “is its own, separate, standalone agricultural security area. The confusing part is that we already have an existing ASA in Green and Wayne townships, so this is the second one going in there.”
WOOSTER - The moment he stepped into the 19th century Victorian home, Stan Popp knew he wanted to buy it. Not for himself, but to provide six families with an affordable place to live in a town lacking such accommodations.
“We went up and I walked into that house and before we got through the house I said, ‘I want this house. I want this house,’” said Popp, the executive director of the Wayne Metropolitan Housing Authority.
Popp wasn’t originally sold on the idea. The agency’s Realtor called the director and asked him if he’d be interested in looking at a house on East Bowman Street. At first, he pictured the homes on the south side of the street, a few of which have seen better days.
But on the other hand: Hill knew Allen personally. Their now seventh-grade sons, both currently living in the Plain school system, played together on an Ohio Phenom Academy travel basketball team in 2017, and have played against each other since. And that house Allen leases on 41st Street was the only one purchased last year by the Housing Authority.
Some former and current Housing Authority employees said they believe Hill used his position to give Allen special treatment.
Last month, an anonymous letter was sent to at least some of the Housing Authority s five appointed board members advising them to dig deeper into circumstances surrounding that house, among other matters.