Major Redistricting & Rezoning News

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☘️ Our 17-Year-Old Almost Made the US Open. Almost.

☘️ Rezoning Date Is Now Set. Dublin’s West Side Is Already Upset.

☘️ The Redistricting Just Got Bigger Than You Thought

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Evan Menges didn't punch his ticket to Shinnecock Hills yesterday. The Dublin Jerome rising senior shot rounds of 77 and 71 at Lakes Golf and Country Club in Westerville — Golf's Longest Day — and missed the cut in a field where the qualifying line was around 6 under. It wasn't his day.

But let's be clear about what he did. At 17, he was the youngest player in the entire field. He'd already won his local qualifier with an 8-under 64, beating a field of touring professionals and elite amateurs to get there. He lined up yesterday against players who make their living doing this and competed on the biggest amateur stage in golf. That's not a consolation prize — that's a genuinely remarkable thing for a Dublin kid to do before his senior year.

The spots at the Westerville site went to PGA Tour veteran Austin Eckroat and Ohio State rising junior Vaughn Harber among others — both qualified for the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills next week. Evan's name wasn't on that list. But it will be worth watching in the years ahead.

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A zoning fight that was tabled last year is back in front of Dublin City Council, and west side residents are making clear they haven't changed their minds. The city is proposing to rezone 370 acres on Dublin's west side from residential to industrial, creating what it's calling a West Innovation District for advanced manufacturing, offices, and warehouses.

When the proposal came back to council this week, residents packed chambers in red to signal their opposition. Their concerns haven't changed — safety, traffic, and what industrial neighbors would do to their property values. One resident put it simply: her kids ride their bikes around the neighborhood now, and she's not sure that stays the same if this passes.

The city did come back with modifications. The east 144 acres of the proposal now include a new zoning category with lower building heights, noise standards, and stricter design requirements — concessions that came directly from a year of resident feedback. But the west side of the district gets none of those protections. Residents say that misses the point entirely, and the split treatment has only deepened the opposition.

The vote is July 1st. If you live on Dublin's west side — or care about how the city grows — this is the one to watch. NBC4 has more on the story here.

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If you assumed Dublin's redistricting conversation was just about the three high schools, Monday night's board meeting changed that. Buried in the superintendent's report — without a formal announcement or community input process — was the news that elementary and middle school attendance boundaries will also be redrawn, with all three levels presented simultaneously at the June 29th board meeting. The maps covering every school in the district, from kindergarten through twelfth grade, drop in three weeks.

The district's reasoning is efficiency — the same consulting firm already in the data from the high school process will draw the elementary and middle boundaries at the same time, with changes taking effect for the 2027-28 school year. But for families who thought this process didn't affect them, it does now. Several parents watching the meeting said they missed the announcement entirely. It came and went in about two minutes.

Also approved Monday: the district is purchasing approximately 12 acres of land adjacent to Depp Middle School in Jerome Village from Nationwide Realty for $1.55 million — slightly under the appraised value. The district says the land is intended to support growth in that area. Some community members have raised questions about the timing of the purchase, given Nationwide's significant undeveloped holdings in Jerome Village and the ongoing redistricting process. The district has not addressed those questions publicly.

Worth watching as June 29th approaches: several community members are already asking whether this level of capacity planning — new boundaries at every grade level, land purchases in growth corridors — signals a levy or bond measure on the horizon for 2027. The district hasn't said that. But the question is being asked.

The June 29th board meeting is the one to watch. That's when the maps become real.

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