Board of Commissioners v. City of Cincinnati

{¶ 1} This is the second appeal in a dispute over the zoning of property owned by plaintiff-appellant, the Board of Commissioners of Hamilton County, located inside the boundaries of defendant/third-party plaintiff-appellee, the city of Cincinnati. Upon remand from this court’s decision in the first appeal, rather than resolve the equities of the zoning issue, the trial court entered summary judgment for the city and invalidated the 1997 transfer of the property from the third-party defendant-appellant, the state of Ohio, to the county.

{¶ 2} In these consolidated appeals, the county, in the…