Set Products, Inc. v. Bainbridge Township Board of Zoning Appeals

We are faced with two issues in this appeal: whether the doctrine of res judicata applies to the decisions of a township board of zoning appeals relating to variances, and if so, whether appellees demonstrated sufficient changed circumstances to avoid application of the doctrine in this case. We hold that res judicata is applicable to the grant or denial of a variance pursuant to R.C. 519.14(B), and operated to bar the April 1984 application by appellees, for the reasons which follow.

*263This court has held that res judicata, whether issue preclusion or claim preclusion, applies to those…