Moore v. City of Middletown

*56{¶ 1} In this appeal, we return to territory recently visited in Clifton v. Blanchester, 131 Ohio St.3d 287, 2012-Ohio-780, 964 N.E.2d 414. There, we held that property owners asserting a regulatory-taking claim lack standing to bring a mandamus action against a municipality to compel appropriation when the affected property is outside the municipality’s corporate limits. Id. at ¶ 24 and 29.

{¶ 2} In this appeal, we are presented with a more complex question. The appellants here are property owners who allege that a foreign municipality rezoned land that lies in the municipality, but that is…