Zoning, building permits and septic rules in Miami Township, Ohio

Miami Township’s own rules

• Local zoningPresent (with conditions)

  Land inside Miami Township, Logan County, Ohio.

  • The Township page directs inquiries concerning permits and zoning to its named zoning contact and directs readers to LUC for rates and zoning regulations.

  “Miami Township, Logan County, Ohio [...] Miami Township is zoned. Please contact Mathew Duckro for information regarding the need for permits and questions regarding zoning.”

Rules another office applies inside Miami Township

Miami Township does not set these itself; the county, a health district or the state does, and they apply to every address inside its limits.

• Building permitRequired

  Residential construction, enlargement, alteration, repair, relocation, or occupancy change inside Miami Township when a certified residential building department has jurisdiction.

  • The rule applies to work regulated by the Residential Code of Ohio and requires application to, and approval from, the official of a certified residential building department.
  • The cited Residential Code provides that if no municipal, township, or county residential building department certified by the Board of Building Standards has jurisdiction, the owner is not required to submit construction documents, seek approvals, request inspections, or obtain certificates of occupancy under that chapter.
  • Logan County Building Authority states that all building-request applications must have a zoning permit, health-department approval, and floodplain determination; sanitary-sewer review is needed when work is around Indian Lake.

  “Any owner or authorized agent who intends to construct, enlarge, alter, repair, move, or change the occupancy of a residential building or structure, or portion thereof, or to erect, install, enlarge, alter, repair, remove, convert or replace any electrical, gas, mechanical, plumbing system, other residential building service equipment, or piping system the installation of which is regulated by this code, or to cause any such work to be done, shall first make application to the residential building official of a certified residential building department and obtain the required approval.”

• Who permits septicLocal (with conditions)

  New or altered household sewage treatment systems and small-flow on-site sewage treatment systems inside Miami Township, Logan County, Ohio, that treat no more than 1,000 gallons of sewage per day.

  • The Logan County Health District permits and inspects new or altered systems that treat no more than 1,000 gallons per day.
  • All new, altered, or replacement sewage-treatment-system designs must have a soil evaluation completed by an approved soil scientist that is no more than five years old.
  • The Health District states that all existing and new STSs in the county must have an operation-and-maintenance permit renewing on a one-, five-, or ten-year period based on system type.
  • Ohio law places townships and villages in each county within a general health district.

  maximum sewage treatment capacity: <= 1000 gallons per day (Applies to systems described by the Logan County Health District as HSTS or SFOST.) · soil evaluation age: <= 5 years (Required for new, altered, or replacement sewage treatment system designs.)

  “The LCHD permits and inspects all new or altered Household sewage treatment systems (HSTS) and small flow on-site sewage treatment systems (SFOST) that treat no more than 1,000 gallons of sewage per day.”

Each answer was extracted from an official source and independently re-checked against that source by a second reviewer. That is an evidence check, not legal advice. Rules change; confirm with the authority before you buy or build.