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Paulding County Building Requirements

The following steps need to be taken prior to building in Paulding County:

Paulding County Flood Plain Regulations

Permission must be obtained from the Paulding County Engineer’s Office for any extensive movement or rearrangement of ground surface contours (ponds, embankments, causeways, boat ramps, etc.) which occur upon or within a 100-year flood plain as depicted on Flood Insurance Rate Maps.

Any structures including, but not limited to, houses, garages, barns, etc., which are built in or upon a flood plain, must meet specific standards in order to be permitted by the Engineer’s office. These standards vary according to location.

Banks and/or lending institutions also check the flood plain maps to determine property locations before lending money on properties located in the flood plain. Once all standards are approved through the Engineer’s Office, the bank and/or lending institution may or may not approve loans or mortgages for structures located within the flood plain.

There appears to be a popular tendency toward filling in low-lying areas. These low-lying areas serve as temporary water retention resources and filling them in increases the likelihood that the displaced water will end up in less desirable location.

Increased development means increased water run-off. This increased water run-off, along with continuing improvements to farmland surface and subsurface water drainage makes the preservation of these natural temporary water storage areas important. It would be unfortunate if we had to replace the low-lying water retention areas which nature has provided, with costly man-made reserve areas.

The intent of these regulations is to prevent the flooding of existing structures and to monitor the building of new structures which would be vulnerable to flooding.

Questions on these regulations and/or reports of possible violations should be forwarded to:

Tony Windsor (FEMA Flood Plain Administrator)
Paulding County Engineer’s Office
115 North Williams Street RM-B2
Paulding, OH 45879
Phone (419) 399-5049
Fax (419) 399-8246

Flood Plain Maps

Paulding County GIS website

Click on Map (on the right side of the page), Click on Layers, Check Dynamic Layers, Check FEMA Flood, Then check Base Flood Elevation and Flood Hazard Areas.  You then can click on the desired township and zoom in to see the flood hazard areas in blue.

Paulding County Application for Approval of Minor Subdivision

If you are going to create a parcel that is less than 5 acres this application needs to be filled out and taken to the Paulding County Engineer’s Tax Map Office located in the basement of the Paulding County Courthouse.

Minor Subdivision Form
Application Minor Subdivision  Form Pg. 2

**Page 2 MUST accompany first page**
**Any questions pertaining to Page 2, please contact Health Dept. 419-399-3921**

Planning on Building in Paulding County

Building within a Flood Hazard

Flood Hazard Application Pg 1

Flood Hazard Application Pg 2

Address Plates for Mailboxes

Smartsign.com

FEMA-National Flood Insurance Program Elevation Certificate and Instructions (2019)

Paulding County Surveyors

Other Federal State and County Agencies

Land Splits

Here are a few of the more common things required for land splits in Paulding County for your information:

1. All splits must be at least 1.5 acres. Split less than 1.5 acres must be approved by the Paulding County Commission. Unless split is being combined
   with an existing parcel of land to enlarge said existing parcel of land. Or a hardship exists with the split that will not allow a 1.5 acres to be split. In which case proof of hardship must be shown to and approved by the Planning Commission.
2. Split must adhere to each Township road frontage requirements. The following is each townships minimum frontage in feet:
   • Auglaize Township:  Not Zoned
   • Benton Township: 100 feet
   • Blue Creek Township: 210 feet
   • Brown Township: Not Zoned
   • Carryall Township: No minimum frontage
   • Crane Township: 300 Feet
   • Emerald Township: 200 feet
   • Harrison Township: 200 feet
   • Jackson Township: Not Zoned
   • Latty Township: 210 feet
   • Paulding Township: 200 feet
   • Washington Township: 200 feet
3. All splits must have road frontage (per township requirements) unless new split is accompanied by an ingress/egress easement which then must be approved by the County Engineer or as stated in #1, split is being combined with an existing parcel of land as one parcel of land.
4. Splits of 5.0 acres or less must have a Minor Subdivision Application completely filled out and accompany legal deed prior to approval of said deed.
   Application can either be attained at the Engineer’s Office in the basement of the Court House, or on the Engineer’s website
5. Surveys by a licensed surveyor of the State of Ohio must be done for a split to be accepted.
6. Parcel splits with village limits myst adhere to Village regulations. County Engineers Office only regulates township splits.
7. Please contact Engineer’s Office prior to having land surveyed to check for possible flood zone infringement.
8. The ONLY way to combine two or more adjoining parcels of land is to have said parcels legally described as one parcel by legal description done by licensed surveyor. May also require a survey plat to be done.
9. A list of surveyors who do work in Paulding County can be attained either in the County Engineers Office in the Court House or on the County Engineers website.
10. The price of a survey can vary among alot of things. The following are just a few of the things that can affect the price of a survey:
    • How far the surveyor has to travel to the land to be surveyed
    • How much information is available from prior surveys in the area of proposed survey
    • How much existing survey monumentation is available in the area of proposed survey
    • The amount of foliage on the trees (easier for a surveyor to see thru a tree with no leaves than a tree full of leaves)
    • Are there crops in the fields (takes more time for a surveyor to walk thru a field full of crops than a field with no crops.)
    • Snow on the ground or frozen ground (surveyor has to dig thru snow for survey monumentation or thru frozen ground for survey monumenation)
    • Is the land to be surveyed hilly or flat (easier for a surveyor to see over flat land. Surveyor can not see thru a hill which means more setups
      which means more time)
    • Has the surveyor already done work in the area (if so, the surveyor may know where some of the existing monumenation is and won’t have
      take as much time looking for it)
    • There are more variables depending on the surveyor used.