CLEVELAND, Ohio – Library and park districts are so popular that when a dozen of them took tax issues to the ballot across Ohio this spring, all 12 passed — most by wide margins. A year ago, voters approved 38 of 47 library and park taxes statewide.

But those votes — and the money that goes with them to pave trails, buy books and provide an array of other widely popular services — would be wiped out if backers of a petition drive to abolish property taxes in Ohio have their way.

The results could be crippling.

Imagine if, almost overnight, two-thirds of the money coming into your household evaporated and you had to find a way to pay your bills with what remains.

That’s the possibility places like the Cleveland Metroparks and many libraries may have to grapple with.

Until now, a petiti

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