By Tony Zartman, Former Paulding County Commissioner and Director of Programs &

Operations, Property Rights Ohio and the Ohio Conservative Energy Forum

When Senate Bill 52 was introduced, many warned that it would set a dangerous precedent.

By allowing local governments to veto private renewable energy projects, Ohio effectively

granted mob rule over private property. Now, just a few years later, those same tactics are

spreading — and our state is creeping closer to a society where individual rights are subject

to the loudest public opinion.

SB52 was sold as “local control,” but it’s really government control — and that’s the first

step down a road we’ve seen before in socialist systems, where private ownership becomes

a privilege granted by the collective rather than a right prot

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