Your Voice Matters
Restore Your Right to Vote on Referendum Local Zoning Changes. Guzzo will fight to ensure local residents, not special interests, have the final say on zoning changes in their communities.
Faith, Family, Freedom, and Citizens' Right
to Referendum Local Zoning Changes
Unlike traditional policy decisions at the Federal and State level, local zoning changes directly affect daily life, property values, schools, traffic, safety, and quality of life.
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Image a beautiful golf course (like Wedgewood, Kinsale, or Berlin Country Club) surrounded by beautiful homes rezoned to build a large retail development or a megaproject over the objections of the neighboring citizens – Is government for the people when they ignore citizens and deny citizens the ability to put the zoning change on the ballot?
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Or image an inappropriate development next to a school or park.
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Image a proposed megaproject that:
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Replace designated greenspace.
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Overburdens infrastructure.
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Drains local electricity capacity.
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Radically changes the neighborhood character.
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"Why it Matters”
Is Government by the people when the citizens no longer have the right to referendum and vote on megaprojects?
How Did Citizens’ Lose
Local Referendum Rights?
In Ohio’s 2025 State Budget, a provision was inserted that:
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Eliminated citizens’ right to referendum “megaprojects.”
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Increased the signature requirements for petitions to 35% of the number of voters that voted in the last gubernatorial election on all other zoning changes.
Which is impossible, for example, a community with 10,000 eligible voters, the required number of signatures would have been 800 or 8% (prior to 2023) and now the required number of signatures is 3,500 or 35% – making it impossible to put it on the ballot for local citizens to vote on.
Citizens are now powerless to stop inappropriate zoning changes that affect their daily lives, property values, safety, and quality of living. That is why Guzzo is running because she believes government should serve the people, not silence them.
Guzzo's Commitment
when elected as your State Representative
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Fight to restore and strengthen Citizens’ referendum rights on local zoning changes
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Fight to protect faith based education
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Fight for parental Rights
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Fight to protect life
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Fight for morality, transparency, and unity
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Listen and seek solutions that makes Ohio a great place to live and work for all Citizens and keep taxes low.