City boundaries and taxes

[joyeaux]

Originally Posted by Sarah Perry

It's really the ZIP code that's important.

It IS confusing. Hope this helped with part of your question.

Sarah,
I lived in the City of Wyoming, Ohio (loved it, too).
But the area of the city that my house was in had been annexed on in the late '80s. We were in ZIP 45231; 95% of Wyoming is in 45215. In fact, one year in the Wyoming 4th of July parade, our neighborhood carried huge numeral ballooons: 4-5-2-3-1 because a teacher at the renowned Wyoming Middle School chided a kid for using what IS the correct ZIP code for the neighborhood.

So ZIPs can be deceiving.

45231 is mostly Springfield Township -- not to be confused with Springdale, the suburb.

And so OP, we all learn to proudly say that WE LIVE IN CINCINNATI!

[kjbrill]

Yes, postal zones rarely change. The same with school districts. I have a friend who lives at what until recently was a quite rural Liberty Township address. He is in the Lakota school district but has a Monroe mailing address. This does make things confusing.

Recently a group of residents in the Little Miami School district petitioned to be moved to the Kings Mills District, saying their subdivision was much more typical of adjacent subdivision in the Kings district. Little Miami complained because they did not want to lose the tax revenue. The last I heard of it the state was going to rule on whether they could leave the Little Miami District. Even if the state said they could leave the Little Miami District, then the Kings Mills District could vote on whether to accept them or not. This was a school district vote, not a neighborhood vote. Haven't seen an update on it recently, but my bet would be on Kings Mills turning them down.