LORDSTOWN, Ohio - The core legal battle between a company seeking to construct a data center in Lordstown and village officials centers on the developer's claim that the Village is illegally blocking its proposed project. The Village's counterargument is that the application is simply incomplete.

The developers, Bristolville 25 Developer LLC and BHGH Properties, LLC, have filed in the Ohio Supreme Court what’s known as a Verified Petition for Peremptory Writ of Mandamus against the Village of Lordstown, its Planning and Zoning Administrator Kellie D. Bordner, and Village Solicitor Matthew Ries.

The Village, through its Solicitor Matthew Ries, asserts that the Planning and Zoning Office is "not refusing to proceed with site plan review” on Bristolville's submission. Instead, the Village

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