# Smith v. Granville Township Board of Trustees

> Ohio Supreme Court · May 13, 1998 · 81 Ohio St. 3d 608

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6776750

## Case

- **Full name:** Smith v. Granville Township Board of Trustees
- **Court:** Ohio Supreme Court
- **Decided:** May 13, 1998
- **Citations:** 81 Ohio St. 3d 608; 693 N.E.2d 219
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Pfeifer
- **Judges:** Cook, Douglas, Moyer, Only, Pfeifer, Resnick, Stratton, Sweeney
- **Cited by:** 147 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- discussing the “long-standing principle that annexation is to be encouraged”

## Opinion text

Pfeifer, J.,
concurring. I recognize that putting high-density housing into a fairly small school district presents potentially enormous challenges regarding the sufficiency of facilities to accommodate the rapid growth. The General Assembly has also been mindful of the problems annexation may pose to particular school districts, and R.C. 3311.06 is an avenue of relief. R.C. 3311.06 provides a mechanism for the transfer of the annexed territory into the school district of the city to which the territory has been annexed.
*618 The effects of annexation on school districts have been taken into account and have been dealt with responsibly by the General Assembly. Therefore, I decline to introduce a new factor into the evaluation of annexation petitions.

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