Delaware to weigh impact fee agreement for Olentangy Hyatts High School
Delaware City Council is scheduled to consider a conditional payment and security agreement for the $148 million campus along Sawmill Parkway.
Delaware City Council is scheduled to hold emergency consideration on a conditional impact fee payment and security agreement with the Olentangy Local School District Board of Education for the construction of Olentangy Hyatts High School.
The regular meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Oct. 26, 2026, in City Hall Council Chambers. For public participation, the city accepts written comments submitted to the council clerk by 10 a.m. the date of the meeting to be presented to members and entered into the record. During open meetings held in Council Chambers, sign-in forms to speak are available at the door.
District leaders, board members and local officials held a groundbreaking ceremony on June 1 on about 140 acres along the north side of Bunty Station Road and west of Sawmill Parkway. Delaware City Council unanimously approved the site's annexation from Delaware Township during a June 8 meeting, granting it as an emergency measure so the district could proceed with construction. The municipal agreement follows a January pre-annexation accord ensuring the city would provide utilities and police and fire protection to the campus.
The high school project is budgeted to cost $148 million. District plans call for a roughly 300,000-square-foot facility with five practice fields and two baseball and softball fields. Indoor amenities are slated to feature an 800-seat auditorium, main and auxiliary gyms, a weight room, a media center, commons and a cafe. Construction on Hyatts High School began over the summer, and the building will open in fall 2028.
The Olentangy Local school board approved the name at an Oct. 8 meeting, selecting Olentangy Hyatts High School as the official designation for the campus. The district received 729 submissions from the community survey with suggested names for the building. Olentangy Hyatts High School was named for one of the original schoolhouses, commemorating Hyatts School, which opened in 1914 and closed in 1973.
In 2025, Olentangy voters approved a $235 million bond levy by a 56% margin, authorizing the district to build the fifth high school and its 18th elementary school. The district broke ground in March on that 18th elementary building, Deer Haven Elementary School, which is scheduled to open in August 2027.
Olentangy's official enrollment reached 24,568 PK-12 students for the 2026–2027 academic year, representing an increase of 159 students over September 2025. District facilities planners project that Olentangy will add more than 2,000 students over the next ten years based on building permits, housing yields and grade advancement data.
District middle schools are already operating at 104% capacity with enrollment growing, while elementary schools are projected to reach 100% capacity by the 2034–2035 school year even with Deer Haven open. Opening Olentangy Hyatts High School is projected to bring high school capacity utilization under 97% across the district's five high schools over the next decade.
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City Council · 2026-10-22 · agenda
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Delaware City Council is scheduled to hold emergency consideration on a conditional impact fee payment and security agreement with the Olentangy Local School District Board of Education for the construction of Olentangy Hyatts High School.
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Resolution No. 26-76, a resolution authorizing the Acting City Manager to execute a conditional impact fee payment and security agreement with the Olentangy Local School District Board of Education relating to the construction of Olentangy Hyatts High School and declaring an emergency
The regular meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Oct. 26, 2026, in City Hall Council Chambers.
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CITY OF DELAWARE CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING
The regular meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Oct. 26, 2026, in City Hall Council Chambers.
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7:00 PM OCTOBER 26, 2026
The regular meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Oct. 26, 2026, in City Hall Council Chambers.
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Open meetings are held in City Hall Council Chambers. Sign in forms to speak are available at the door.
For public participation, the city accepts written comments submitted to the council clerk by 10 a.m. the date of the meeting to be presented to members and entered into the record.
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Emails, letters, and petitions received to the Council Clerk by 10 a.m. the date of the meeting will be presented to members and submitted into the record.
During open meetings held in Council Chambers, sign-in forms to speak are available at the door.
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Open meetings are held in City Hall Council Chambers. Sign in forms to speak are available at the door.
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District leaders, board members and local officials held a groundbreaking ceremony on June 1 on about 140 acres along the north side of Bunty Station Road and west of Sawmill Parkway.
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Olentangy, the state's fourth-largest school district, already held a groundbreaking ceremony on June 1 as district leaders, board of education members, Delaware County and city leaders gathered at the site.
District leaders, board members and local officials held a groundbreaking ceremony on June 1 on about 140 acres along the north side of Bunty Station Road and west of Sawmill Parkway.
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The site, totaling about 140 acres, sits along the north side of Bunty Station Road and west of Sawmill Parkway.
Delaware City Council unanimously approved the site's annexation from Delaware Township during a June 8 meeting, granting it as an emergency measure so the district could proceed with construction.
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Delaware City Council unanimously approved the site's annexation from Delaware Township during a June 8 meeting, according to a meeting video on the city's website.
Delaware City Council unanimously approved the site's annexation from Delaware Township during a June 8 meeting, granting it as an emergency measure so the district could proceed with construction.
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The annexation was approved as an emergency measure at the request of the school district, so they can move forward with construction.
The municipal agreement follows a January pre-annexation accord ensuring the city would provide utilities and police and fire protection to the campus.
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Back in January, City Council approved a pre-annexation agreement that established the city would provide services – in particular, utilities and police and fire protection – once the site was annexed into the city.
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The high school project is budgeted to cost $148 million.
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The project is expected to cost $148 million.
District plans call for a roughly 300,000-square-foot facility with five practice fields and two baseball and softball fields.
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Plans call for a roughly 300,000-square-foot high school with multiple athletic facilities, including five practice fields and two baseball and softball fields.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/heres-olentangy-local-schools-just-090653584.html
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Indoor amenities are slated to feature an 800-seat auditorium, main and auxiliary gyms, a weight room, a media center, commons and a cafe.
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The 300,000-square-foot high school will feature outdoor athletics facilities, and indoor amenities including an 800-seat auditorium, main and auxiliary gyms, weight room, media center, commons and a café.
Construction on Hyatts High School began over the summer, and the building will open in fall 2028.
The Olentangy Local school board approved the name at an Oct. 8 meeting, selecting Olentangy Hyatts High School as the official designation for the campus.
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After reviewing input from the community, staff and students, along with relevant historical research, the Olentangy Local school board approved the name at an Oct. 8 meeting.
Olentangy Hyatts High School was named for one of the original schoolhouses, commemorating Hyatts School, which opened in 1914 and closed in 1973.
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Hyatts School was the second such school when it opened in 1914. Hyatts School closed in 1973, along with the Powell and Berlin schools, according to the Olentangy Local Schools website.
In 2025, Olentangy voters approved a $235 million bond levy by a 56% margin, authorizing the district to build the fifth high school and its 18th elementary school.
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In 2025, Olentangy voters approved a $235 million bond levy, with 56% of voters in favor of the proposal.
In 2025, Olentangy voters approved a $235 million bond levy by a 56% margin, authorizing the district to build the fifth high school and its 18th elementary school.
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The district will use the bond money to build the fifth high school, its 18th elementary school and improve some of its current facilities or build new ones.
The district broke ground in March on that 18th elementary building, Deer Haven Elementary School, which is scheduled to open in August 2027.
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The district broke ground in March on its 18th elementary school, which was later named Deer Haven Elementary School. It is expected to open in August 2027.
https://www.olentangy.k12.oh.us/default-board-post/~board/post-home/post/board-of-education-update
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The Olentangy Local school board approved the name at an Oct. 8 meeting, selecting Olentangy Hyatts High School as the official designation for the campus.
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The Board of Education selected Olentangy Hyatts High School as the name for High School 5 – named for one of the original schoolhouses.
The district received 729 submissions from the community survey with suggested names for the building.
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The district received 729 submissions from the community survey with a suggested name for Olentangy’s fifth high school.
Olentangy Hyatts High School was named for one of the original schoolhouses, commemorating Hyatts School, which opened in 1914 and closed in 1973.
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The Board of Education selected Olentangy Hyatts High School as the name for High School 5 – named for one of the original schoolhouses.
Olentangy's official enrollment reached 24,568 PK-12 students for the 2026–2027 academic year, representing an increase of 159 students over September 2025.
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Olentangy Schools’ 2026-27 enrollment is 24,568 PK-12 students - an increase of 159 students over the September 2025 enrollment.
District facilities planners project that Olentangy will add more than 2,000 students over the next ten years based on building permits, housing yields and grade advancement data.
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The Facilities Committee presented enrollment projections, sharing that Olentangy is projected to grow by more than 2,000 students over the next ten years, based on housing data, building permits, housing yields and grade advancement data.
District middle schools are already operating at 104% capacity with enrollment growing, while elementary schools are projected to reach 100% capacity by the 2034–2035 school year even with Deer Haven open.
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Enrollment growth will continue to place pressure on our school building capacity: elementary schools are projected to reach 100% utilization by 2034-35 factoring in the addition of Deer Haven Elementary, middle schools are already at 104% capacity and growing, and the addition of Olentangy Hyatts High School will bring utilization just under 97% across the five high schools over the next decade.
Opening Olentangy Hyatts High School is projected to bring high school capacity utilization under 97% across the district's five high schools over the next decade.
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Enrollment growth will continue to place pressure on our school building capacity: elementary schools are projected to reach 100% utilization by 2034-35 factoring in the addition of Deer Haven Elementary, middle schools are already at 104% capacity and growing, and the addition of Olentangy Hyatts High School will bring utilization just under 97% across the five high schools over the next decade.