Granville runs its own zoning desk, and the historic village center carries a design review layer most Central Ohio towns do not have. We know which addresses fall inside the review district before we ever draw a plan, not after a rejection.
The Architectural Review Overlay District is the thing most out-of-town contractors miss here. It is not just staff sign-off, a deck project inside the district goes in front of the Planning Commission with a real site plan, and that adds a review cycle most Granville decks outside the district never see. We tell you honestly whether your address is inside it before we finalize a design. Sources: Village of Granville Planning and Development, Granville Codified Ordinances, Architectural Review Overlay (Ch. 1161), Licking County Building Code Department.
Granville is old enough to have a genuine historic core with real design review, and new enough on the edges to have golf-course subdivisions with acreage lots. A deck project looks very different depending on which side of that line your address falls.