Gloria Glens Park Village

The Village of Gloria Glens Park works out of the Town Hall at 7966 Lake Road, Chippewa Lake, mail to P.O. Box 457, phone 330-769-4617, email info@gloriaglens.org. Council meets the first Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Village Hall with the Zoning Report straight after, moving to the following Wednesday on a holiday. The county's 2026 Directory of Public Officials lists Mayor John P. Dean, Jr., Fiscal Officer Sheri Ward, five council members, Zoning Inspector Scott Gold and Law Director Allan Michelson. To get on the agenda you contact the fiscal officer and the village says your item is taken at the end of the meeting. Minutes are not posted online and come from the fiscal officer on request.

Source: Village of Gloria Glens own home, officials, council minutes and sunshine pages, with the Medina County Board of Commissioners 2026 Directory of Public Officials and the Auditor of State of Ohio Basic Audit for 2024-2023 · checked 2026-10-01

Fire and EMS for Gloria Glens Park come from Lafayette Township, not from the Westfield Fire and Rescue District that covers the surrounding township. The village's own Fire and Rescue page carries Lafayette's line, "Proudly serving Lafayette Township, Chippewa Lake and Gloria Glens," with the station at 6367 Technology Lane, Medina, non-emergency 330-722-4965. The county's 2026 Directory of Public Officials lists the village's fire chief as Brian Cavanaugh at a Lafayette Township email. The station sits about three miles north of the village hall in a straight line and falls inside Lafayette Township on the county boundary file. Recreational fires are allowed under three feet across and two feet high, clean seasoned wood only, constantly attended, twenty-five feet from a structure or fifteen in an approved container. Sirens are tested at noon on the first Saturday of the month.

Source: Village of Gloria Glens Fire and Rescue and Resources pages, which republish Lafayette Township Fire and Rescue, with the Medina County Board of Commissioners 2026 Directory of Public Officials and the Medina Post · checked 2026-10-01

Gloria Glens Park has no police department of its own. The county's 2026 Directory of Public Officials lists the Medina County Sheriff, emergency 911 and non-emergency 330-725-6631, and the village publishes the Sheriff's general information line 330-725-0028 and detective bureau 330-725-9116 as well. Golf carts are street legal and the Sheriff inspects them: the village publishes an inspection sheet to read but not to fill in, and says to call non-emergency dispatch at 330-725-6631, after which a deputy comes to the house. New golf cart owners now need a windshield wiper, manual or electric, and earlier owners are grandfathered in. Serving alcohol at a Village Hall rental requires the renter to hire a deputy at $30.00 an hour with a four hour minimum.

Source: Village of Gloria Glens Sheriff and Rentals and Reservations pages, with the Medina County Board of Commissioners 2026 Directory of Public Officials · checked 2026-10-01

Chippewa Lake is public water, but the shoreline inside Gloria Glens Park is not. The village says on its own Lake page that you may not launch a boat within the village unless you are a member of The Association, in capitals. Its FAQ lists lake access as being for Association members only, with parking passes required for all. The Gloria Glens Association is a separate non-profit, not the village; it maintains the shoreline, beach and picnic areas inside village limits, runs the boat ramp and issues parking passes, and every village resident is eligible to join. The beach is members, families and accompanied guests only, with sign-in at a beach attendant, no lifeguard, no diving off the concrete pier where the water is about a foot deep, and no alcohol, glass or picnics. Dues are due 15 May and late payment delays beach access, boat stickers and parking passes.

Source: Village of Gloria Glens Lake, FAQ and The Association pages, including the Gloria Glens Association's own Beach Rules and Regulations · checked 2026-10-01

Gloria Glens is one of three places the Medina County Park District names when it decides who may keep a boat at a private dock on Chippewa Lake. Section 11 of the district's Rules and Regulations limits Private Dock Watercraft Stickers, and overnight docking from an hour after sundown to an hour before sunrise, to residents and owners of inhabited homes in the Chippewa Lake Communities: the Village of Chippewa Lake, the Village of Gloria Glens, and homes on Euclid Avenue, Lakeside Drive, Lakeview Court and Shady Slope Drive in Lafayette Township within 600 feet of the lake. The village separately says four docks at Gloria Glens are privately owned and maintained, and names the dock masters to call about space: Southside Docks, Inc. for Dock 1, the Chippewa Yacht Club for Dock 2, and a third for Dock 3. The Gloria Glens Association manages the boat ramp and issues parking passes, and wants dues and paperwork in before opening weekend.

Source: Medina County Park District Rules and Regulations Section 11, Docking at Chippewa Lake, read with the Village of Gloria Glens own Lake and The Association pages · checked 2026-10-01

The Village of Gloria Glens Park operates none of its own utilities and lists the providers on its resource directory. Water and sewer are the Medina County Sanitary Engineers, 330-723-9592. Electric is Ohio Edison, gas is Columbia Gas of Ohio, trash is Rumpke and recycling goes to Medina Solid Waste at 8700 Lake Road. For internet and television the village lists AT&T, DirecTV, Dish Network, Frontier, Medina Fiber, Spectrum, Verizon and ViaSat, with its own note that none of them is affiliated with the village. The village does handle mosquito spraying, by an outside agency every Monday and Thursday evening in summer, and salting and plowing its own streets.

Source: Village of Gloria Glens Resources and Seasonal pages · checked 2026-10-01

Gloria Glens Park was built to house guests of the amusement park next door. The village's own history, credited to David W. and Diane DeMali Francis, says Oscar Townsend and the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railroad developed a vacation resort on the lake in the 1880s that became Chippewa Lake Park, and that the Village of Gloria Glens Park was created by the park to house patrons who wanted overnight accommodation for the weekends. Most of the surviving bungalow style homes have since been updated and converted to year round houses. The village's account says the Depression and the end of interurban rail crippled the park, Parker Beach bought it in 1937 and kept the ballroom full of bands through a golden age to 1969, and the park closed in 1978 after more than 100 years. The village says it has welcomed people to the lake shore for 100 years.

Source: Village of Gloria Glens FAQ page, history credited by the village to David W. and Diane DeMali Francis, and the village's own home page · checked 2026-10-01

Gloria Glens Park maintains its own recreation: tennis, pickleball and basketball courts, a jungle gym, swings, a teeter-totter, a merry-go-round, a volleyball court, the Playland Pavilion and the Town Hall. The pavilion is on Playland Parkway, is free for village residents to reserve, and has parking, concrete walkways, picnic tables, charcoal grills, a drinking fountain and a portable toilet, with no alcohol permitted in or around it. The Village Hall rents at $75.00 a day plus a refundable $75.00 deposit, has a commercial kitchen, two restrooms, tables and chairs, holds 50 to 60 people and is handicapped accessible. Alcohol is allowed at the hall, but village ordinance requires the renter to hire a Medina County Sheriff's deputy at $30.00 an hour with a four hour minimum. Reservations go through any council member and are not confirmed until payment, deposit and form are in.

Source: Village of Gloria Glens FAQ and Rentals and Reservations pages · checked 2026-10-01

Gloria Glens Park maintains its own roads, and Westfield Township's roads page lists it among the villages that do. The village says the streets are always salted or plowed during and after heavy snow accumulation and asks residents to pile driveway snow to either side rather than into the road. Council assigns roads to one of its members. The street grid is short and internal: Beau Bay Boulevard, Demi Dune Drive, Dawnshire Drive, Redfern Road, Lakefield Lane, Lorrie Lane and Playland Parkway all fall inside the village polygon on the county's 911 boundary file, and the whole village is about 72 acres. The through road is Lake Road, which runs north into the Village of Chippewa Lake and south into Westfield Township. The village says the lake sits southwest of Medina between U.S. Route 42 and State Route 3.

Source: Village of Gloria Glens Seasonal, Officials and Lake pages, with Westfield Township's own Roads page and the Medina County 911 jurisdiction boundary file · checked 2026-10-01

Gloria Glens Park runs its own zoning, and Westfield Township's own FAQ page says both villages in the township have their own governance and zoning commission. The village's zoning inspector is Scott Gold, 440-371-6177, who interprets and enforces the zoning and nuisance regulations, reviews construction applications, issues permits and handles violations, and zoning is reported at council straight after the monthly meeting. Construction permits and inspections come from the Medina County Building Department at 791 West Smith Road, Medina, 330-722-9220. The village publishes its own street, zoning and flood maps, and its documents page carries flood plain applications, the Ohio Floodplain Management Handbook, no-rise certification guidance, FEMA elevation certificate instructions and a Flood Hazard Area Development Permit. Call 811 at least 48 hours before digging.

Source: Village of Gloria Glens Overview, Documents and Information and Maps pages, with Westfield Township's own FAQ page · checked 2026-10-01

The village names an annual Fourth of July parade, the Association wiener roast, its role as an official voting precinct and a Santa Claus visit it credits to the Lafayette Fire Department. Most of the calendar belongs to the Gloria Glens Association, whose 2026 dates are the lakefront clean-up at 9 a.m. on 25 April, dues due 15 May, the annual meeting at 1 p.m. on 31 May at the pavilion, election of officers on 2 August, a final meeting on 16 August and the wiener roast at 5 p.m. on 5 September. The Association hires beach gate attendants from age fifteen up, with forms on the beach entrance bulletin board. The village also notes that the polling place has permanently moved from the Gloria Glens Village Hall to the Chippewa Lake Town Hall at 24 Circle Crest Drive.

Source: Village of Gloria Glens FAQ, The Association, Seasonal, Elections and home pages · checked 2026-10-01

There is no Gloria Glens mailing address. Mail is written Chippewa Lake, OH 44215, and the village's own box is P.O. Box 457 Chippewa Lake. The village is about 72 acres with no grocery, restaurant, school, library branch, doctor or post office counter inside it, and its own resource directory says where residents go instead. For food it names Contessa's on the Lake, The Village Inn and The Oaks Lakeside at Chippewa Lake, No. 1 Kitchen and El Patrons at Seville, and the Medina Square and Seville farm markets. For libraries it names the Medina County District Library and the Seville and Lodi public libraries. For health care it names Cleveland Clinic Medina Hospital, Cleveland Clinic Lodi Hospital, University Hospitals Medina Pediatrics, Summa Health, Seville Urgent Care, Medina QUICKmed and the Medina County Health Department. The village notes none of them is affiliated with it.

Source: Village of Gloria Glens Resources, The Association and home pages · checked 2026-10-01

Gloria Glens Park is a village. The Auditor of State of Ohio audited the Village of Gloria Glens Park for 2024 and 2023, released 25 November 2025, and names a mayor and council. The Medina County commissioners' 2026 Directory of Public Officials lists it under Village Officials and lists no Gloria Glens township among the county's seventeen. Cloverleaf's audited statements for 2023 name the Village of Gloria Glens in the district's territory. Whether the village is still inside Westfield Township is a separate question and it is open. The Medina Post reported that commissioners detached it from Westfield on 7 March over a Westfield fire levy, in an article with no year, and Ohio Revised Code 503.07 lets a village council petition for exactly that without the village ceasing to be a village. The county auditor's recent rate tables carry two Gloria Glens taxing districts, one with Westfield Township and one without, where older sheets carried only one. Westfield Township's own FAQ page still says both villages reside in the township. Anyone who needs the answer for a tax bill, a deed or a fire contract should get it from the Medina County Auditor or the commissioners' journal of resolutions.

Source: Auditor of State of Ohio, Village of Gloria Glens Park Basic Audit for 2024-2023; Medina County Board of Commissioners 2026 Directory of Public Officials; Cloverleaf Local School District Single Audit for the year ended 30 June 2023; Ohio Revised Code 503.07; Medina County Auditor rates of taxation; Medina Post, Glenn Wojciak; and Westfield Township's own FAQ page · checked 2026-10-01

The Medina County 911 boundary file carries a 1.756 acre polygon labelled Gloria Glens - Westfield Township just north of the main village polygon. Commissioners' minutes for 1 May 2018 record an Expedited Type 2 petition, filed 4 April 2018, for one parcel of 1.7616 acres to go from Westfield Township to the Village of Gloria Glens Park, with review set for 8 May 2018. The acreages match. Annexing land to an Ohio municipality does not by itself take it out of the township, which is why the county auditor's rate tables carry a Gloria Glens Village/Westfield Township taxing district alongside the plain Gloria Glens Village one. A point inside the sliver returns Gloria Glens - Westfield Township, a point just south returns Gloria Glens Park Village, and a point just north returns Lafayette Township.

Source: Medina County Board of Commissioners Board Meeting Minutes, 1 May 2018, read against the Medina County 911 jurisdiction boundary file and the Medina County Auditor's rates of taxation · checked 2026-10-01