Explanation
Background: This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department to grant a permanent no-build easement and temporary construction easement at Italian Village Park to Parkside on Pearl, LLC. This ordinance also authorizes the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into a Maintenance Agreement with the Italian Village Society and authorizes the City Auditor, on behalf of the Recreation and Parks Department, to create a new subfund within the City’s Special Purpose Fund to account for funds received exclusively for enhancements to Italian Village Park.
The No-Build Easement is a perpetual easement to be utilized by Parkside on Pearl, LLC for the exclusive purpose of maintaining a twenty (20) foot no-build buffer zone required for fire separation between the new Parkside on Pearl building and other structures. The Parkside on Pearl Project is proposed for development by Parkside on Pearl, LLC at 39 East Hubbard Avenue, currently a surface lot on private property immediately west of Italian Village Park. The project is to be built up to the lot line bordering Italian Village Park. Ohio Building Code 705.5, for Fire-Resistance Ratings, requires a fire protection buffer between buildings. The project, as currently proposed, cannot meet Code unless the City of Columbus, as the adjacent property owner, grants a No-Build Easement for a .074 acre buffer area that is twenty feet in width, running the length of the western park border. This area totals 3,223 square feet of park space. The easement restricts both the City, as grantor, and Parkside on Pearl LLC from building any structures regulated by Ohio Building Code within the easement. The easement also includes canopy encroachment rights for an aerial roof projection of no greater than four (4) feet into the Easement Area, to be approximately one hundred sixty-eight (168) feet long and located approximately eighty-seven and a half (87.5) feet above the surface of the Easement Ar...
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