Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance corrects an incorrect bearing in the legal description contained in Ordinance 1793-03 1759-2003, passed July 28, 2003, designating the Continent as a Community Entertainment District. All other text of the original ordinance remains unchanged.The original ordinance was submitted to Council for the purpose of approving the application of Continent Commercial 1, LLC and Continent French Quarter, LLC in order to designate the Continent as a Community Entertainment District.
FISCAL IMPACT:
No funding is required for this legislation.
Title
To amend Ordinance 1793-03 1759-2003, passed July 28, 2003, in order to correct the legal description contained in the original ordinance designating the Continent as a Community Entertainment District and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, Ordinance 1793-03 1759-2003, passed on July 28, 2003, designated the Continent as a Community Entertainment District as allowed under Section 4301.80 of the Ohio Revised Code; and
WHEREAS, the legal description contained in that ordinance contained an incorrect bearing resulting in a legal description that did not close; and
WHEREAS, Continent Commercial 1, LLC and Continent French Quarter, LLC, had otherwise properly filed an application to designate the Continent as a Community Entertainment District; and
WHEREAS, a public hearing was held on June 19, 2003, at which there was no opposition to the original application; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance corrects the incorrect bearing by amending the original legal description contained in Ordinance 1793-03 1759-2003, while leaving the balance of the original ordinance unchanged; now, therefore, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Deparment of Development in that it is immediately necessary to pass this ordinance as an emergency measure because of the need to allow development to proceed as soon as possible for the preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; now therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.