Explanation
The City of Columbus by Boyce Safford III, Director of the Development Department and Columbus Urban Growth Corporation by Odis Jones, Managing Director and CEO and Telhio Credit Union by Leslie Bumgarner, CEO/President have submitted the plat titled Tamarack Boulevard Dedication and Easements to the City Engineer's Office for review and approval. This plat has been reviewed and approved by the City Engineer. The following legislation allows the City to accept said plat for property located south of Morse Road and east of Northland Ridge Boulevard.
Emergency Justification:
Emergency action is requested to allow development of the proposed sites to proceed as currently scheduled.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Development Department to sign, as an owner, the plat titled Tamarack Boulevard Dedication and Easements; to accept said plat from the City of Columbus, Columbus Urban Growth Corporation, and Telhio Credit Union; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is the fee owner of approximately 22.544 acres of land, being part of those tracts of land conveyed to the City by deeds of record in Instrument Numbers 200304210115043, 20030130003048 and 200301300030439, Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio; and
WHEREAS, by virtue of a Memorandum of Lease, of record in Instrument Number 200312290404389, Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio, Columbus Urban Growth Corporation, an Ohio non-profit corporation, has a leasehold interest in these lands; and
WHEREAS, by virtue of a deed of record in Instrument Number 200501140009798, Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio, Telhio Credit Union, an Ohio non-profit corporation is the owner of 1 acre of land immediately west of the City owned 22.544 acres, and
WHEREAS, the plat titled Tamarack Boulevard Dedication and Easements has been submitted for review and approval by the City Engineer; and
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus by Boyce Safford, III, Director of the Development Department, Columbus Urban Growth Corporation by Odis Jones, Managing Director and CEO, and Telhio Credit Union by Leslie Bumgarner, CEO/President, owners of the platted lands, desire to dedicate to the public use, as such, all of the Avenue, Boulevard and Crossing shown on the plat and not heretofore so dedicated; and
WHEREAS, after examination, it has been found to be in the best interest of the City to accept said plat; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City of Columbus in that it is immediately necessary to authorize Boyce Safford, III, Director of the Development Department to sign the plat titled Tamarack Boulevard Dedication and Easements as an owner and to authorize the acceptance of this plat so development of the sites can proceed as currently scheduled thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare, now therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1: That on behalf of the City of Columbus, Boyce Safford, III, Director of the Development Department be and hereby is authorized to sign the plat titled Tamarack Boulevard Dedication and Easements as an owner.
SECTION 2: That the plat titled Tamarack Boulevard Dedication and Easements, on file in the office of the City Engineer, Transportation Division, be and the same is hereby accepted.
SECTION 3: 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 its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.