Explanation
The City currently owns certain real property described as follows: a parcel known as 2682 Cleveland Avenue containing .302 acres and a building of approximately 2,070 square feet (Franklin County PID 010-059116), acquired by the City in 1950, leased since 1959 to the Linden Veterans Center Association, and vacated in February 2006; a parcel known as 1716 Parsons Avenue, containing .25 acres and a building of approximately 6,963 square feet (Franklin County PID 010-066800), acquired by the City in 1906, formerly used as a fire station until 2001, as storage until 2009; and a parcel known as 1551 Cleveland Avenue, containing .22 acres and a building of approximately 3,854 square feet (Franklin County PID 010-048327), acquired by the City in 1924, formerly used as a fire station until 2004; and a parcel known as 2500 Sullivant Avenue, containing .45 acres and a building of approximately 2,928 square feet, (Franklin County PID 010-051278), acquired by the City in 2000, formerly used as the Hilltop Health Center until September 2009.
All four sites are currently vacant and are not identified for any future use in City operations, and therefore, have been deemed to be surplus property. The Director of the Department of Finance and Management requests authority to determine the current marketability of these properties by soliciting proposals and purchase offers for the sale of the properties, by both public notice and real estate industry notice, and to entertain discussions and negotiations with interested parties with respect to sale of each property.
This ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to advertise the four (4) properties, solicit purchase proposals, respond to and negotiate with interested parties, waive the land review commission requirements of Chapter 328 and Chapter 329 of the Columbus City Codes (1959) Revised.
Any agreement for the sale of any of the four properties shall require approval by subsequent Council ordinance.
Fiscal Impact: N/A
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to enable the City to immediately begin the disposal process of these assets which are no longer required by the City and to eliminate their associated maintenance costs.
Title
To authorize the Director of Finance and Management to request, by both public notice and real estate industry notice, proposals and offers for the purchase of four City-owned properties known as 2682 Cleveland Avenue, 1716 Parsons Avenue, 1551 Cleveland Avenue, and 2500 Sullivant Avenue; to entertain discussion from and enter into negotiations with interested parties with respect to the sale of these properties; to waive the land review commission requirements of Columbus City Codes; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the real property owned by the City of Columbus the properties known as 2682 Cleveland Avenue, 1716 Parsons Avenue, 1551 Cleveland Avenue and 2500 Sullivant Avenue, have been deemed to be surplus properties with no forecasted use for city operations; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Finance and Management requests authority to determine the current marketability of these properties and to entertain discussion from and enter into negotiations with interested parties with respect to the sale of these four properties in order to assess the course of action that will be in the best interest of the City; and
WHEREAS, any agreement for the sale of any of the four properties shall require approval by Council ordinance; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City, in that it is necessary to immediately authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to determine the current marketability of these four properties, for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of the Department of Finance and Management be authorized to solicit purchase proposals and enter into negotiations regarding the potential sale of four parcels of City-owned real property known as 2682 Cleveland Avenue, 1716 Parsons Avenue, 1551 Cleveland Avenue and 2500 Sullivant.
Section 2. That this Council has determined that it is in the best interest of the City of Columbus to waive and does hereby waive the requirements of Columbus City Codes (1959) Revised, Chapter 328 (land review commission) and that portion of Chapter 329 that pertains to land review commission requirements.
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.