Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
The City of Columbus, Department of Public Service, received a request from Camden Land Holdings, LLC asking that the City transfer all of the 8 foot alley from the original easterly Right-of-Way line of St. Clair Avenue to the extension of the westerly line of the first 15 foot alley east of said St. Clair Avenue, originally dedicated and subsequently vacated in Wooley’s Addition as numbered and delineated in Plat Book 4 page 173, Franklin County Recorder’s Office, said alley being described in a boundary survey of 1,000 square foot (0.023 acre +/-).
The Department processed the request and submitted legislation to Council that was passed by ordinance 3193-2024. A Quitclaim deed was then created by the City Attorney’s Office for recording at the Franklin County Recorders Office. The County determined that the Quitclaim deed was not sufficient to clear title into the adjacent owner, Camden Land Holdings, LLC, so the City withdrew the submission. To correct and clear title the Franklin County Recorder’s Office is requiring that the strip of right-of-way described below to be vacated.
The following ordinance allows the City to vacate the following rights-of-way: an 8 foot alley in Wooley’s Addition, being a 1,000 square foot (0.023 acre +/-) portion of the first alley north of Camden Avenue and east of St. Clair Avenue. Vacating this area of the right-of-way will allow the applicant to clear title and incorporate it into the surrounding parcel, to then be combined into one parcel.
Per current practice, comments were solicited from interested parties, including City agencies, private utilities and the applicable area commission, before it was determined that, subject to the retention of a general utility easement for those utilities currently located within the right-of-way, the City will not be adversely affected by vacating this portion of right-of-way.
The Department of Public Service has agreed to vacate this strip of right-of-way as described and shown within the attached legal description and extinguish its need for public right-of-way.
2. FISCAL IMPACT
No funding is required by this legislation.
3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION
Emergency action is requested by the Department of Public Service to allow this redevelopment project to proceed without unnecessary delay, which will preserve the public peace, health, property, safety and welfare.
Title
To vacate an unnamed 8 foot alley in Wooley’s Addition north of Camden Avenue and east of St. Clair Avenue; and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Department of Public Service, received a request from Camden Land Holdings, LLC asking that the City transfer all of the 8 foot alley from the original easterly Right-of-Way line of St. Clair Avenue to the extension of the westerly line of the first 15 ft alley east of said St. Clair Avenue, originally dedicated and subsequently vacated in Wooley’s Addition as numbered and delineated in Plat Book 4 page 173, Franklin County Recorder’s Office, said alley being described in a boundary survey of 1,000 square foot (0.023 acre +/-); and
WHEREAS, the following rights-of-way will be vacated: an 8 foot alley in Wooley’s Addition, being a 1,000 square foot (0.023 acre +/-) portion of the first alley north of Camden Avenue and east of St. Clair Avenue; and
WHEREAS, vacating this area of the right-of-way will allow the applicant to incorporate it into the surrounding parcel, to then be combined into one parcel; and
WHEREAS, per current practice, comments were solicited from interested parties, including City agencies, private utilities and the applicable area commission, before it was determined that, subject to the retention of a general utility easement for those utilities currently located within the right-of-way, the City will not be adversely affected by vacating this portion of right-of-way; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Service in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to vacate the referenced right-of-way to allow this redevelopment project to proceed without unnecessary delay, all for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, property, safety and welfare; and now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That by Council passing this ordinance it does hereby vacate all of the 8 foot alley from the original easterly ROW line of St. Clair Avenue to the extension of the westerly line of the first 15 ft alley east of said St. Clair Avenue, originally dedicated and subsequently vacated in Ord. No. 438-38, and north of Camden Avenue all delineated in Wooley’s Addition, recorded in Plat Book 4 page 173, Franklin County Recorder’s Office, said alley being described in a boundary survey of the 1,000 square foot (0.023 acre +/-) portion of right-of-way described and depicted in Exhibit A, which is attached hereto and made a part hereof; to-wit:
0.023 ACRE PARCEL
BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION
Situated in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, City of Columbus, Township 1 North, Range 17 West, Quarter Township 4, United States Military Lands, and being a portion of an 8 foot wide unnamed Alley, as said Alley is delineated on a Record Plat thereof, on S.J. Woolley’s Addition, Plat Book 4, Page 173, and also being a 0.023 acre parcel of land out of a 2.906 acre remainder parcel from an original 18.385 acre parcel conveyed to CRA-CO Investments, LLC, in Deed of Record, in Instrument Number 200101220013359, and as described as the 0.023 acre (exception) Alley parcel in the description of the 1.441 acre (remainder) tract of land as conveyed to BILDSTEN LAND HOLDINGS, LLC in the General Warrenty Deed in Instrument Number 202301190006251, with all record references cited herein being of the Franklin County Recorder’s Office, Columbus, Ohio, and being more particularly bounded and described as follows:
Beginning for reference at a three-quarters (3/4) inch iron pin found with no cap at the intersection of the northerly right-of-way line to Camden Avenue (50’ R/W-P.B. 4, PG. 173) with the easterly right-of-way line (extended) of St. Clair Avenue (50’ R/W-P.B. 4, PG. 173), and being on the westerly line of Lot Number 4 of said S.J. Woolley’s Addition at an angle point in the southerly line of said 1.441 acre tract, and also referenced by a three-quarters (3/4) inch iron pin found with no cap at the southwesterly corner of said Lot Number 4 bearing S 03° 57’ 47” W at a distance of 23.49 feet;
Thence N 03°40’47” E, crossing into said 18.385 acre parcel and said 1.441 tract along the original easterly right-of-way line of St. Clair Avenue (said avenue having been vacated by Columbus City Council, Ordinance 30263) and said westerly line of Lot Number 4, and along the westerly lines of Lot Numbers 3, 2, and 1 of said S. J. Woolley’s Addition, a distance of 94.02 feet to a three-quarters (3/4) inch iron pin with yellow plastic cap stamped “PRIME CM & S” found at the northwesterly corner of said Lot Number 1 and the southwesterly corner of said 8 foot wide unnamed alley, and the true point of beginning of the parcel described herein;
Thence N 03° 40’ 47” E, continuing across said 18.385 acre parcel along said original easterly right-of-way line of St. Clair Avenue, the westerly right-of-way line of said 8 foot wide unnamed Alley and an interior line of said 1.441 acre tract, a distance of 8.00 feet to a three-quarters (3/4) inch iron pin with yellow plastic cap stamped “PRIME CM & S” found at the northwesterly corner of said 8 foot wide unnamed alley, and on the northerly line of said S. J. Woolley’s Addition;
Thence S 86° 35’ 50” E, leaving said original easterly right-of-way line of St. Clair Avenue and said westerly right-of-way line of the 8 foot wide unnamed Alley, and continuing across said 18.385 acre parcel along the northerly right-of-way line of said 8 foot wide unnamed Alley, said northerly line of S. J. Woolley’s Addition and an interior line of said 1.441 acre tract, a distance of 125.00 feet to a three-quarters (3/4) inch iron pin with yellow plastic cap stamped “PRIME CM & S” found at the intersection with the westerly right-of-way line (extended) of a 15 foot wide unnamed Alley (said alley having been vacated by Columbus City Council, Ordinance 438-48);
Thence S 03° 40’ 47” W, leaving said northerly right-of-way line of the 8 foot wide unnamed alley and said northerly line of S. J. Woolley’s Addition, and continuing across said 18.385 acre parcel and crossing said 8 foot wide unnamed Alley along said westerly right- of- way line (extended) of the 15 foot unnamed Alley and an interior line of said 1.441 acre tract, a distance of 8.00
feet to a three-quarters (3/4) inch iron pin with yellow plastic cap stamped “PRIME CM & S” found at the northeasterly corner of said Lot Number 1;
Thence N 86° 35’ 50” W, leaving said westerly right-of-way line (extended) of the 15 foot wide unnamed Alley, and continuing across said 18.385 acre parcel along the southerly right-of-way line of said 8 foot wide unnamed Alley, the northerly line of said Lot Number 1 and an interior line of said 1.441 acre tract, a distance of 125.00 feet to the true point of beginning of the parcel herein described, containing 0.023 acres of land, more or less, and being subject to all easements, restrictions, covenants and rights-of-way of record.
The bearings, as described herein, are based upon the bearing of the northerly right-of-way line of Camden Avenue, described as N 86° 35’ 50” W, in a General Warranty deed conveyed to CRA-CO Investments, LLC, in Instrument Number 200101220013359, Franklin County Recorder’s Office, Columbus, Ohio.
The “iron pins set”, as described herein, are thirty (30) inches in length, three-quarters (3/4) inch inside diameter, hollow iron pipes with yellow plastic caps stamped “PRIME CM & S”. The “iron pins found” are as noted herein.
This description was prepared in March of 2024 by PRIME CM & S, INC., from record information and an on-site survey of the premises conducted between March 2017 and March 2024.
SECTION 2. That the following rights-of-way or portions of rights-of-way will be vacated: an 8 foot alley in Wooley’s Addition, being a 1,000 square foot (0.023 acre +/-) portion of the first alley north of Camden Avenue and east of St. Clair Avenue, as shown on the attached exhibit.
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 passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.