Explanation
AN03-043
BACKGROUND: This ordinance is submitted to present to Council the transcript of proceedings and papers relating to Annexation AN03-043 a certain petition for annexation as described in the ordinance and transcript which is attached hereto. More than sixty days have elapsed since January 27, 2004, the date of receipt from the Board of County Commissioners of Franklin County.
These are submitted in accordance with the Ohio Revised Code.
FISCAL IMPACT: Provision of municipal services for a proposed annexation area has no fiscal impact. However, provision of the stated services does represent cost to the city. The annexation of land also has the potential to create revenue to the city.
Title
To accept the application (AN03-043) of Homewood Corporation for the annexation of certain territory containing 86.0 ± Acres in Madison Township.
Body
WHEREAS, a petition for the annexation of certain territory in Madison Township was duly filed by Homewood Corporation on December 9, 2003; and
WHEREAS, the said petition was duly considered by the Board of County Commissioners of Franklin County, Ohio, and the annexation of said hereinafter described territory to the city of Columbus was approved by said Commissioners by order dated January 13, 2004; and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Franklin County certified the transcript of the proceedings in connection with the said annexation with the map and petition required in connection therewith to the City Clerk who received the same on January 27, 2004; and
WHEREAS, sixty days from the date of said filing have now elapsed in accordance with the provisions of the Ohio Revised Code; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the city of Columbus to accept the annexation of the territory sought to be annexed by the aforesaid petition; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
Section 1. That the proposed annexation as applied for in the petition of Homewood Corporation being the majority of owner(s) of real estate in the territory sought to be annexed and filed with the Board of County Commissioners of Franklin County, Ohio December 9, 2003 in which said petition prayed for annexation to the city of Columbus, Ohio, of certain territory adjacent thereto as hereinafter described, and which said petition was approved for annexation to the city of Columbus by the Board of County Commissioners by order dated January 13, 2004, be and the same is hereby accepted and said territory is hereby annexed to the city of Columbus. Said territory is described as follows:
Situated in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, Township of Madison, located in Section 19, Township 15, Range 20, United States Military Lands and being all out of that tract conveyed to Homewood Corporation by deed of record in Instrument Number 200304300125745 (all references refer to the records of the Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio) and more particularly bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the intersection of the existing City of Columbus Corporation Line by Ordinance No. 751-75 of record in Miscellaneous Record 165, Page 58, and the northerly right-of-way line of Lehman Road with the easterly line of said Homewood Corporation tract extended;
thence with the perimeter of said Homewood Corporation tract, the following courses:
southerly, a distance of approximately 1781.4± feet to a corner thereof;
easterly, a distance of approximately 2235.3 feet to a point of curvature in the westerly right-of-way line of Bowen Road;
southerly, with said curve to the left, a distance of approximately 137.7 feet to a point;
westerly, a distance of approximately 285.7 feet to a point;
southerly, a distance of approximately 167.3 feet to a point;
southerly, a distance of approximately 376.5 feet to a corner thereof;
easterly, a distance of approximately 317.7 feet to a point in the westerly right-of-way line of said Bowen Road;
southerly, with said right-of-way line a distance of approximately 56.7 feet to a point;
westerly, a distance of approximately 192.9 feet to a corner thereof;
southerly, a distance of approximately 199.7 feet to a corner thereof;
westerly, a distance of approximately 1665.4 feet to a corner thereof;
northerly, a distance of approximately 224.5 feet to a corner thereof;
westerly, a distance of approximately 204.0 feet to a corner thereof;
southerly, a distance of approximately 321.6 feet to a corner thereof, being in the existing Canal Winchester Corporation Line by Ordinance No. 726 and of record in Miscellaneous Record 136, Page 285;
westerly, with said corporation line, a distance of approximately 709.5 feet to a corner thereof, being in the existing City of Columbus Corporation Line by Ordinance No. 751-75 and of record in Miscellaneous Record 165, Page 58;
northerly, with said existing corporation line, a distance of approximately 2734.2 feet to a point;
thence easterly continuing with said existing corporation line, a distance of approximately 799.4 feet to the Point of Beginning and containing approximately 86.0 acres of land, more or less.
Section 2. That the City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to make three copies of this ordinance to each of which shall be attached a copy of the map accompanying the petition for annexation, a copy of the transcript of proceedings of the Board of County Commissioners relating thereto, and a certificate as to the correctness thereof, the City Clerk shall then forthwith deliver one copy to the County Auditor, one copy to the Board of Elections thereof and do such other things as may be required by law.
Section 3. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.