Explanation
Background:
The following is a resolution to declare the necessity and intent to appropriate fee simple title in and to real estate, located at the northwest corner of Cherry Street and Wall Street, more fully described within the body of this legislation, in connection with the Front Street Parking Garage project.
Fiscal Impact:
N/A
Emergency Justification:
Emergency action is requested to allow the acquisition of the parcels necessary for this project to proceed in order to provide the public with downtown off street parking without delay.
Title
To declare the necessity and intent to appropriate fee simple title in and to real estate, located at the northwest corner of Cherry Street and Wall Street, in connection with the Front Street Parking Garage project, and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is engaged in the Front Street Parking Garage project; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Finance and Management, in that it is immediately necessary to declare the necessity and intent to appropriate fee simple title in and to the hereinbefore described real estate necessary for the Front Street Parking Garage project so that there will be no delay in the project thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety, and welfare; now, therefore:
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That this Council hereby declares the necessity and intent to appropriate fee simple title in and to the following described real estate necessary for the Front Street Parking Garage project, pursuant to and in accordance with the Charter of the City of Columbus, Columbus City Code (1959) Revised, Chapter 909, the Constitution of the State of Ohio and Ohio Revised Code, Chapter 719; to-wit:
First Tract: Being the east one fourth part of Inlot number two hundred and fourteen (214) in said City of Columbus, as said Inlot is designated and delineated on the recorded plot of said city in Deed Book ________, page 338, in the office of the Recorder of Franklin County, Ohio
Second Tract: Part of said Inlot number two hundred and fourteen (214), bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point in the north line thereof forty-seven (47) feet from the northeast corner;
thence west with the said north line forty-five feet;
thence south on a line parallel with the east line of said Inlot number 214, sixty-two and one-half (62 ½) feet;
thence west with the south line of said Inlot forty-five (45) feet;
thence north on a line parallel with the east line of said Inlot No. 214, sixty-two and one half (62½) feet to the place of beginning.
Section 2. That the City Attorney be and hereby is authorized to cause a written notice of the adoption of this resolution to be served upon the owners, persons in possession of or persons having a real or possible interest of record in the above described premises in the manner provided by law.
Section 3. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this resolution is declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its adoption and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after adoption if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.