Explanation
BACKGROUND: Two annexations (AN04-025 and AN04-025), both passed in July of 2005, require transferring the parcels from their existing townships to Montgomery Township. Annexation AN04-025, 9.610 acres from Plain Township, was passed as a regular annexation and is therefore eligible to be transferred to Montgomery Township. Annexation AN04-028, 322.410 acres from Washington and Brown Townships, was passed subject to an annexation agreement between both of the townships and the City of Columbus requiring the City to transfer the land into Montgomery Township It is therefore the desire of the city of Columbus to extend the boundaries of Montgomery Township to include this annexed area. The following is an ordinance authorizing the submission of a petition to the Board of County Commissioners of Franklin County, Ohio requesting that the boundary lines of Montgomery Township be changed to make them identical with the corporate limits of the city of Columbus as they pertain to the two annexations mentioned above. The petition will be filed in accordance with Section 503.07 of the Ohio Revised Code.
.FISCAL IMPACT: None
Title
To authorize the submission of a petition to the Board of County Commissioners of Franklin County, Ohio, requesting a change in the boundary lines of Montgomery Township so as to make the boundary lines of Annexations AN04-025 and AN04-028 identical, with the corporate limits of the city of Columbus.
Body
WHEREAS on July 11, 2005 city council annexed 9.610 acres from Plain Township as a regular annexation, thus permitting the inclusion of the annexed area into Montgomery Township, and
WHEREAS on July 18, 2005 city council annexed 322.410 acres from Washington and Brown Townships subject to an annexation agreement with the townships requiring the city to transfer the annexed area to Montgomery Township: and
WHEREAS, it is deemed desirable to the city of Columbus that the boundaries of Montgomery Township should be extended so as to be identical with the corporate limits of the city of Columbus as they pertain to the two annexations mentioned above; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
Section 1. That pursuant to the provisions of Section 503.07 of the Ohio Revised Code the Director of the Department of Development be and is hereby authorized and directed on behalf of the city of Columbus to present to the Board of County Commissioners of Franklin County, Ohio, a petition requesting such changes in and extensions of the boundary lines of Montgomery Township as may be necessary so that said township may include therein that portion of certain townships which have, by order of the Board of County Commissioners of Franklin County, Ohio, been annexed to the city of Columbus during 2005, so as to make the boundary lines of Montgomery Township co-extensive with the corporate limits of the said city of Columbus in accordance with the maps attached to said petition.
Section 2. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.