EXPLANATION
BACKGROUND: The City owns real property located at 4262 Morse Road, Columbus, Ohio 43230, {Franklin County Tax Parcel 600-150029} (“Property”). The property is managed by the Department of Public Utilities (‘DPU”). It is further described and recorded in Instrument Number 196010130018551 Recorder’s Office, Franklin County, Ohio. The property is currently leased to the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (“SWACO”) and burdened by a 0.3243-acre electric service easement. In order to support SWACO’s operations at the site, there is a need for the Ohio Power Company, doing business as American Electric Power, (“AEP”) to install an additional transformer to provide electric service to the Property. AEP now requests the applicable 0.0024 electric utility easement, which will be adjacent to the existing easement, to burden a portion of the Property in order to maintain certain electric facilities and associated appurtenances for the service of electrical energy and impulses to the Property (“Easement”). The Department of Development reviewed the request in conjunction with the Department of Public Utilities and supports granting AEP an easement at no cost in consideration that (i) the Easement supports only electricity services to the Property, and (ii), the Easement will be nonexclusive.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE: Not applicable.
FISCAL IMPACT: Not applicable.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION: Not applicable
TITLE
To authorize the Director of the Department of Development, or their designee, to execute and acknowledge any document(s), as approved by the Department of Law, Real Estate Division, necessary to grant to the Ohio Power Company an electric utility easement to burden a portion of the City’s real property located at 4262 Morse Road, Columbus, Ohio. ($0.00)
BODY
WHEREAS, the City owns property at 4262 Morse Road, Columbus, Ohio 43230, {Franklin County Tax Parcel 600-150029} (“Property”); and
WHEREAS, the City intends to grant The Ohio Power Company, an Ohio corporation doing business as American Electric Power, (“AEP”) an electric utility easement to burden a portion of the Property in order to maintain certain electric facilities and associated appurtenances for the delivery electrical energy and impulses (“Easement”) solely for the benefit of the Property; and
WHEREAS, the City intends to quitclaim grant AEP the Easement in consideration (i) the Easement supports electricity services to the Property, and (ii) the Easement will be nonexclusive; and
WHEREAS, the City intends for the Director of the Department of Development, or their designee, to execute and acknowledge any document(s) necessary to quitclaim grant the Easement to AEP; and
WHEREAS, the City intends for the Department of Law, Real Estate Division to approve all document(s) associated with this ordinance; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Department of Development, or their designee, be, and hereby is, authorized to execute and acknowledge any document(s) necessary to quitclaim grant to the Ohio Power Company, an Ohio corporation doing business as American Electric Power, (“AEP”) and its successors and assigns an electric utility easement to burden a portion of the City’s real property located at 4262 Morse Road, Columbus, Ohio 43230, {Franklin County Tax Parcel 600-150029} (“Property”), which is described and depicted in the two (2) page attachment which is fully incorporated for reference as if rewritten, in order for AEP to nonexclusively maintain certain electric facilities and associated appurtenances for the delivery of electrical energy and impulses solely for the benefit of the Property.
SECTION 2. That the Department of Law, Real Estate Division is required to preapprove all document(s) executed by the City pursuant to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after the earliest period allowed by law.