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File #: 289X-2003    Version:
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 7/8/2003 In control: Safety Committee
On agenda: 7/21/2003 Final action: 7/22/2003
Title: To declare the necessity and intent to appropriate fee simple title in and to the real estate situated generally at the southwest corner of High and Rich Streets and to declare an emergency.
Explanation
 
Background:
Capitol South Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation has declared its intention to cause the redevelopment and improvement of the southwest corner of High and Rich Streets with a downtown housing project and to ask that Sections 5709.41 through 5709.43 of the Ohio Revised Code be employed to create a tax increment financing arrangement.  Resort to such statute requires that the City acquire and then dispose of the fee simple title to the real estate to be improved.  Otto Beatty, Jr., the owner of the real estate has conditioned acquisition negotiations upon the adoption of this Resolution, which declares the necessity and intent to appropriate fee simple title in and to the real estate to be improved.  Authorization of the actual acquisition and disposition of the real estate will require adoption of an ordinance at a future date.
 
Fiscal Impact:
No funding is required for this legislation.
 
 
 
Title
 
To declare the necessity and intent to appropriate fee simple title in and to the real estate situated generally at the southwest corner of High and Rich Streets and to declare an emergency.
 
 
Body
 
WHEREAS, the City is committed to eliminating conditions of, and preventing the recurrence of blight; and
 
WHEREAS, this Council has by Ordinance No. 1824-2003, adopted contemporaneously herewith, determined and found that the River South Redevelopment Area is a blighted area, as defined in Section 1728.01 of the Ohio Revised Code; and
 
WHEREAS, Capitol South Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation has declared its intention to cause the redevelopment and improvement of a portion of the River South Redevelopment Area, namely the southwest corner of High and Rich Streets, with a downtown housing project and to ask that Sections 5709.41 through 5709.43 of the Ohio Revised Code be employed to create a tax increment financing arrangement; and
 
WHEREAS, resort to such statute requires that the City acquire and then dispose of the fee simple title to the real estate to be improved; and
 
WHEREAS, Otto Beatty, Jr., the owner of the real estate has conditioned acquisition negotiations upon the adoption of this resolution; and
 
WHEREAS,  the City intends to appropriate fee simple title in and to the real estate to be improved in order to facilitate the redevelopment of the same and to alleviate conditions of blight on such real estate and in the surrounding area and; now, therefore,
 
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Safety and Judiciary in that it is immediately necessary to pass this ordinance as an emergency measure because of the subject property is the site of the One Rich Street Housing Project.  Emergency action is requested so that construction of the downtown housing project will not be delayed.  For construction to commence, this Resolution must be adopted, the property must be acquired and re-conveyed to Capitol South, tenants must be relocated and the existing buildings must be razed, all in time for the scheduled October commencement, if action or the effective date is delayed until September, then there will not be sufficient time to accomplish all that needs to be accomplished to commence construction before the Winter season for the preservation of 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 real estate hereinafter described 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:
 
Situated in the City of Columbus, County of Franklin and State of Ohio:
 
Being Inlots Numbered Two Hundred Fifty (250) and Two Hundred Fifty-One (251) in the City of Columbus, Ohio, as the same are numbered and delineated upon the recorded plat thereof, of record in Deed Book F, Page 332, Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio.
 
      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 Property in the manner provided by law.
 
      Section 3.      That this resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.
That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto,  which is hereby made a part hereof, this resolution is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and afters its adoption and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after adoption if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.