header-left
File #: 1824-2003    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 7/8/2003 In control: Development Committee
On agenda: 7/21/2003 Final action: 7/22/2003
Title: To determine and declare that the River South Redevelopment Area is a blighted area, as defined in Section 1728.01 of the Ohio Revised Code and to declare an emergency.
Explanation
 
Background:
Capitol South Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation has declared its intention to cause the redevelopment 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 determine that the real estate is situated in a blighted area.  This Ordinance commences the requisite process by determining that the River South Redevelopment Area is blighted.   This Ordinance is companion legislation to the Resolution declaring the necessity and intent to acquire the fee simple title to the real estate situated generally at the southwest corner of High and Rich Streets.
 
Fiscal Impact:  
No funding is required for this legislation.
 
 
 
Title
 
To determine and declare that the River South Redevelopment Area is a blighted area, as defined in Section 1728.01 of the Ohio Revised Code and to declare an emergency.
 
 
Body
 
WHEREAS, the City is committed to eliminating conditions of, and preventing the recurrence of blight; and
 
WHEREAS, the City's Department of Development, Economic Development and Planning Services, published in the Fall of 2000 a Blight Assessment, with respect to the area know generally as Downtown South and delineated specifically in the assessment, which assessment documented the presence of blighting influences as defined in Section 1728.01 of the Ohio Revised Code; and
 
WHEREAS, the City Department of Development, Downtown Development Office, published on July 11, 2003, a Supplemental Report, with respect to the portion of Downtown South known generally as the River South Redevelopment Area and delineated specifically in the report, which report documented the extent of undeveloped property, vacant property and dilapidated improvements; and ; now, therefore:
 
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to pass this ordinance as an emergency measure because this declaration of  blight is requried for the development 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 ordinance must be adopted, the property must be acquired and reconveyed 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 construciton before the Winter season for the preservation of  the public health, peace, property,  safety, and welfare; now therefore:
 
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
 
Section 1.      That, based on the Blight Assessment and the Supplemental Report, this Council finds that the River South Redevelopment Area, which area is described as follows:
 
Commencing at the intersection of the centerlines of Town and High Streets; thence southerly along the centerline of High Street to the centerline of Mound Street; thence  westerly along the centerline of Mound Street to the centerline of Civic Center Drive; thence northerly along the centerline of Civic Center Drive to the centerline of Noble Street; thence easterly along the centerline of Noble Street to the centerline of Second Street; thence northerly along the centerline of Second Street to the centerline of Main Street; then continuing north along the centerline of Civic Center Drive to the centerline of Cherry Street; thence easterly along the centerline of Cherry Street to the centerline of Ludlow Street; thence northerly along the centerline of Ludlow Street to the centerline of Town Street; and thence along the centerline of Town Street to the centerline of High Street, the place of beginning;
 
is a blighted area, as defined Revised Code Section 1728.01(E).
 
      Section 2.      That this ordinance 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 ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetos the same.