Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
The Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority (“CFA”) has requested that the City lease to it a 0.220 acre tract of real property within public right-of-way (“Leased Area”) and located under the bridge just north of the intersection of North High Street and Columbus Convention Center Drive, for the purpose of a future CFA parking lot, which will include the right of the CFA to construct and maintain certain improvements, so long as the Leased Area is used for the purposes as set forth in the Lease Agreement.
Accordingly, this legislation authorizes the director of the Department of Public Service to execute those document(s), as approved by the City Attorney, as necessary for the City to enter into a Lease Agreement with the CFA.
2. FISCAL IMPACT: None. The City is not expending funds.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Public Service to execute documents, approved by the City Attorney, for the City to lease to the Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority a tract of real property located within the public right-of-way. ($0.00)
Body
WHEREAS, the Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority (the "CFA"), a body corporate and politic created pursuant to Section 351.02 of the Ohio Revised Code, has requested that the City enter into a Lease Agreement, thereby allowing the CFA to construct and maintain certain improvements within the public right-of-way located under the bridge just north of the intersection of North High Street and Columbus Convention Center Drive; and
WHEREAS, it is in the City’s best interest to authorize the director of the Department of Public Service to execute a Lease Agreement with the CFA, thereby allowing the CFA to construct and maintain certain improvements within the public right-of-way; and
WHEREAS, the City Attorney shall approve all documents associated with a legislation; and
WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the Departmnet of Public Service to authorize the Director to enter into a Lease Agreement, as approved by the City Attorney’s Office, that will allow CFA to construct and maintain certain improvements, now therefore;
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the director of the Department of Public Service is authorized to execute a Lease Agreement, or other approved documents, with the Franklin County Convention Facilities (“CFA”) as necessary to allow the CFA to construct and maintain certain improvements within a certain 0.220 acre tract of real property within public right-of-way (“Leased Area”) as further described below-herein, and depicted in the corresponding attachment, which is incorporated into this ordinance by reference:
DESCRIPTION OF 0.220 ACRES
Situated in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, City of Columbus, Section 8, Township 5, Range 22, Refugee Lands and being on, over and across North High Street (all references are to the records of the Recorder’s Office, Franklin County, Ohio) and being more particularly described as follows:
BEGINNING at the intersection of the easterly right-of-way line of North High Street and the northerly right-of-way line of Convention Center Drive as shown on “Columbus Convention Center Drive Dedication Part 2”, of record in Plat Book 109, Page 88;
thence South 08° 22’ 30” East, with said easterly right-of-way line, a distance of 3.03 feet to a point;
thence South 81° 47’ 51” West, across said North High Street, a distance of 92.99 feet to a point in the westerly right-of-way line of North High Street;
thence North 08° 22’ 30” West, with said westerly right-of-way line, a distance of 102.64 feet to a point
thence North 81° 33’ 45” East, across said North High Street, a distance of 92.99 feet to a point in said easterly right-of-way line;
thence South 08° 22’ 30” East, a distance of 99.99 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING, containing 0.220 acre of land, more or less.
EVANS, MECHWART, HAMBLETON & TILTON, INC.
SECTION 2. That the City Attorney is required to approve all documents associated with this ordinance prior to the director of the Department of Public Service executing and acknowledging any of those document(s) on behalf of the City.
SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.