Explanation
Background:
The following legislation authorizes the City Attorney to file the necessary complaints for the appropriation of fee simple title in and to real estate necessary for the Academy Park Area Project.
Fiscal Impact: N/A.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to allow the improvement of Academy Park to proceed in a timely manner.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to file the necessary complaints for the appropriation of fee simple title in and to real estate necessary for the Academy Park Area Project, and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Ohio is engaged in the acquisition of certain real property interests for the expansion of Academy Park ; and
WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Columbus, Ohio, adopted Resolution No. 0013X-2005, on the 7th day of March, 2005, declaring the necessity and intent to appropriate the real property interests hereinafter described and the purpose of the appropriation, and notice of such adoption of said resolution has been served on the property owner; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Recreation and Parks, in that it is necessary to appropriate such real property interests so that there will be no delay in the aforementioned project, 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 fee simple title in and to the following described real property, be appropriated for the public purpose of the expansion of Academy Park, Project # 440006, pursuant to the power and authority granted to a municipal corporation by the Constitution of the State of Ohio, the Ohio Revised Code, Sec. 715.01, Sec. 717.01, Sec. 719.01 through Sec. 719.02; the Charter of the City of Columbus; and the Columbus Code (1959), Chapter 909;
Situated in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin and in the City of Columbus,
Being Lot No. Twenty-three (23) and Twenty-four (24) of RICHARD CLAYTON'S CITY ADDITION, as the same is numbered and delineated upon the recorded plat thereof, of record in Plat Book 7, page 44, Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio.
Property commonly known as 352 Nelson Road, Columbus, Ohio
Tax parcel No. 010-43629
Section 2. That the Council of the City of Columbus, Ohio, declares that the appropriation of said real property interests is necessary for the stated public purpose, and that the City of Columbus, Ohio, has been unable to agree with the owner(s) as to the just compensation to be paid by the City of Columbus, Ohio.
Section 3. That the Council of the City of Columbus, Ohio, hereby declares the value of the subject real property interests to be Nineteen Thousand Dollars ($19,000.00).
Section 4. That the City Attorney be and he hereby is authorized to file a complaint for appropriation of real property, in a court of competent jurisdiction, and to have a jury impaneled to make inquiry into and assess the just compensation to be paid for the foregoing described real property interests.
Section 5. That for the reasons state 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 its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.