Explanation
BACKGROUND: In 2005 the Northland Alliance, the Morse Road SID Exploratory Committee, and the City of Columbus Development Department initiated an effort with property owners on Morse Road from Indianola Avenue to Cleveland Avenue to create a Special Improvement District (SID). On October 12, 2005, the City Council Jobs and Economic Development Committee was briefed on the plans and progress of the Morse Road SID. The property owners, using the single petition method, have successfully attained the signatures of owners representing at least 60% of the front feet contained in the District. The attached petition (and its accompanying services plan, district boundaries description, parcel list, and map) requests City Council to create a ten year Morse Road SID whose primary purpose is to provide public space services to maintain and keep clean the area of the Morse Road enhancement project being undertaken in the same area by the City of Columbus.
Companion legislation is being presented that approves the petition and Articles of Incorporation of the Morse Road Special Improvement District and the inclusion of properties owned by the City of Columbus I the district.
This legislation is for the approval of the Plan for Improvement and Services to be provided by the Morse Road Special Improvement District of Columbus, Inc. pursuant to Ohio Revised Code Chapter 1710. This legislation is also for the approval of the properties of the municipal corporation in said plan for improvements and services.
FISCAL IMPACT: No funding is required for this legislation.
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To resolve to approve the plan for improvements and services to be provided by the Morse Road Special Improvement District of Columbus, Inc.; and to approve the properties of the municipal corporation in said plan for improvements and services.
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WHEREAS, the property owners located on Morse Road from Indianola Avenue to Cleveland Avenue have initiated a petition to create the Special Improvement District (SID) and to approve the plan for improvements and services and have filed the petitions with the Columbus City Council along with the Articles of Incorporation for Special Improvement District, Inc. a non-profit corporation to be responsible for the operation of the SID; and
WHEREAS, the petition to create the Special Improvement District, Inc. is a companion piece of legislation that will go before Council at the same time as this piece of legislation; and
WHEREAS, the Columbus City Council by the same ordinance is being asked to authorize that the properties of the municipal corporation abutting upon the streets described in the petition are included in the district; and
WHEREAS, this legislation is for the approval of the Plan for Improvements and Services to be provided by the Morse Road Special Improvement District of Columbus, Inc. pursuant to Ohio Revised Code Chapter 1710; and
WHEREAS, the Clerk of Columbus City Council finds the property owners per the signed petition and the City per this resolution represents at least sixty percent (60%) of the front footage of the property located in the Capitol Crossroads Special Improvement District per Section 1710; and
WHEREAS, it is the determination of the City Council that the SID is a valuable tool for economic development and a means of continuing to improve the Morse Road area; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the attached Plan of Improvements and Services, including the estimate of cost of the improvements and services to be provided by the Morse Road Special Improvement District of Columbus, Inc., now on file with the Clerk of Columbus City Council, and all of which are incorporated herein as "Attachment A," are hereby approved.
Section 2. That the Mayor or his designee is hereby authorized in writing that the properties of the municipal corporation abutting upon the streets described in the petition are included in the Plan of Improvements and Services as required by the Ohio Revised Code, Chapter 1710
Section 3. That the Clerk of Columbus City Council is hereby directed to post a copy of this Ordinance in the Office of the Clerk of Columbus City Council as provided by the Ohio Revised Code, Chapter 1710.
Section 4. Any expenditure required by the City pursuant to Ordinance No. 0414-2006 is subject to and expressly contingent upon the prior authorization and appropriation for such purposes by ordinance duly passed by the City Council and certification by the City Auditor that such monies are in the City treasury to the credit of the fund from which they are to be drawn and are not appropriated for any other purposes.
Section 5. That this resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.