Explanation
AN15-014
BACKGROUND: This ordinance is being submitted to authorize the Director of Development to file a municipal annexation petition for a 10.3 acre site in Jefferson Township, Franklin County. This property will be used by the City as a permanent Air Quality Control facility associated with the Blacklick Creek Sanitary Interceptor Sewer project. The site is currently vacant. Annexation will allow the construction and operation of the facility as well as any associated employment to take place within City limits. Additionally, this ordinance provides for the acceptance of the property by the City upon approval of the petition by the Franklin County Commissioners. This ordinance is required by the Ohio Revised Code as enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio. Upon approval by City Council, a certified copy of this ordinance will be provided to the Franklin County Commissioners in conjunction with an annexation petition.
FISCAL IMPACT: This ordinance has no direct fiscal impact. While the provision of the city services will represent a cost to the city, this annexation will also create revenue through the employment taking place on the site.
Title
To authorize the Director of Development to file a municipal petition for the annexation of 10.3 acres within Jefferson Township as provided in the Ohio Revised Code; and to provide for acceptance of the property by the City of Columbus upon approval of the petition by the Board of Franklin County Commissioners.
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus purchased 10.3 acres in Jefferson Township for uses associated with the Blacklick Creek Sanitary Interceptor Sewer project; and
WHEREAS, the site is not currently within the City of Columbus; and
WHEREAS, section 709.16 of the Ohio Revised Code allows for municipalities to file annexation petitions of territory owned by the municipality, a county or the state; and
WHEREAS, the City is able to provide municipal services to this site; and
WHEREAS, authorization by City Council is necessary for submission of a municipal annexation petition to the Board of Franklin County Commissioners; and
WHEREAS, upon receipt of the petition by the City to annex the site, the Board of Franklin County Commissioners must take action within 30 days; and
WHEREAS, whereas the City of Columbus desires to add the referenced territory described in detail in section 1 below to its boundaries if the petition is approved by the Board of Franklin County Commissioners; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of Development is authorized to file a municipal petition for annexation as outlined in section 709.16 of the Ohio Revised Code of 10.3+/- acres in Jefferson Township, Franklin County, located on Reynoldsburg-New Albany Road and associated with the Blacklick Creek Sanitary Interceptor Sewer project and described more specifically as follows:
Situated in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, Township of Jefferson, lying in Farm Lots 29 and 30, Quarter Township 4, Township 1, Range 16, United States Military District, being all of that 9.645 acre tract, Parcel Number 170-002534, conveyed to the City of Columbus by deed of record in Instrument Number 201409220124866 and part of the existing right-of-way ofReyno1dsburg-New Albany Road, (all references are to the records of the Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio, unless otherwise noted) and being more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at the northerly common comer of said 9.645 acre tract and Reserve "D" of that subdivision entitled "Blacklick Ridge Section 2, Part 2", conveyed to Jefferson Township Board of Trustees, Parcel Number 170-002827, in the southerly line of that 7.493 acre tract conveyed to Robert T. Child, Parcel Number 170-000169;
thence southerly, with the line common to said 9.645 acre tract and said Reserve "D", a distance of approximately 41 feet;
thence southerly, continuing with said common line, a distance of approximately 107 feet; thence southwesterly, continuing with said common line, a distance of approximately 177 feet; thence southerly, continuing with said common line, a distance of approximately 157 feet;
thence southerly, continuing with said common line, a distance of approximately 220 feet to the northerly right-of-way line of Blacklick Ridge Boulevard, the southerly common comer of said 9.645 acre tract and said Reserve "D";
thence with said northerly right-of-way line, the southerly line of said 9.645 acre tract, the following approximate courses and distances:
westerly, a distance of approximately 387 feet;
westerly, a distance of approximately 37 feet;
northwesterly, with the arc of a curve to the right, a chord distance of approximately 258 feet;
northwesterly, a distance of approximately 63 feet; and
northerly, with the arc of a curve to the right, a chord distance of approximately 28 feet to the easterly right-of-way line of Reynoldsburg-New Albany Road;
thence northwesterly, across said Reynoldsburg-New Albany Road, a distance of approximately 66 feet to the easterly line of an existing City of Columbus Corporation Line as established by Ordinance Number 1443-76 of record in Miscellaneous Record 166, Page 963;
thence northeasterly, with said existing corporation line, a distance of approximately 331 feet to the southwesterly corner of that 0.885 acre tract conveyed to the Board of County Commissioners by record of Common Pleas Case No. 73CV-06-1961, being an angle point in the westerly right-of-way line of said Reynoldsburg-New Albany Road;
thence northeasterly, with the line common to said 0.885 acre tract and that 2.529 acre tract conveyed to Weber Holdings-Westpick, Parcel Number 170-000165, being said westerly right-of-way line, a distance of approximately 99 feet;
thence easterly, across said Reynoldsburg-New Albany Road and with the line common to said 9.645 acre tract and that 1.407 acre tract conveyed to Robert T. Child, Parcel Number 170-000009 and the westerly extension thereof, a distance of approximately 461 feet to the southwesterly corner of said 7.493 acre tract;
thence easterly, with the line common to said 9.645 and 7.493 acre tracts, a distance of approximately 388 feet to the Point of Beginning, containing 10.3 +/- acres, more or less.
SECTION 2. That the City of Columbus will accept the territory described in Section 1 upon approval of the petition by the Board of Franklin County Commissioners.
SECTION 3. That the City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to perform such acts as set forth in R.C. 709.06, or as otherwise required by law, in order to ensure the proper recording of the annexation.
SECTION 4. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.