Explanation
BACKGROUND: Property owners desire to annex 320.02 acres to the City of Columbus from Washington and Brown Townships. Both townships request that the land be removed from the townships if annexed. The Ohio Revised Code will only allow this if all parties agree to it in a Annexation Agreement. An agreement that both requires the City to remove the land from the townships and states that there will be no revenue sharing with the townships has been drafted and agreed upon by all parties. This legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Development to enter into an Annexation Agreement with the Trustees of both Brown and Washington Townships
FISCAL IMPACT: : None, however the annexation of land has the both potential to cost the city in the provision of services and create revenue to the city through new taxes.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Development Department to enter into an Annexation agreement with the Trustees of both Brown and Washington Townships and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, Columbus is desirous of obtaining the annexation of several parcels of real property within Brown and Washington located east of Cosgray Road and north of Hayden Run Road, and
WHEREAS, the Trustees of both Brown and Washington Townships are desirous of having Columbus conform the boundaries of the Annexation in order to exclude Brown and Washington from such area, and
WHEREAS, Both the City of Columbus and the Trustees of both Brown and Washington Townships have determined that it is in the best interest of their respective residents, citizens and taxpayers to enter into an Annexation Agreement requiring the removal of the annexed land from Brown and Washington Townships, and
WHEREAS, even though state law allows revenue sharing in these types of agreements, neither of the townships are requesting such revenue sharing and that the agreement will provide that there will be no revenue sharing, and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development in that it is immediately necessary to enter into this Annexation agreement all for the preservation of the public peace, property, health safety and welfare; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of the Department of Development is hereby authorized to enter into an Annexation Agreement with the Trustees of both Brown and Washington Townships pertaining to the annexation of 320.02 acres (AN04-028) from the townships to the City of Columbus.
Section 2. 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 vetoes the same.