Explanation
1. Background:
The Department of Public Service in engaged in the Arterial Street Rehabilitation - Polaris Parkway project. The project consists of the widening of 0.57 mile of Polaris Parkway from I.R. 71 to Olde Worthington Road to provide a third through lane in both directions. Including the construction of a two-lane roundabout at the intersection of Olde Worthington Road at Orion Place. As part of the Polaris Parkway project, an existing private property basin was expanded for stormwater treatment purposes. Through the design, it was determined that the expanded basin area needed to be installed in an adjacent segment of existing Olde Worthington Road right-of-way that was no longer needed for a public roadway. The City previously acquired two sewer easements and a channel easement over the existing private basin in order for the City to maintain the basin as a whole (see Delaware County recorded instruments BK 1596 PG 2483 and BK 1596 PG 2491).
This legislation is for the City extinguish, convert and transfer 0.384 acres of existing Olde Worthington Road right-of-way to a City of Columbus tax parcel . This conversion allows for the expanded basin to be on City of Columbus property and not within public right-of-way, which will accordingly be maintained by the Department of Public Utilities.
2. FISCAL IMPACT
There is no expenditure associated with this Ordinance.
Title
To extinguish, convert and transfer a portion of existing Olde Worthington Road right-of-way to the Department of Public Utilities as a tax parcel. ($0.00)
Body
WHEREAS, The Department of Public Service wishes to extinguish, convert and transfer an approximate 0.384 acre portion of right-of-way from the Department of Public Service to the Department of Public Utilities to be used as a detention basin; and
WHEREAS, Extinguishing this right-of-way, converting and transferring the asset will facilitate improvements and enhancements to city-owned property; and should not exist as City right-of-way but should be under the control of the Department of Public Utilities as a tax parcel; and
WHEREAS, it was determined that, subject to the retention of a general utility easement for those utilities currently located within the right-of-way, the City will not be adversely affected by extinguishing this right-of-way and converting and transferring the asset among City Departments; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the 0.384 acre portion of right-of-way described as follows is no longer needed as public right of way and is extinguished, converted and transferred:
Situated in the State of Ohio, County of Delaware, Orange Township, and being in Farm Lot 17, Quarter Township 4, Township 3 North, Range 18 West of the United States Military Lands, being part of a roadway dedication plat as described in a plat to the City of Columbus of record in Dedication Plat of Polaris Parkway, Plat Book 24, page 137, proposed vacation; being part of a 0.715-acre tract as described in a deed to the City of Columbus of record in Official Record 541, Page 201, and being part of a 0.3175-acre tract as described in a deed to the City of Columbus of record in Official Record 553, Page 810, all references are to records of the Delaware County Recorder’s Office, Delaware County, Ohio, and being more particularly described as follows:
Beginning for reference at a southwesterly bent iron pin with an illegible cap at the northeast corner of a 1.815-acre tract as described in a deed to Polaris Car Wash, LLC, an Ohio Limited Liability Company, of record in Official Record 1840, Page 2125;
Thence South 39° 54’ 34” West along the easterly line of said 1.815-acre tract, also being the original westerly line of Olde Worthington Road, a distance of 30.60 feet to a magnetic nail set, said nail being the TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING;
Thence South 50° 05’ 26” East a distance of 60.00 feet to an iron pin set passing the original centerline of right of way of said Olde Worthington Road at a distance of 30.00 feet) in the original easterly right-of-way line of said Olde Worthington Road;
Thence along said easterly line, also being the easterly line of said 0.3175-acre tract and the westerly line of a 2.779-acre tract conveyed to C.S.P. Investments Inc., a Delaware Corporation, in Deed Volume 1919, Page 1646, South 39° 54’ 34” West a distance of 203.69 feet to an angle point (referenced by an iron pin with an illegible cap, South 35° 29’ 07” West a distance of 1.66 feet);
Thence continuing along the easterly line of said 0.3175-acre tract, also being the westerly line of said 2.779-acre tract, South 51° 26’ 28” West a distance of 68.70 feet to an iron pin set on the northerly right-of-way line of Polaris Parkway;
Thence along said northerly line South 89° 14’ 54” West a distance of 60.99 feet to an iron pin set on the westerly right-of-way line of said Olde Worthington Road, said pin also being the southeasterly corner of said 1.815-acre tract;
Thence along said westerly line, also being the easterly line of said 1.815-acre tract, North 39° 54’ 34” East a distance of 310.74 feet to the TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING and containing 0.384 acres.
This document and exhibit are based on a survey performed for the City of Columbus in November of 2017 and updated in January of 2024 by Carpenter Marty Transportation Inc. This description was prepared and reviewed on July 24, 2024 by Kevin P. Carpenter, Registered Surveyor Number 8124.
Monuments referred to as iron pins set are 5/8” diameter x 30” long iron bars with a yellow plastic cap marked “CMT, P.S. 8124”.
The bearings are based on the centerline of right-of-way of Polaris Parkway as North 89° 19’ 39” East as recorded in P.B. 1450, Pg. 927.
Section 2. That control of this asset is hereby transferred from the Public Service Department to the Department of Public Utilities.
Section 3. That a general utility easement in, on, over, across and through this excess right-of-way shall be, and hereby is, retained for those utilities currently located within said excess right-of-way.
Section 4. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.