Explanation
BACKGROUND: One parcel currently held in the Land Bank has been approved for disposition. In order to complete the transfer, authorization is needed for the Director of the Department of Development to execute any and all agreements and deeds for conveyance of the real property. This legislation authorizes the transfer of one parcel located at 1844 E. Rich Street (010-005311) to Mark A. Stimple, who will rehabilitate the existing single family dwelling to be maintained as a rental unit. The parcel will be transferred by deed recorded in the Official Records of the Franklin County Recorder's Office.
FISCAL IMPACT: No funding is required for this legislation. The City may first recover reimbursement of any and all expenses incurred on account of the acquisition, administration, management, maintenance and disposition of such land and such other expenses of the program as the City may apportion to such land from the sale proceeds.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION: Emergency action is requested to expedite the transfer to reduce further deterioration of the structure and to immediately commence rehabilitation.
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To authorize the Director of the Department of Development to execute any and all necessary agreements and deeds for conveyance of title of one parcel of real property (1844 E. Rich Street) held in the Land Bank pursuant to the Land Reutilization Program and Neighborhood Stabilization Program; and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, ordinance 1860-2008 adopted the City's Neighborhood Stabilization Program, authorized the filing of the City's Neighborhood Stabilization Program application with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and made a substantial amendment to the Consolidated Plan's 2008 Action Plan; and
WHEREAS, ordinances 0234-2009 and 0136-2009 authorized the Director of the Department of Development's to expend funds and acquire properties under the Neighborhood Stabilization Program; and
WHEREAS, a proposal for the sale of the property which will be acquired pursuant to Ohio Revised Code Section 5722.06 meets the Land Reutilization Program's Disposition Policies and Guiding Principles and has been approved by the Land Redevelopment Office Administrator; and
WHEREAS, in order to complete the transfer of such property to the purchaser, authority is needed for the Director of the Department of Development to execute any and all necessary agreements and deeds of conveyance for the real property; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Development, Land Redevelopment Office in that it is immediately necessary to convey title of said parcel of real estate to expedite the transfer in order to reduce further deterioration of the structure and to immediately commence rehabilitation, all for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; and 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 execute any and all necessary agreements and deeds to convey title to the following parcel of real estate to Mark A. Stimple:
PARCEL NUMBER: 010-005311
ADDRESS: 1844 E. Rich Street, Columbus, Ohio 43205
PRICE: $11,500 plus a $38.00 recording fee
USE: Single Family Rental Unit
Situated in the County of Franklin City of Columbus and State of Ohio, and being described as follows:
Being the east half of Lot Thirty-Three (33) and Lot Number Thirty-Four (34) and fifteen feet off the West side of Lot Number Thirty-Five (35), in MARTIN AND STAGE'S SUBDIVISION OF LOTS I TO 26 OF FAIRWOOD ADDITION, as the same are numbered and delineated upon the recorded plat thereof, of record in Plat Book 2, Page 128, Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio:
Save and except the following two tracts:
TRACT 1:
Situated in the County of Franklin, in the State of Ohio, and in the City of Columbus:
Being part of Lot Thirty-Three (33) and Thirty-Four (34) as delineated on the Plat MARTIN AND STAGE'S SUBDIVISION, of record in Plat Book 2, page 128, (said plat was destroyed by fire on January 31, 1879, the City of Columbus 60 scale map No. 34-3 was used for record information), being 0.223 acre of land comprised of all of Parcel 1 and part of Parcel 11 as described in a deed to Manna Crest IV, of record in Official Record Volume 27891, page E-01, said 0.223 acre tract being more particularly described as follows:
Beginning for reference at a 1" diameter solid iron pin found at the intersection of the westerly right-of-way of Rich Street; Thence North 90 deg. 00' 00" West, along the northerly right of way line of said Rich Street, a distance of 260.87 feet to an iron pin set and the true place of beginning of the 0.223 acre tract:
Thence North 90 deg. 00' 00" West, continuing along the northerly right of way line of said Rich Street, a distance of 50.03 feet to an iron pin set, witness and iron pin found at the southwesterly corner of Lot 32 of said MARTIN AND STAGE'S SUBDIVISION at North 90 deg. 00' 00" West, a distance of 141.27 feet;
Thence North 2 deg. 01' 36" East, along a line through Lot 33, a distance of 194.00 feet to an iron pin set in the southerly right of way line of Walnut Street;
Thence North 89 deg. 57' 52" East, along the southerly right of way line of Walnut Street, a distance of 50.03 feet to an iron pin;
Thence South 2 deg. 01' 36" West, along a line through Lot 34 a distance of 194.03 feet to the place of beginning and containing 0.223 acres of land.
For the purpose of this description a bearing of North 90 deg. 00' 00" West was used on the northerly right of way line of Rich Street as no record bearing was found by plat or deed.
TRACT 2:
Situated in the County of Franklin, in the State of Ohio, and in the City of Columbus:
Being part of Lot Thirty-Three (33) and Lot Thirty-Four (34) as delineated on the plat MARTIN AND STAGE'S SUBDIVISION, of record in Plat Book 2, page 128 (said Plat was destroyed by fire on January 31, 1879, the City of Columbus GO scale map No. 34-3 was used for record information); being 0.253 acre tract being more particularly described as follows:
Beginning for reference at a 1" diameter solid iron pin found at the intersection of the westerly right of way line of Rhodes Avenue and the northerly right of way line of Rich Street; thence North 90 deg. 00' 00" West, along the northerly right of way line of said Rich Street, a distance of 154.14 feet to an iron pin set and the true place of beginning of the 0.253 acre tract;
Thence North 90 deg. 00' 00" West, continuing along the northerly right of way line of said Rich Street, a distance of 56.70 feet to an iron pin set, witness an iron found at the southwesterly corner of Lot 32 of said MARTIN & STAGE'S SUBDIVISION, at North 90 deg. 00' 00" West, a distance of 241.33 feet;
Thence North 2 deg. 01' 36" East, along a line through Lot 34, a distance of 194.07 feet to an iron pin set in the southerly right of way line of Walnut Street;
Thence North 89 deg. 67' 52" East, along the southerly right of way line of Walnut Street, a distance of 56.70 feet to an iron pin set;
Thence South 2 deg. 01' 36" West along a line through Lot 35, a distance of 194.10 feet to the place of beginning and containing 0.253 acre of land.
For the purpose of this description a bearing of North 90 deg. 00' 00" West was used on the northerly right of way line of Rich Street as no record bearing was found by plat or deed.
Section 2. That for good cause shown, Section 329.29 of the Columbus City Codes, 1959, is hereby waived.
Section 3. That Council hereby finds that the selection process utilized in this matter is in accordance with the Land Bank Disposition Process created pursuant to the City's Land Reutilization Program and hereby approves the same.
Section 4. 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.