Explanation
The Public Service Department, Transportation Division, recently received a request from OhioHealth Corporation, asking that the City grant an encroachment easement 1 foot wide by 23.67 feet long into the west side of Sixth Street to allow for installation of an elevator in an existing parking garage located at 270-290 East Town Street. Per current Transportation Division practice, comments were solicited from interested parties, including other City departments before it was determined that there would be no adverse impact to the City upon the granting of this encroachment easement. A value of $500.00 was established for the granting of this easement.
Fiscal Impact: The City will receive a total of $500.00, to be deposited in Fund 748, Project 537650, as consideration for the granting of the requested encroachment easement.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested so construction can start immediately and the project can be completed by the end of the year as currently scheduled.
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To authorize the Director of the Public Service Department to execute those documents necessary to grant a 1 foot wide by 23.67 feet long encroachment easement into the west side of Sixth Street to allow for installation of an elevator in an existing parking garage at 270-290 East Town Street as requested by OhioHealth Corporation; and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Public Service Department, Transportation Division, recently received a request from OhioHealth Corporation asking that the City grant an encroachment easement 1 foot wide by 23.67 feet long into the west side of Sixth Street to allow for installation of an elevator in an existing parking garage located at 270-290 East Town Street; and
WHEREAS, per current Transportation Division practice, comments were solicited from interested parties, including other City departments before it was determined there would be no adverse impact to the City upon the granting of this encroachment easement; and
WHEREAS, a value of $500.00 has been established for the granting of the requested easement; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to execute those documents necessary to grant the requested encroachment easement so that construction of this improvement can begin immediately and can be completed by the end of the year thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That the Director of the Public Service Department be and is hereby authorized to execute those documents necessary to allow the City to grant the following described encroachment easement to OhioHealth Corporation; to-wit:
Situate in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, City of Columbus, in Section 16, Township 5, Range 22, Refugee Tract and being a 23.67 square foot tract of land encroaching in the right-of-way of Sixth Street, said tract further described as follows:
Beginning, for reference, at a point at the northeast corner of Lot Number 56 as shown upon the plat of Kelly's, Northrup and Kerr's Addition to the City of Columbus (also know as Central Reservation) of record in Deed Book 19, Page 464, Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio, at the northeast corner of a tract of land conveyed to OHIOHEALTH CORPORATION by deed of record in Instrument 200511090237672, Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio and at the intersection of the west right of way line of Sixth Street (Sixty (60) feet in width) with the south right of way line of Chapel Street (Thirty Three (33) feet in width);
Thence S 02°11'06" E along the west right of way line of Sixth Street, along a portion of the east line of said Lot No. 56 and along a portion of the east line of said OHIOHEALTH CORPORATION tract a distance of 61.41 feet to the point of beginning of the tract herein intended to be described;
Thence N 87°48'54" E a distance of 1.00 foot to a point;
Thence S 02°11'06" E a distance of 23.67 feet to a point;
Thence S 87°48'54" W a distance of 1.00 foot to a point in the west right of way line of Sixth Street, in the east line of said Lot No. 56 and in the east line of said OHIOHEALTH CORPORATION tract;
Thence N 02°11'06" W a distance of 23.67 feet along the west right of way line of Sixth Street, along a portion of the east line of said Lot No. 56 and along a portion of the east line of said OHIOHEALTH CORPORATION tract a distance of 23.67 feet to the point of beginning;
Containing 23.67 square feet (=0.001 acre) of land, more or less and subject to all easements and restrictions of record.
The above description was prepared by Jay R. Miller, Ohio Surveyor No. 8061, of C.F. Bird & R.J. Bull, Inc., Consulting Engineers & Surveyors, Columbus, Ohio, from best available Court House record in July, 2006. Basis of bearings is the South line of State Street being assumed at N 81°35'00" E. All other bearing are based upon this meridian.
Section 2. That the $500.00 to be received by the City as consideration for the granting of the requested encroachment easement shall be deposited in Fund 748, Project 537650.
SECTION 3. 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.