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To resolve to support Metro Parks in its Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund application for work at the Southern Tier and impound lot on the Whittier Peninsula; and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is interested in supporting the Metro Parks application to the Clean Ohio Council for the Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund, Sustainable Reinvestment Pilot Track, for remediation of the Southern Tier and impound lot on the Whittier Peninsula; and
WHEREAS, the state of Ohio, through the Clean Ohio Council, provides financial assistance to local governments for the purpose of addressing local needs; and
WHEREAS, Metro Parks is submitting a Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund Program application to complete eligible activities, including but not limited to the performance of remedial activities at the impound lot on the Whittier Peninsula redevelopment project; and
WHEREAS, the Southern Tier and impound lot on the Whittier Peninsula is an approximately 70-acre property located principally at 400 West Whittier Street, identified as permanent parcels numbers 010023620-80, 010023620-90, 010058167, 010249657, 010067084, and 010025989, and located within the boundary of the City of Columbus; and
WHEREAS, Metro Parks intends to remediate the property, which formerly operated as the Southern Tier and City of Columbus Car Impound Lot, for redevelopment into park land; and
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus is committed to working with Metro Parks to prepare and submit the application for the Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund to pursue the remediation and redevelopment of the property; and
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus has designated the project property consisting of the redevelopment of the Southern Tier and impound lot on the Whittier Peninsula as a high priority initiative; and
WHEREAS, the Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund grant is vital to making the completion of the Southern Tier and impound lot on the Whittier Peninsula redevelopment project economically feasible; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of City Council in that it is immediately necessary to express its support for the application described herein in order to meet the application deadline, for the preservation of public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That this Council hereby supports Metro Parks in its Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund application for work at the Southern Tier and impound lot on the Whittier Peninsula.
Section 2. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this resolution is declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its adoption and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after adoption if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.