Explanation
BACKGROUND: This resolution by the City of Columbus, Ohio ("City"), is to declare the City's necessity and intent to appropriate fee simple title and lesser interests to real estate necessary for the City's Department of Public Service, Division of Design and Construction, Project 2955 Dr E, Pedestrian Safety Improvements - Smoky Row Sidewalks - Hard Road to Smoky View.
FISCAL IMPACT: N/A.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION: Emergency action is requested to allow for the acquisition of the parcel for this project to proceed without delaying the commencement of this project's construction, which will preserve the public peace, health, property, safety, and welfare.
Title
To declare the City's necessity and intent to appropriate fee simple title and lesser interests to real estate necessary for the City's Department of Public Service, Division of Design & Construction, Project 2955 Dr E, Pedestrian Safety Improvements - Smoky Row Sidewalks - Hard Road to Smoky View; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Ohio ("City"), an Ohio municipal corporation, is engaged in the acquisition of certain real property interests for the City's Department of Public Service, Division of Design and Construction, Project 2955 Dr E, Pedestrian Safety Improvements - Smoky Row Sidewalks - Hard Road to Smoky View; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Service, Division of Design and Construction, because it is immediately necessary to declare the City's necessity and intent to appropriate fee simple title and lesser interests in the aforementioned project; so there will be no delay in the aforementioned project; and for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, welfare, and safety; and, now therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS, OHIO:
SECTION 1. Pursuant to the Charter of the City of Columbus, Columbus City Revised Code, Chapter 909 (1959), Constitution of the State of Ohio, and Ohio Revised Code, Chapter 719, this Council declares the City's necessity and intent to appropriate fee simple title and lesser interests to the following listed parcel of real estate, which is more fully described in attached Exhibit "A" and made a part of this resolution, is necessary for the City's Department of Public Service, Division of Design and Construction, Project 2955 Dr E, Pedestrian Safety Improvements - Smoky Row Sidewalks - Hard Road to Smoky View:
EXHIBIT PARCEL NUMBER
"A" 1-SW
SECTION 2. The Columbus City Attorney is authorized to cause a written notice of this resolution's adoption to be served upon the owner, persons in possession of the aforementioned real property, or persons possessing a real or possible interest of record in the aforementioned real property in the manner provided by law.
SECTION 3. For the reasons stated in the preamble, which is made a part of this resolution, this resolution is declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in full force after its passage and approval by the Mayor or ten days after its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes this resolution.