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File #: 1739-2003    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 6/30/2003 In control: Recreation & Parks Committee
On agenda: 7/21/2003 Final action: 7/22/2003
Title: To authorize the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department to execute those documents, as requested by Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc., necessary to grant an perpetual non-exclusive easement in, under, across, over and through certain City owned real property located in the vicinity of Sancus Boulevard and Brockwell Drive and to declare an emergency.
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Background:    The City of Columbus is the owner of certain real property located in the vicinity east of Sancus Boulevard and Brockwell Drive, more fully describe in the body of this legislation.  Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc., desires to tie into an existing gas main within the Worthington Glen Condominium and extend it to provide service to the Lazelle Community Center.  The gas line will cross the aforementioned City owned real property and therefore Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc. has requested they be granted a perpetual easement.  After investigation, it has been determined that the granting of a perpetual easement will not adversely affect the City, and will provide service to a proposed future City Recreation Center and should be granted at no charge.  The following legislation authorizes the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department to execute those instruments necessary to grant the subject easement.Fiscal Impact:    N/AEmergency Justification:   Emergency action is requested to allow the immediate granting of the aforementioned utility easement and the subsequent benefit of future Gas service to certain City owned property to proceed without delay.
 
Title
To authorize the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department to execute those documents, as requested by Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc., necessary to grant an perpetual non-exclusive easement in, under, across, over and through certain City owned real property located in the vicinity of Sancus Boulevard and Brockwell Drive and to declare an emergency.
 
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WHEREAS,      The City of Columbus is the owner of certain real property located in the vicinity east of Sancus Boulevard and Brockwell Drive, more fully describe in the body of this legislation.; and
 
WHEREAS,      Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc., desires to tie into an existing gas main within the Worthington Glen Condominiums and extend that line to provide service to the Lazelle Community Center; and
 
WHEREAS,      the gas line will cross the aforementioned City owned real property and therefore Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc., has requested they be granted a perpetual easement; and
 
WHEREAS,      after investigation, it has been determined that the granting of a perpetual easement will not adversely affect the City, and will provide service to a proposed City Recreation Center and should be granted at no charge and
 
WHEREAS,      an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the City of Columbus, that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department to execute those instruments prepared by the Real Estate Division, Department of Law, necessary to grant a perpetual non-exclusive easement in, under, across, over and through certain real property located in the vicinity of Sancus Boulevard and Brockwell Drive for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property and safety; now, therefore:
 
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
 
 
      Section 1.      That the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department be and hereby is authorized to execute those documents prepared by the Department of Law, Real Estate Division necessary to grant a perpetual non-exclusive easement in, under, across, and through the following described real property, for so long as said easement is used for the purposes herein mentioned, to install, construct, reconstruct, operate, maintain, repair and remove a gas pipeline and appurtenance thereto (the "improvement"):
 
      Situated in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, City of Columbus, Section 1, Township 2, Range 18, United States Military Lands.  Being part of a 14.396 acre tract of land as conveyed to City of Columbus, Ohio, as recorded in Inst. 199906080144687 and also being part of a 39.152 acre tract of land as conveyed to City of Columbus, Ohio, as recorded in O.R. 28345, G-14.  All references to records being on file in the Office of the Recorder, Franklin County, Ohio.
      Beginning at a point at the intersection of the North line of said 14.396 acre tract with the Southwest corner of said 39.152 acre tract, and being the True Place Of Beginning;
      Thence, along the West line of said 39.152 acre tract, N 03º 12' 41" E, a distance of 100.00 feet to a point;
      Thence, with the next (2) new lines crossing said 39.152 acre tract, S 86º 56' 01" E, a distance of 20.00 feet to a point;
      Thence S 03º 12' 41" W, a distance of 100.00 feet to a point on the North line of said 14.396 acre tract;
      Thence, with the North line of said 14.396 acre tract also being the South line of said 39.152 acre tract, S 86º 56' 01" E, a distance of 205.00 feet to a point;
      Thence, with the next (3) new lines crossing said 14.396 acre, S 03º 12' 41" W, a distance of 20.00 feet to a point;
      Thence N 86º 56' 01" W, a distance of 225.00 feet to a point;
      Thence N 03º 12' 41" E, a distance of 20.00 feet to said True Point Of Beginning, and containing 6,500.02 square feet (0.149 acres) of land.
      For purposes of this description, the bearings where based upon the North line of said 14.396 acre tract as being S 86º 56' 01" E.
Prior Instrument Reference:      Instrument Number 199906080144687,
O.R. Vol. 28345, Pg. G-14,
      Recorder's Office, Franklin County, Ohio.
 
      Section 2.      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 passage and approval by the Mayor or ten days after its passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.