Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
The following ordinance authorizes the City Attorney's Office, Real Estate Division to hire professional services (e.g. surveys, title work, appraisals, etc.) and to negotiate with property owners to acquire the various property rights necessary to complete the Arterial Street Rehabilitation - E. Broad Street Widening Phase I project (P530103-100061) in the Far East Planning Area (58).
The Department of Public service is engaged in the Arterial Street Rehabilitation - E. Broad Street Widening project consisting of two phases. The project’s two phases will widen East Broad Street from east of I-270 to Reynoldsburg-New Albany Road. This legislation seeks to authorize expenditures to acquire various property rights for the first phase, which will construct new pavement for the widening and resurfacing of the existing pavement from the I-270 interchange to Outerbelt Street and will also include traffic signal improvements; addition of a shared use path, sidewalk, street lighting, street trees, signal interconnect conduit; and incidental improvements such as drainage, traffic control, sediment and erosion control, water adjustments, and maintenance of traffic.
Ordinance 1428-2021 authorized the appropriation and expenditure of funding in the amount of up to $2,200,000.00 to acquire right-of-way needed to complete the project’s first phase. This ordinance is authorizing an additional $172,000.00 to acquire the right-of-way needed to complete the project’s first phase. If the cost to acquire the needed right-of-way should exceed this estimate, additional legislation will be submitted to Council requesting the needed funding.
Ordinance 1658-2020 authorized the Director of Public Service, on behalf of the City of Columbus, to submit applications to and execute grant agreements with the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) for MORPC Attributable Funding, accepted and expended awarded grant funds, and issued refunds, if neces...
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