Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
The City of Columbus, Department of Public Service, received a request from Camden Land Holdings, LLC asking that the City transfer all of the 8 foot alley from the original easterly Right-of-Way line of St. Clair Avenue to the extension of the westerly line of the first 15 foot alley east of said St. Clair Avenue, originally dedicated and subsequently vacated in Wooley’s Addition as numbered and delineated in Plat Book 4 page 173, Franklin County Recorder’s Office, said alley being described in a boundary survey of 1,000 square foot (0.023 acre +/-).
The Department processed the request and submitted legislation to Council that was passed by ordinance 3193-2024. A Quitclaim deed was then created by the City Attorney’s Office for recording at the Franklin County Recorders Office. The County determined that the Quitclaim deed was not sufficient to clear title into the adjacent owner, Camden Land Holdings, LLC, so the City withdrew the submission. To correct and clear title the Franklin County Recorder’s Office is requiring that the strip of right-of-way described below to be vacated.
The following ordinance allows the City to vacate the following rights-of-way: an 8 foot alley in Wooley’s Addition, being a 1,000 square foot (0.023 acre +/-) portion of the first alley north of Camden Avenue and east of St. Clair Avenue. Vacating this area of the right-of-way will allow the applicant to clear title and incorporate it into the surrounding parcel, to then be combined into one parcel.
Per current practice, comments were solicited from interested parties, including City agencies, private utilities and the applicable area commission, before it was determined that, subject to the retention of a general utility easement for those utilities currently located within the right-of-way, the City will not be adversely affected by vacating this portion of right-of-way.
The Department of Public Service has agreed to vacate this strip of right-of...
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