Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to execute and sign a petition to initiate the creation of the One Neighborhood New Community Authority. The petition is required in order to create a new community authority as provided under Chapter 349 of the Ohio Revised Code.
The One Neighborhood district encompasses portions of nine city blocks located in the Columbus downtown area north of Gay Street, west of Grant Avenue, south of Long Street and east of Fourth Street.
Emergency action is requested to allow the One New Neighborhood Community Authority to be created in a timely manner.
FISCAL IMPACT: No funding is required for this legislation.
Title
To authorize and direct the City Clerk to execute and sign a petition to create the One Neighborhood New Community Authority, on behalf of the City of Columbus and the Columbus City Council, as the "proximate city" under Ohio Revised Code Chapter 349; and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, Gay Street Condominium, LLC, as the owner or entity in control of approximately 5.912± acres in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio (the "Developer"), has requested that the City of Columbus, Ohio, as the "proximate city" under Ohio Revised Code Chapter 349, sign a petition (the "Petition") to create a new community authority under the provisions of Ohio Revised Code Chapter 349 in Franklin County and the City of Columbus, and to be known as the One Neighborhood New Community Authority; and
WHEREAS, in preparation for the creation of the new community authority under Ohio Revised Code Chapter 349, the Developer intends to file with the Franklin County Recorder a declaration of covenants and restrictions for the One Neighborhood New Community Authority which will set forth real estate covenants, restrictions, community development charges and other plans regarding the development, fees and obligations; and
WHEREAS, the proposed Petition has been delivered to the City of Col...
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