Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
The City of Columbus, Department of Public Service, received a request from Columbus Downtown Development Corporation (dba Downtown Columbus, Inc.), an Ohio not-for-profit corporation, (“DCI”) and Scioto Peninsula Holdings Ltd., an Ohio limited liability company, (“SPH”), asking that the City vacate a 0.045 acre portion of right-of-way known as Belle Street, so that it can subsequently be deeded from the City to SPH when the City deeds Lot 1 of the Scioto Peninsula Subdivision, as previously authorized by Ordinance Number 3345-2024.
The right-of-way area being extinguished is south of Broad Street and east of Starling Street and runs north/south directionally for approximately 150+/- feet and the width is 14+/- feet, abutted to the east by Franklin County Tax Parcel Number 010-300599, being Lot 1 of the Scioto Peninsula Subdivision as numbered and delineated in Plat Book 127 page 91.
The following ordinance allows the City to vacate the following rights-of-way: 0.045 acre portion of right-of-way known as Belle Street. Vacating this area of the right-of-way will allow the applicant to incorporate it into the adjoining parcel and develop a grocery store and multifamily residential property.
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 and transferring the asset among City Departments.
The Department of Public Service has agreed to vacate this strip of right-of-way to the City’s Department of Development until it can be subsequently deeded to SPH as described and shown within the attached legal description and extinguish its need for public right-of-way.
2. FISCAL IMPACT
No funding is required by thi...
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