City of Columbus - File #: 0689-2004

• File #: 0689-2004
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 3/31/2004
• In control: Development Committee
• On agenda: 4/19/2004
• Final action: 4/21/2004
• Title: To adopt the Harrison West Economic Development Plan as a guide for future economic development and in support of a tax increment financing district; and to declare an emergency.

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/21/2004	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
4/20/2004	1	MAYOR	Signed
4/19/2004	1	Columbus City Council	Approved	Pass
4/19/2004	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
4/7/2004	1	City Clerk's Office	Sent back for Clarification/Correction
4/7/2004	1	Dev Drafter	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council
4/1/2004	1	Dev Drafter	Sent for Approval
4/1/2004	1	DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR	Reviewed and Approved
4/1/2004	1	Dev Drafter	Sent for Approval
4/1/2004	1	CITY ATTORNEY	Reviewed and Approved
4/1/2004	1	Dev Drafter	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council

Explanation

BACKGROUND:

The Department of Development is proposing to establish an incentive district under Section 5709.40 (C) of the Ohio Revised Code. The proposed district includes portions of the Harrison West neighborhood northwest of downtown Columbus. One of the prerequisites for the creation of an incentive district is adoption, by the City Council, of a written economic development plan for the incentive district. The Harrison West Economic Development Plan has been prepared to enable the creation of the proposed incentive district in Harrison West and is the subject of this ordinance.


FISCAL IMPACT: No funding is required for this legislation.


Title

To adopt the Harrison West Economic Development Plan as a guide for future economic development and in support of a tax increment financing district; and to declare an emergency.


Body

WHEREAS, Section 5709.40 of the Ohio Revised Code authorizes the legislative authority of a municipal corporation to create, by ordinance, an incentive district and declare improvements within that district to be of public purpose; and

WHEREAS, an incentive district must contain distress characteristics which may be defined as inadequate public infrastructure, as evidenced by a written economic development plan; and

WHEREAS, the Planning Division of the Department of Development has studied the Harrison West neighborhood and prepared the Harrison West Economic Development Plan to facilitate the creation of an incentive district in Harrison West; and

WHEREAS, the recommendations contained in the Harrison West Economic Development Plan address the impacts of growth, infrastructure needs, and the insufficiency of neighborhood parkland; and

WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Development Department in that it is immediately necessary to adopt the Harrison West Economic Development Plan as a necessary component in the creation of a Ta...