Explanation
Background:
CSX Transportation, Inc. desires to expand their operations located along Groveport Road, to an adjoining 21.9 acres City owned property commonly known as Sills Park. Sills Park is used as a youth baseball facility with 5 ball diamonds, concession and storage buildings, parking and other support facilities. In exchange for Sills Park, CSX will design and construction a replacement park, to the City's satisfaction, with all the facilities and amenities now existing in Sills Park on a 23-acre site located in the vicinity of Wilson Avenue and Glendower next to Marion Franklin Recreation Center. The Recreation and Parks Department and the Commission have determined that the exchange would be in the best interest of the City of Columbus, allowing city's youth to take advantage of the new park for baseball without interruption and with newer facilities. The location of the new park will also supply Marion Franklin Recreation Center staff additional opportunities and space. This legislation authorizes the Director of the Recreation Department to execute those document necessary to the exchange the subject real properties.
Fiscal Impact: N/A
Emergency Justification: One of the contingencies of the Exchange Purchase and Sale Agreement is that City Council must approve the exchange in June as not to interrupt this year's baseball season.
Title
To authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks Department to execute an Exchange Purchase and Sale Agreement and any ancillary documents, between the City and CSX Transportation Inc., necessary for the exchange of Sills Park for a new replacement park of greater acreage to be constructed to the City's satisfaction by CSX, to waive the Land Review Commission provisions of the Columbus City Codes (1959) and to declare and emergency
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WHEREAS, CSX Transportation, Inc. desires to expand their operations located along Groveport Road to an adjoining 21.9 acres of City owned pr...
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