Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
To authorize the Director of the Department of Public Service to execute those documents necessary for the City to grant revocable encroachment easements to Deloris C. Harrington to allow their retaining wall (0.003 acres) to remain on City property within existing right-of-way, at 1157-1159 Mt Vernon Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43203 (parcel 010-040086 and 010-000754).
The Department of Public service is engaged in the Roadway - Multimodal - Mt Vernon Avenue Phase 1 project. This project includes roadway improvements to the Martin Luther King Jr/Mount Vernon Avenue corridor from Hamilton Avenue to North Champion Avenue. Improvements include adding on-street separated bike paths with an added concrete median, floating bus islands at various locations, repaving the full width of the roadway, and sidewalk repairs.
The City of Columbus, Department of Public Service, received a request that the City grant a Revocable Encroachment Easement to allow their retaining wall (0.003 acres) to remain on City property within existing right-of-way. The existing retaining wall was identified to be encroaching into the right-of-way while reviewing the construction plans for the project. The existing retaining wall is not impacting any functionality of the right-of-way. Granting these encroachment easements is needed in order for ODOT and the City of Columbus to clear the right-of-way for this project. The following ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Public Service to execute documents necessary to grant these encroachment easements for the proposed retaining wall into the public right-of-way.
Ordinance 0688-2023 authorized the Director of Public Service, on behalf of the City of Columbus, to submit applications to and execute grant agreements with the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) for Highway Safety Improvement Program funds for the Operation Safewalks - FRA - SRTS Mt. Vernon Avenue project.
2. FISCAL IMPACT
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