Explanation
Background: The following legislation authorizes the City Attorney to file the necessary complaints for the appropriation of fee simple title and lesser interests in and to real estate necessary for the Tuttle Crossing Boulevard Project.
Fiscal Impact: Funding for this project is from the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, 1995, 1999, 2004 Voted Street and Highways Fund.
Emergency action is requested to allow the Real Estate Division to proceed to acquire the necessary right-of-way as soon as possible to accommodate construction anticipated to take place in the first half of the year 2007.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to file the necessary complaints for the appropriation of fee simple title and lesser interests in and to real estate necessary the Tuttle Crossing Boulevard Project; to authorize the expenditure of $559,700.00 from the 1995, 1999, 2004 Voted Street and Highways Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($559,700.00).
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Ohio, a municipal corporation, is engaged in the acquisition of certain real property interests for the Tuttle Crossing Boulevard Project; and
WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Columbus, Ohio, adopted Resolution No. 0072X-2006, on the 1st day of May, 2006, and adopted Resolution No. 0003X-2007, on the 22nd day of January, 2007, respectively declaring the necessity and intent to appropriate the real property interests hereinafter described and the purpose of the appropriation, and notice of such adoption of said resolution has been served in accordance with Columbus City Code Sec. 909.03; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Public Service Department, Transportation Division, in that it is necessary to appropriate such real property interests so that there will be no delay in the aforementioned project, and for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, t...
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