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 Hard Road Phase C Project.
Fiscal Impact: Funding for this project is from the Federal/State Highway Engineering Fund.
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to allow the acquisition of the parcels necessary for this project to proceed without delay in order begin construction in early 2006 requiring right-of-way acquisition to be complete by November 1, 2005.
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 for the Hard Road Phase C Project, to authorize the expenditure of $15,825.00 from the Federal-State Highway Engineering Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($15,825.00).
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Ohio, a municipal corporation, is engaged in the acquisition of certain real property interests for the Hard Road Phase C Project; and
WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Columbus, Ohio, adopted Resolution No. 235X-2004, on the 1st day of November, 2004, 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, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That fee simple title and lesser interests in and to ...
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