Explanation
Background: The following legislation authorizes the City Attorney to file the necessary complaints for the appropriation of temporary construction easements in and to real estate necessary for the Leonard Avenue and Wildwood Avenue Stormwater System Improvements Project.
Fiscal Impact: N/A
Emergency Justification: Emergency action is requested to allow for the immediate acquisition of real property necessary to the project's completion, thereby allowing this project to maintain its acquisition schedule forward without delay.
Title
To authorize the City Attorney to file the necessary complaints for the appropriation of temporary construction easements in and to real estate necessary for the Leonard Avenue and Wildwood Avenue Stormwater System Improvements Project, and to declare an emergency.
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Ohio, a municipal corporation, is engaged in the acquisition of certain real property interests for the Leonard Avenue and Wildwood Avenue Stormwater System Improvements Project; and
WHEREAS, the Council of the City of Columbus, Ohio, adopted Resolution No. 0119X-2011, on the 18th day of July, 2011, 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 Department of Public Utilities, Division Sewerage and Drainage, 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 peace, property, health and safety; now, therefore:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
Section 1. That temporary construction easements in, over, under, across and through the following describe...
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