EXPLANATION
BACKGROUND: The City’s Department of Public Service (DPS) is performing Arterial Street Rehabilitation - Hamilton Road - I-70 to Refugee (FRA-SR317-10.630 PID Number 95570) Public Improvement Project (“Public Project”). The City must acquire certain fee simple title and lesser real estate located in the vicinity of Hamilton Road between Refugee and I-70 (collectively, “Real Estate”) in order for DPS to timely complete the Public Project. The City passed Ordinance Number 0229-2017 authorizing the City Attorney to acquire the Real Estate. Furthermore, the City also adopted Resolutions 0003X-2018, 0297X-2018 and 0006X-2019 establishing the City’s intent to appropriate the Real Estate. Additionally, the City passed Ordinance 3283-2018 stating the City’s intent to appropriate the real estate. The City is now seeking to add an additional appropriation for parcel 27-T2 that was inadvertently left off the initial resolution and subsequently included in Resolution Number 0006X-2019, and amend the funding allocation for parcel 40 to include funds going to parcel 40-BS. This ordinance does not require additional funding beyond what was addressed in ordinance 3283-2018, but instead amends parcels 27 and 40 on the initial appropriation ordinance to reflect proper service and fund allocation. All of the other parcels addressed in Ordinance 3283-2018 are to remain the same. The City’s acquisition of the Real Estate will help make, improve, or repair certain portions of the public right-of-way of Hamilton Road between Refugee Road and I-70 Columbus, Ohio 43232 which will be open to the public without charge.
The City Attorney, pursuant to Columbus City Code, Section 909.03, served notice to all of the owners of the Real Estate of the (i) Public Project’s public purpose and necessity, and (ii) adoption of Resolutions 0003X-2018, 0297X-2018 and 0006X-2019. However, the City Attorney was unable to either locate some of the Real Estate’s owner(s) or agree with some o...
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