EXPLANATION
BACKGROUND:
The City’s Columbus Recreation and Parks Department (“CRPD”) manages Woodward Park, which is located at 5147 Karl Road, Columbus, Ohio 43229 a.k.a. Franklin County Tax Parcel Number 010-104774 (the “Park”). Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc., an Ohio corporation (“CGO”), desires to reconstruct its existing subsurface natural gas pipeline (the “Gas Line”) located under a portion of the Park. However, no recorded or unrecorded documentation can be found by either the City or CGO authorizing the placement of the Gas Line within the vicinity of the Gas Line’s existing location at the Park. As a result, CGO requests an easement from the City in order for CGO to appropriately reconstruct and manage the Gas Line into the future.
CRPD reviewed CGO’ easement request and supports granting the easement for consideration in the amount of Twenty Thousand and 00/100 U.S. Dollars ($20,000.00). Therefore, this ordinance authorizes the director of CRPD to execute those documents, as approved by the City Attorney, to quit claim grant to CGO a nonexclusive, perpetual, subsurface easement in order to install, monitor, construct, reconstruct, replace, operate, maintain, repair, and remove an underground natural gas pipeline utility and associated appurtenances in, under, and burdening a portion of the Park.
FISCAL IMPACT: The City’s receipt of the Twenty Thousand and 00/100 U.S. Dollars ($20,000.00) consideration from CGO is required to be deposited with CRPD Fund Number 223, Sub-fund Number 025.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION: Emergency action is requested so to not delay CGO’ reconstruction and management of the Gas Line, which preserves the public peace, health, property, safety, and welfare.
TITLE
To authorize the City's director of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department to execute those documents, as approved by the City Attorney, to quit claim grant a nonexclusive, perpetual, subsurface easement to Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc., an Ohio corporation, in...
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