Explanation
1. BACKGROUND
To authorize the Director of the Department of Public Service to execute those documents necessary for the City to grant revocable encroachment easements to Phillips Pharmacy to allow their steel roll-up door and a portion of their building (0.001 acres) to remain on City property within existing right-of-way, at 1017-1021 Mt Vernon Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43203 (parcel 010-029306).
The Department of Public service is engaged in the Roadway - Multimodal - Mt Vernon Avenue Phase 1 project. This project includes roadway improvements to the Martin Luther King Jr/Mount Vernon Avenue corridor from Hamilton Avenue to North Champion Avenue. Improvements include adding on-street separated bike paths with an added concrete median, floating bus islands at various locations, repaving the full width of the roadway, and sidewalk repairs.
The City of Columbus, Department of Public Service, received a request that the City grant a Revocable Encroachment Easement to allow their steel roll-up door and a portion of their building (0.001 acres) to remain on City property within existing right-of-way. The existing steel roll-up door and a portion of their building were identified to be encroaching into the right-of-way while reviewing the construction plans for the project. The existing steel roll-up door and building are not impacting any functionality of the right-of-way. Granting these encroachment easements is needed in order for ODOT and the City of Columbus to clear the right-of-way for this project. The following ordinance authorizes the Director of the Department of Public Service to execute documents necessary to grant these encroachment easements for the proposed steel roll-up door and a portion of their building into the public right-of-way.
Ordinance 0688-2023 authorized the Director of Public Service, on behalf of the City of Columbus, to submit applications to and execute grant agreements with the Ohio Department of Transportati...
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