Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Directors of the Departments of Development and the Public Service to enter into a development agreement with Central Ohio Housing Development Organization, Inc., for street and infrastructure improvements in the public right of way. The project, American Addition, is in the Columbus Public School District and has boundaries of Twelfth Avenue to the north, Dewey Avenue to the south, Joyce Avenue to the west and Puritan Avenue to the east. This legislation is for infrastructure improvements for the first phase of the development which begins with a new water line running from Joyce Avenue down to Woodford Avenue and includes all necessary infrastructure improvements beginning at Woodford Avenue from the west side of the intersection of Sigsbee Avenue to the east side of the intersection of Miantonomah Alley, Lee Avenue from Woodford Avenue to Helena Alley and south on Lee Avenue in the public right of way to Dewey Avenue. The project in total will consist of 120 redeveloped lots in total with 12 homes constructed in the first phase.
Emergency action is requested so that the development agreement can be in place during the construction season.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funds for this project are from the Northland and Other Acquisitions Fund.
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To authorize the Directors of the Departments of Development and Public Service to enter into a development agreement with Central Ohio Housing Development Organization (a not-for-profit affiliate of the Columbus Housing Partnership) for infrastructure construction reimbursement as part of the American Addition Project, 2007 Capital Improvement Program; to authorize the expenditure of $1,000,000 from the Northland and Other Acquisitions Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($1,000,000) (AMENDED BY ORD. 0561-2010 PASSED 5/3/2010)(REPEALED BY OR. 0840-2011 PASSED 6/20/2011)
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WHEREAS, the Directors of the Departments of Development and Public Service desire to ent...
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