EXPLANATION
BACKGROUND:
The City of Columbus, Ohio, an Ohio municipal corporation ("City"), desires to grant to the State of Ohio, Department of Transportation (“ODOT”), a perpetual easement in, on, over, under, across, and through a portion of City-owned real property located in the vicinity of State Route 257, Powell, Ohio 43065 along the Scioto River [Delaware County Tax Parcel 31932302001001] (“Easement Area”). ODOT will use the Easement Area, which is more fully described within the body of this legislation, to construct a retaining wall to secure public right-of-way adjacent to the Easement Area for ODOT’s [DEL-257-0.00 - PID 89487] Project (“Project”). The City’s Department of Finance and Management determined that the Easement Area requested by ODOT to complete its Project should be granted at no charge, because of the Project’s benefit to the public and intergovernmental cooperation. Therefore, the following legislation authorizes the City’s Director of the Department of Finance and Management to execute those documents approved the Columbus City Attorney, Real Estate Division, to grant a perpetual easement to ODOT to complete the Project.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE ?: Not applicable.
FISCAL IMPACT: Not applicable.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION: Emergency action is requested so to not delay the benefit to the City resulting from ODOT’S Project, which will preserve the public peace, health, property, safety, and welfare.
TITLE
To authorize the Director of the Department of Finance and Management to execute documents approved by the Columbus City Attorney, Real Estate Division, to grant a perpetual easement to the State of Ohio, Department of Transportation, to construct a retaining wall to secure public right-of-way adjacent to a portion of City-owned real property located at Delaware County Tax Parcel 31932302001001; and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
BODY
WHEREAS, the City desires to grant ODOT a perpetual easement in, on, over, under, acr...
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