EXPLANATION
BACKGROUND:
In order to accept any real property interests conveyed to the City of Columbus, Ohio, an Ohio municipal corporation (“City”), the City is required to pass an ordinance authorizing the City’s acquisition and acceptance of any real property interests conveyed to the City. As a result, it is periodically necessary for the City to formally accept various types of real property interests previously donated or conveyed to the City (collectively, “Real-Estate-Interests” and whose instruments of conveyance are attached to this legislation and fully incorporated for reference), because the Real-Estate-Interests were not the subject of any City ordinances authorizing the Real-Estate-Interests’ acquisition and acceptance.
The City is using the Real-Estate-Interests for various public purposes, including but not limited to public sewer and water utilities, parkland, conservation, access, sidewalks, walkways, bikeways, shared-use paths, pedestrian walk bridges, parking garages, and development. The Real-Estate-Interests were each recorded in an appropriate county recorder’s office in the state of Ohio. Additionally, it may be necessary for the City to enter into tax agreements with the grantors of the Real-Estate-Interests in order to address real estate tax implications associated with the City’s acquisition and acceptance of the Real-Estate-Interests. Therefore, this ordinance: (I) is the City’s formal acceptance of the Real-Estate-Interests; and (II) authorizes the City’s directors of the departments of Recreation and Parks, Development, Public Utilities, Public Service, and Finance and Management to enter into associated tax agreements, as the case may be and as approved by the Columbus City Attorney, with the grantors of the Real-Estate-Interests.
FISCAL IMPACT: Not applicable.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION: Not applicable.
TITLE
To authorize: the City to formally accept certain real property interests donated or conveyed to the City...
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