Explanation
BACKGROUND
The City’s Department of Public Service received a request from Westar Neighborhood Retail Center, LLC, an Ohio limited liability company (“Westar”), requesting the City allow for decorative hardscape, landscaping, and wall/piers to encroach into the southeastern portion of the public right-of-way intersection of Olde Worthington Road (County Rd. 13) and Polaris Parkway (collectively, “Encroachments”). The Encroachments are part of Westar’s adjacent development project located at 807 Polaris Parkway, Columbus, Ohio 43240. The Department of Public Service reviewed Westar’s request for the Encroachments to encroach into a portion of the public right-of-way and supports quit claim granting encroachment easement rights to Westar in consideration and support of Westar’s development project known as the Westar Neighborhood Retail Center. Accordingly, this legislation authorizes the director of the Department of Public Service to execute those document(s), as approved by the City Attorney, necessary for the City to quit claim grant easement rights to Westar allowing for the Encroachments to be constructed and maintained into the southeast portion of the public right-of-way intersection of Olde Worthington Road (County Rd. 13) and Polaris Parkway.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE NUMBER: Not applicable.
FISCAL IMPACT: Not applicable
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION: Emergency action is requested to allow for Westar to complete its development without unnecessary delay, which will preserve the public peace, health, property, safety, and welfare.
Title
To authorize the director of the Department of Public Service to execute those document(s), as approved by the City Attorney, necessary for the City to quit claim grant easement rights to Westar Neighborhood Retail Center, LLC, an Ohio limited liability company, in order to construct certain encroachments into the southeastern portion of the public rights-of-way intersection of Olde Worthington Road (County Rd...
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