Explanation
1. Background
The City of Columbus, Department of Public Service, received a request from Mode Architects on behalf of the property owner, 900 High Partners (Owner), asking that the City allow for an awning to project into the public right-of-way. This encroachment is part of a renovation and remodeling project, located at 900 South High Street. The encroachment will protrude into the public right-of-way approximately 4 feet. The following legislation authorizes the Director of the Department of Public Service to execute those documents necessary for the City to grant this encroachment to legally allow the awning to extend into the public rights-of-way as described below and depicted on the attached exhibit. Installation of this building element will enhance the building and fit into the architectural desire. A value of $500.00 for the encroachment easement was established.
2. Fiscal Impact
The City will receive a total of $500.00, to be deposited in Fund 7748, Project P537650, for granting the requested encroachment.
Title
To authorize the Director of the Department of Public Service to execute those documents necessary for the City to grant this encroachment easement within the public right-of-ways at 900 South High Street as needed for this project.
Body
WHEREAS, the City of Columbus, Department of Public Service, received a request from Mode Architects on behalf of 900 High Partners asking that the City allow for an awning to project into the public right-of-way; and
WHEREAS, this encroachment is part of a renovation and remodeling project located at 900 South High Street, owned by 900 High Partners, and will protrude into the public right-of-way approximately 4 feet; and
WHEREAS, installation of this building element will enhance the building and fit into the architectural desire; and
WHEREAS, a value of $500.00 for the encroachment easement was established; and
WHEREAS, it has become necessary in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Service to authorize the Director to execute those documents necessary for the City to grant this encroachment to legally allow the awning to extend into the public rights-of-way as described below and depicted on the attached exhibit; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Director of the Department of Public Service be and is hereby authorized to execute those documents necessary to grant the encroachment to legally allow the awning to extend into the public rights-of-way as described below and depicted on the attached exhibit; to-wit:
3 DIMENSIONAL ENCROACHMENT EASEMENT
Situated in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, City of Columbus, being a strip of land located in the right-of-way along the easterly side of South High Street and being further described as follows;
Beginning FOR REFERENCE at the intersection of the easterly right-of-way line of South High Street (100.00 feet in width) and the southerly right-of-way of East Whittier Street (60.00 feet in width), also being the northwesterly corner of Lot 116 as shown and delineated on the plat entitled “C.F. Jaeger’s 15th Addition”, a subdivision of record in Plat Book 1, Page 390, Recorder’s Office, Franklin County, Ohio; Thence South 8° 12’ 42” East, along the easterly right-of-way line of said South High Street, a distance of 43.30 feet to the TRUE PLACE OF BEGINNING;
Thence South 8° 12’ 42” East, continuing along said easterly right-of-way line, a distance of 50.70 feet to a point at the southwesterly corner of Lot 117 of the aforementioned “C.F. Jaeger’s 15Th Addition”;
Thence through the right-of-way of said South High Street the following courses;
1. South 81° 47’ 18” West, a distance of 4.25 feet to a point;
2. North 8° 12’ 42” West, a distance of 50.70 feet to a point;
3. North 81° 47’ 18” East, a distance of 4.25 feet to the TRUE PLACE OF BEGINNING;
The above described easement is a 3 dimensional easement that is located between elevations 765.2 feet and 766.3 feet. (NAVD 1988)
Bearings herein based on FPS observations resulting in a bearing of North 8° 12’ 42” West for the centerline of South High Street, being the Ohio State Plane Coordinate System, South Zone, NAD 1983.
This description was prepared by American Land Surveyors LLC, by Jon B. Adcock, Ohio P.S. No. 8461 and is based on a field survey performed in November, 2017.
SECTION 2. That the Department of Public Service will receive $500.00 for granting the encroachment, to be deposited into Fund 7748, Project P537650.
SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.