EXPLANATION
BACKGROUND: The City owns real property located at 455 South Westgate Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43204 {Franklin County Tax Parcel 010-070763} (“Property”), commonly known as Westgate Park, which is managed by the Recreation and Parks Department (“CRPD”). The City is making improvements at this site and in order to complete that project Ohio Power Company, doing business as American Electric Power, (“AEP”) will need to upgrade overhead electric lines to provide electric service. AEP now requests the applicable electric utility easement to burden a portion of the Property in order to maintain certain electric facilities and associated appurtenances for the service of electrical energy and impulses to the Property (“Easement”). CRPD reviewed the request and supports granting AEP an approximate fifteen foot wide easement in consideration that (i) the Easement supports electricity services to the Property, and (ii), the Easement will be nonexclusive.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE: Not applicable.
FISCAL IMPACT: Not applicable.
EMERGENCY JUSTIFICATION: Emergency action is requested so that the electric infrastructure can be installed quickly to allow for construction on the property which will preserve the public peace, health, property, safety, and welfare.
TITLE
To authorize the Director of the Recreation and Parks Department to execute and acknowledge any document(s), as approved by the Department of Law, Real Estate Division, necessary to grant to the Ohio Power Company an electric utility easement to burden a portion of the City’s real property at 455 South Westgate Avenue, and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
BODY
WHEREAS, the City owns property at 455 South Westgate Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43204 {Franklin County Tax Parcel 010-070763} (“Property”); and
WHEREAS, the City intends to grant The Ohio Power Company, an Ohio corporation doing business as American Electric Power, (“AEP”) an electric utility easement to burden a portion of the Property i...
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