Explanation
BACKGROUND: This Council is being asked to approve and to declare the necessity to implement the Plan for Public Services and Improvements (Plan of Services) adopted by the University District Special Improvement District of Columbus, Inc. and the necessity to levy a special assessment for the services set forth in said Plan of Services upon the lots and lands benefiting under the Plan, and to declare an emergency.
The University District Special Improvement District was created in 2015 with 75 percent of the owners of all real property located within the district signed a petition acknowledging that they were interested in creation of the Special Improvement District and approved of the Plan for Public Services and Improvements. The petition was accepted and approved by Columbus City Council by Ordinance No. 0641-2015, passed on March 23, 2015.
The current term of the University District Special Improvement District (University District SID) will conclude in December 2020.
A one petition process has been initiated in which at least 60 percent of the frontage owners of all real property located within the District signed that they are interested in reauthorizing the SID and they approve of the Plan of Improvements and Services to be provided by the University District SID. This petition to reauthorize the University District SID was accepted and approved by Columbus City Council by Ordinance No. 0800-2020, passed May 4, 2020. Another action required by the Ohio Revised Code is the approval of the Plan of Public Services and Improvements. This legislation was approved by City Council by Resolution No. 0066X-2020, passed May 18, 2020.
This legislation is the third of four actions required by Chapter 1710 of the Ohio Revised code to reauthorize.
Emergency action is required to allow the University District Special Improvement District of Columbus, Inc. to implement its Plan of Services and to permit the special assessment process to proceed i...
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