Explanation
1. Background
The City of Columbus, Department of Public Service, received a request from Laura M. Comek on behalf of her client, Mulby Place Homes LLC, to transfer two portions of City right-of-way. The portions are approximately 21,690+/- square foot in total. The details are as follows:
No Name Alley - The first portion of the right-of-way area is an unnamed alley running southwest to northeast directionally. It is the first alley east of Cleveland Avenue; abuts with Myrtle Avenue at the north and a no name alley at the south at the Cleveland Avenue and Briarwood Avenue intersection. (0.110 Acre).
Linden Avenue - The second portion of the right-of-way area is one street east of the unnamed alley identified in item 1 and is running southwest to northeast directionally. It abuts with Myrtle Avenue at the north and a no name alley at the south at the Cleveland Avenue and Briarwood Avenue intersection. (0.357 Acre).
The intended use for the portions of right-of-way to be transferred is to combine them with parcels adjacent to the right-of-way to support a project being proposed by Mulby Place Homes LLC. This proposed project will include a small mixed-use of neighborhood-scale commercial structures along the Cleveland Avenue frontage and then affordable senior housing within the remainder of the site. The Department of Public Service has agreed to transfer the right-of-way as described and shown within attached legal description and exhibit, and extinguishes its need for this public right-of-way.
Per current practice, comments were solicited from interested parties, including City agencies, private utilities and the applicable area commission, before it was determined that, subject to the retention of a general utility easement for those utilities currently located within this right-of-way, the City will not be adversely affected by the transfer of this right-of-way. The Department of Public Service submitted a request to the City At...
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