Explanation
This ordinance approves the acceptance of certain territory (AN22-005) by the city of Columbus. The Ohio Revised Code stipulates that to be effective, City acceptance must take place a minimum of 60 days from the receipt by the City Clerk of the approval notice from the county. If City Council does not accept the ordinance within 120 days of its first consideration, the annexation will be considered rejected. This petition was filed with Franklin County on April 6, 2022. City Council approved a service ordinance addressing the site on April 18, 2022. Franklin County approved the annexation on May 10, 2022 and the City Clerk received notice on May 17, 2022.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Provision of municipal services does represent cost to the City; however, the annexation of land also has the potential to create revenue to the City.
Title
To accept the application (AN22-005) of Norfolk Southern Railway Company for the annexation of certain territory containing 26.779± acres in Prairie Township.
Body
WHEREAS, a petition for the annexation of certain territory in Prairie Township was filed on behalf of Norfolk Southern Railway Company on April 6, 2022; and
WHEREAS, the petition was considered and approved by the Franklin County Board of Commissioners at a hearing on May 10, 2022; and
WHEREAS, on May 17, 2022, the City Clerk received from Franklin County a certified copy of the resolution addressing the petition; and
WHEREAS, sixty days have now elapsed since receipt of the resolution in accordance with the provisions of the Ohio Revised Code; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interest of the city of Columbus to accept the annexation of the territory addressed by the petition; now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
SECTION 1. That the annexation proposed by Norfolk Southern Railway Company in a petition filed with the Franklin County Board of Commissioners on April 6, 2022 and subsequently approved by the Board on May 10, 2022 is hereby accepted and said territory is hereby annexed to the city of Columbus. Said territory is described as follows:
Situated in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, Township of Prairie, Virginia Military Survey Number 2988 and being out of that tract of land as conveyed to Pennsylvania Lines LLC, of record in Instrument Number 200212180325195, now known as Norfolk Southern Railway Company, successor by merger, in Instrument Number 200710260186473 and being Franklin County Ohio Auditor's PID: 241-000038 and a 0.048 acre tract of land known as 1-WDV2, as conveyed to the City of Columbus, Ohio of record in Instrument Number 201809060120670, all deed references are on record at the Recorder's Office of Franklin County, Ohio and being more particularly described as follows:
Beginning, at the southwesterly corner of a Subdivision Entitled Trabue Woods Section 5, Part 2, of record in Plat Book 92, Page 56, a point on the southerly line of said Pennsylvania Lines LLC parcel and in the Existing City of Columbus Corporation Line of Ordinance Number 743-66, Case Number COC 224, Recorded in 5-11-66;
Thence, westerly with said southerly line of Pennsylvania Lines LLC parcel and said Corporation Line, a distance of approximately 409 feet to the southeasterly corner of a 9.202 acre tract of land as conveyed to BT-OH LLC, of record in Instrument Number 201803010028585;
Thence, with easterly line of said 9.202 acre tract of land the following courses:
Northerly a distance of approximately 61 feet to a point;
Northerly a distance of approximately 754 feet to a point;
Northerly a distance of approximately 130 feet to a point;
Northerly a distance of approximately 361 feet to a point;
Northerly a distance of approximately 193 feet to a point;
Northerly a distance of approximately 84 feet to a point;
Northerly a distance of approximately 92 feet to a point;
Northerly a distance of approximately 82 feet to a point;
Northerly a distance of approximately 119 feet to a point of curvature;
Northerly with a curve to the right with a radius of 371.82 and an arc length of approximately 60 feet to the southeast corner of said 0.048 acre tract;
Thence, westerly with the southerly line of said 0.048 acre tract a distance of approximately 87 feet to a point in the southerly right of way line of Trabue Road, of record in Plat Book 42, Page 88 and the Existing City of Columbus Corporation Line of Ordinance Number 1077-86, Case Number 45-85, Recorded in 7357 A-04;
Thence, northerly with the said existing City of Columbus Corporation Line a distance of approximately 196 feet to a point within the Right of Way of said Trabue Road and the Existing City of Columbus Corporation Line of Ordinance Number 1239-69, Case Number 12-69, Recorded in 148-277;
Thence, northeasterly through said Right of Way of Trabue Road and with said existing City of Columbus Corporation Line a distance of 329 feet to a point:
Thence, southeasterly through said Trabue Road Right of Way and with the westerly line of said 4.260 acre tract a distance of approximately 356 feet to a point;
Thence, with the westerly line of said 4.260 acre tract and said existing Corporation Line the following courses:
Northeasterly a distance of approximately 99 feet to a point;
Southeasterly a distance of approximately 42 feet to a point;
Southerly a distance of approximately 167 feet to a point;
Easterly a distance of approximately 222 feet to a point on the westerly line of a Plat entitled Bolingbrook Heights Subdivision, of record in Plat Book 37, Page 110;
Thence, southerly with said westerly line a distance of approximately 347 feet to a point at the southwesterly corner of said Bolingbrook Heights Subdivision, the northwest corner of a Plat Entitled Trabue Woods Section 6, of record in Plat Book 94, Page 41 and the northwest corner of existing City of Columbus Corporation Line of Ordinance Number 906- 72, Case Number 12-72, Recorded in 156-200;
Thence, southerly with the west line of said Trabue Woods Section 6 Subdivision, the west line of said Trabue Woods Section 5, Part 2 Subdivision, and with said Corporation Line a distance of approximately 1391 feet to The Point of Beginning and containing 26.779± acres of land more or less, being all out of Prairie Township;
The annexation description of the location of the property to be annexed and is not a boundary survey as defined in O.A.C. Chapter 4733.37. The above annexation contains a perimeter distance of 886 feet contiguous with the existing City of Columbus Corporation Line by Ordinance Number 1117-84, 1391 feet contiguous with the existing City of Columbus Corporation Line by Ordinance Number 906-72, 409 feet contiguous with the existing City of Columbus Corporation Line by Ordinance Number 743-66, 329 feet contiguous with the existing City of Columbus Corporation Line by Ordinance Number 1239-69 and 196 feet contiguous with the existing City of Columbus Corporation Line by Ordinance Number 1077-86 with an overall total perimeter of 5581 feet to be annexed, and 58% of the perimeter length is contiguous to the City of Columbus Corporation line
SECTION 2. That the City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to make three copies of this ordinance to each of which shall be attached a copy of the map accompanying the petition for annexation, a copy of the transcript of proceedings of the Board of County Commissioners relating thereto, and a certificate as to the correctness thereof, the City Clerk shall then forthwith deliver one copy to the County Auditor, one copy to the Board of Elections thereof and do such other things as may be required by law.
SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.