Ordinance 62-22
To: Members of Dublin City Council
From: Megan D. O’Callaghan, City Manager
Date: November 1, 2022
Initiated By: Robert E. Ranc, Jr., Deputy City Manager/Chief Operating Officer
Paul A. Hammersmith, P.E., Director of Engineering/City Engineer
Brian D. Gable, P.E., Deputy Director of Engineering – Design & Construction
Chris Huber, P.E., Civil Engineer II
Philip K. Hartmann, Assistant Law Director
Re: Ordinance 62-22
Acquisition of Easement for the South High Street Utility Burial – Phase 1
Project (19-030-CIP)
SUMMARY
As part of the Downtown Historic District beautification efforts, the City will be relocating the
existing overhead utility lines along South High Street through the South High Street Utility Burial -
Phase 1 Project (the “Project”), by installing underground electric (AEP) and telecommunication
(Spectrum, AT&T, Breezeline, and Dublink) utilities to service the affected parcels. The Project
consists of two phases as requested by AEP. The Phase 1 Project area includes Franklin Street
south of West Bridge Street and the west side of South High Street between West Bridge Street
and Short Street. The Phase 2 area includes the east side of South High Street and Blacksmith
Lane between West Bridge Street and Short Street (see location map on page 4 of this memo). At
the completion of the Project, all overhead utility lines and poles along South High Street will be
removed between West Bridge Street and Short Street.
Presently, this Project is anticipated to be complete by the summer of 2023. The Phase 1
underground improvements are scheduled to be performed in advance of the Franklin Street
Improvements Project, which includes road reconstruction, sidewalks, curb ramps, and street trees
on Franklin Street between Sells Alley and Waterford Drive.
The City engaged MS Consultants, Inc. as the acquisition agent for the Project. In that role, MS
Consultants has been the point of contact, in addition to City staff, with the property owners on
the Project. Presently, the City has reached agreement with 15 of the 23 affected parcels, with five
(5) additional City of Dublin parcels requiring utility easements as well. The City has participated in
good faith discussions with all 23 property owners and hopes to arrive at mutually agreeable terms
with all property owners by the end of November 2022.
Acquisition
City staff worked to minimize the size of needed acquisitions to reduce impacts to individual
parcels as much as possible. A Good Faith Offer Letter, the appraisal report and associated
information were provided to all property owners in July 2022. This property acquisition is from a
residential property located within the Project area and consists of the following property interest
from the named property owner, as depicted in the exhibits attached:
Office of the City Manager
5555 Perimeter Drive • Dublin, OH 43017
Phone: 614.410.4400 Memo
Memo re. Ordinance 62-22 – Acquisition of Easement for the South High Street Utility Burial – Phase 1
Project (19-030-CIP)
November 1, 2022
Page 2 of 2
Property Owner(s) Parcel
Number
Property Interests
and Acreage
Auditor Parcel
ID Number(s)
Acquisition
Cost
Ord. 62-22
JOHN BEGLEY AND LORI
BEGLEY
(6199 Dublin Road)
28-U
0.015-acre
permanent/perpetual
public utility
easement
273-011777-00
$4,400
This Ordinance authorizes the City Manager to execute and accept on behalf of the City all necessary
conveyance documents to formally acquire the necessary property interest from the property owner.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends adoption of Ordinance 62-22 at the second reading/public hearing on November
14, 2022, as this ordinance authorizes the City Manager to execute all necessary conveyance and
contract documents to formally accept the necessary property interest described above.
Project Location Map
LOCATION MAP
PARCELS 26 - 28
SOUTH HIGH STREET UTILITY BURIAL - PHASE 1
CIP 19-030
DUBLIN, OHIO 43016
DATE: 09-13-22
SCALE 1" = 50'
0 10050WR/WR/W
W R/W R/WESMTESMTESMT LEGEND
PROPOSED
PERPETUAL PUBLIC
UTILITY EASEMENT
PROPOSED
TEMPORARY
CONSTRUCTION
EASEMENT
DUBLIN
26-U - .006 AC
DUBLIN
27-U - .042 AC
BEGLEY
28-U - .015 AC
28
U
27
U
26
U
PID: 273-000143
City of Dublin
225 S High Street
INST: 200604130069277
1.13 ACRES
PID: 273-011777
John Begley & Lori Begley
6199 Dublin Road
1.32 ACRES
PID: 273-000143
City of Dublin
225 S High Street
INST: 201003020024866
WATERFORD DRIVES HIGH STREET
EXHIBIT A
PARCEL 28-U
SOUTH HIGH STREET UTILITY BURIAL - PHASE 1
PERPETUAL EASEMENT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND
MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE UTILITIES, ABOVE AND BENEATH
THE GROUND AND WHERE NECESSARY, FOR THE CONSTRUCTION,
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF SERVICE CONNECTIONS TO ALL
ADJACENT LOTS AND LANDS.
Being situated in the State of Ohio, County of Franklin, City of Dublin, Virginia Military Survey No.
2452, and being part of lands conveyed to John Begley and Lori Begley by deed of record in
Instrument Number 201806290086099, as recorded in the Franklin County Recorder’s Office, and
being more particularly described as follows:
Commencing at the northeasterly corner of lands conveyed to City of Dublin by deed of record in
Instrument Number 200604130069277 and the intersection between the southerly right of way of
Waterford Drive (Width Varies), Plat Book 51, Page 10, and the westerly right of way of S. High
Street (73’ Wide);
Thence along the easterly line of said City tract and the westerly right of way of S. High Street, South
08° 04' 54" East for a distance of 184.13 feet to the grantor’s northeasterly corner and the
southeasterly corner of said City tract, said point also being the TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING;
Thence continuing along the grantor’s easterly line and the westerly right of way of S. High Street,
South 08° 04' 54" East for a distance of 65.87 feet to a point;
Thence leaving the westerly right of way of S. High Street, across the grantor’s property, South 81°
52' 40" West for a distance of 10.00 feet to a point;
Thence continuing across the grantor’s property, North 08° 04' 54" West for a distance of 65.88 feet
to a point on the grantor’s northerly line and the southerly line of said City tract;
Thence along the grantor’s northerly line and the southerly line of said City tract, North 81° 55' 06"
East for a distance of 10.00 feet to the True Point of Beginning, containing 0.015 acres, more or
less, all of which is within Auditor’s Parcel Number 273-011777.
The bearings are based on the westerly right of way of South High Street being South 08° 04' 54"
East as referenced to the Ohio State Plane Coordinate System, South Zone, NAD83 (2011 NSRS
Adjustment).
Subject to any easements, restrictions, covenants, ordinances or agreements of record.
__________________________________ May 26, 2022
Nicholas J. Del Valle Date
Professional Surveyor, Ohio License No. 8822
Korda/Nemeth Engineering, Inc.