Ordinance 71-22
To: Members of Dublin City Council
From: Megan D. O’Callaghan, P.E., City Manager
Date: November 29, 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 W. Huber, P.E., Civil Engineer II
Philip K. Hartmann, Assistant Law Director
Re: Ordinances 71-22 through 73-22 – Acquisition of Easements 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 (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 3 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 19 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 December 2022.
Acquisitions
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. The property acquisitions are from
both residential and commercial properties located within the Project area and consist of the
following property interests from each of the named property owners, as depicted in the exhibits
attached:
Office of the City Manager
5555 Perimeter Drive • Dublin, OH 43017-1090
Phone: 614.410.4400 • Fax: 614-410-4490 Memo
Ordinances 71-22 through 73-22 – Acquisition of Easements for the South High Street Utility Burial – Phase
1 Project (19-030-CIP)
November 29, 2022
Page 2 of 3
Property Owner(s) Parcel
Number
Property Interests
and Acreage
Auditor Parcel
ID Number(s)
Acquisition
Cost
Ord. 71-22
ARFAN MIDANI
(95 Franklin St.)
3-U 0.001-acre
permanent easement 273-000130-00 $1,200
Ord. 72-22
DUBLIN COMMUNITY CHURCH
(81 W. Bridge St.)
5-U 0.002-acre
permanent easement 273-000124-00 $2,600
Ord. 73-22
U CREW HOLDINGS LLC
(113-115 S. High St.)
16-U1 0.023-acre
permanent easement
273-000034-00 $54,230
16-U2 0.002-acre
permanent easement
These ordinances authorize the City Manager to execute and accept on behalf of the City all
necessary conveyance documents to formally acquire the necessary property interests from each
property owner.
Recommendation
Staff recommends adoption of Ordinances 71-22, 72-22, and 73-22 at the second reading/public
hearing on January 9, 2023, as these ordinances authorize the City Manager to execute all
necessary conveyance and contract documents to formally accept the necessary property interests
described above.
Ordinances 71-22 through 73-22 – Acquisition of Easements for the South High Street Utility Burial – Phase
1 Project (19-030-CIP)
November 29, 2022
Page 3 of 3
Project Location Map
EXHIBIT A
PARCEL 3-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 Lot 10 of the Civic Addition to the Town of Dublin, Plat Book 21,
Page 27, and being part of the lands conveyed to Arfan Midani by deed of record in Instrument
Number 201012010163117, as recorded in the Franklin County Recorder’s Office, and being
more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at the grantor’s southeasterly corner and the southeasterly corner of said Lot 10, said
point also being in the easterly right of way of Franklin Street (50 Wide);
Thence along the grantor’s southerly line, the southerly line of Lot 10 and the northerly line of
Lot 12, South 88° 51' 32" West for a distance of 8.06 feet to a point;
Thence leaving the northerly line of Lot 12, across the grantor’s property and Lot 10, North 08°
19' 28" West for a distance of 7.23 feet to a point;
Thence continuing across the grantor’s property and Lot 10, North 81° 40' 32" East for a
distance of 8.00 feet to a point on the easterly right of way of Franklin Street, the westerly line of
Lot 10 and the grantor’s westerly line;
Thence along the easterly line of Franklin Street, the grantor’s westerly line and the westerly line
of Lot 10, South 08° 19' 28" East for a distance of 8.24 feet to the True Point of Beginning,
containing 0.001 acres (62 Sq. Ft.), more or less, all of which is within Auditor’s Parcel Number
273-000130.
The bearings are based on the easterly right of way of Franklin Street being South 08° 19' 28"
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.
__________________________________ August 3, 2022
Daniel L. Quick Date
Professional Surveyor, Ohio License No. 7803
Korda/Nemeth Engineering, Inc.
LOCATION MAP
PARCELS 1 - 3
SOUTH HIGH STREET UTILITY BURIAL - PHASE 1
CIP 19-030
DUBLIN, OHIO 43016
DATE: 09-13-22
SCALE 1" = 50'
0 10050
R/W R/W R/W R/W
R/W R/WR/W
R/WR/WESMTESMTESMTESMTESMTESMT1
U
2
U
3
U
LEGEND
PROPOSED
PERPETUAL PUBLIC
UTILITY EASEMENT
PROPOSED
TEMPORARY
CONSTRUCTION
EASEMENT
PID: 273-000140
Hal Stuart Mueller
141 Franklin Street
INST:201507160096835
1.087 ACRES
MULLER
1-U - .001 AC
JOHNSON,
BALDWIN, HALL
2-U - .002 AC
MIDANI
3-U - .001 AC
PID: 270-000136
Amy Jo Hall
123 Franklin Street
INST: 198707220151310
.39 ACRES
PID: 270-00134 &
273-000132
Roy Carl Johnson, Danny
Lynn Johnson, Carla Grace
Baldwin, & Amy Jo Hall
105 Franklin Street
INST: 202206150089527
.37 ACRES &
.39 ACRES
PID: 273-000130
Arfan Midani
95 Franklin Street
INST: 201012010163117
.38 ACRES PID: 273-000128
Aaron J. Frank
85 Franklin Street
INST: 200403010043758
.39 ACRES
FRANKLIN STREET
Exhibit B