Explanation
BACKGROUND: In 1999 the Capital South Community Urban Redevelopment Corporation, the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce and the Columbus Department of Trade and Development initiated an effort to work with downtown property owners to create a Special Improvement District (SID) in the core area of downtown. Property owners were surveyed and overwhelmingly were in support of creating a SID. In 2000 the SID was created for a five year term. Due to the success of the SID, it was reauthorized in 2006 and again in 2011. The current five year term concludes this summer of 2016. The property owners wish to authorize for another 5 year term. A one petition process has been initiated in which at least 60% of the property owners within the District signed that they are interested in reauthorizing the SID and they approve of the plan for improvements and services to be provided by the SID. This legislation is one of the first actions required by Chapter 1710 of the Ohio Revised Code to reauthorize.
A companion ordinance is being presented that approves the Petition and Articles of Incorporation of the Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District and the inclusion of properties owned by the City of Columbus in the district.
This legislation is for the approval of the Plan for Improvement and Services to be provided by the Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District of Columbus, Inc. pursuant to Ohio Revised Code Chapter 1710. This legislation is also for the approval of the properties of the municipal corporation in said plan for improvements and services.
FISCAL IMPACT: No funding is required for this legislation.
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To approve the plan for improvements and services to be provided by the Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District of Columbus, Inc.; and to approve the properties of the municipal corporation in said plan for improvements and services.
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Special Improvement District (SID) and to approve the plan for improvements and services and have filed the Petition with the Clerk of Columbus City Council along with the Articles of Incorporation for Special Improvement District, Inc. a non-profit corporation to be responsible for the operation of the SID; and
WHEREAS, the petition to reauthorize the Special Improvement District, Inc. is a companion piece of legislation that will go before Council at the same time as this piece of legislation; and
WHEREAS, this Council by the same ordinance is being asked to authorize that the properties of the municipal corporation abutting upon the streets described in the petition are included in the district; and
WHEREAS, this legislation is for the approval of the Plan for Improvements and Services to be provided by Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District of Columbus, Inc. pursuant to Ohio Revised Code Chapter 1710; and
WHEREAS, the Clerk of Columbus City Council finds the property owners per the signed petition and the City per this resolution represents at least sixty percent (60%) of the front footage of the property located in the Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District per Section 1710; and
WHEREAS, it is the determination of the City Council that the SID is a valuable tool for economic development and a means of continuing to improve the Downtown area; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Plan of Improvements and Services, including the estimate of cost of the improvements and services to be provided by the Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District of Columbus, Inc., now on file with the Clerk of Columbus City Council, are hereby approved.
SECTION 2. That the Mayor or his designee is hereby authorized to designate in writing that the properties of the municipal corporation abutting upon the streets described in the petition are included in the Plan of Improvements and Services as required by the Ohio Revised Code, Chapter 1710.
SECTION 3. That the Clerk of Columbus City Council is hereby directed to post a copy of this Ordinance in the Office of the Clerk of Columbus City Council as provided by the Ohio Revised Code, Chapter 1710.
SECTION 4. That this resolution shall take effect and be in force from and after the earliest period allowed by law.