City of Philadelphia - File #: 030033

• File #: 030033
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 1/28/2003
• In control: Committee on Rules
• Title: Initiating action to establish a neighborhood improvement district in an area that generally includes both sides of Ridge Avenue from Main Street to 7220 Ridge Avenue and certain blocks of streets that intersect that portion of Ridge Avenue, to be known as the Roxborough District, and for which Roxborough Development Corporation, a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, would serve as the Neighborhood Improvement District Management Association; approving a preliminary plan for and report concerning the District; and authorizing and directing the Committee on Rules and the Clerk of Council to take all actions that are required by the Community and Economic Improvement Act prior to enactment of an ordinance that would formally establish the District.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Nutter
• Indexes: NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVMENT DISTRICT

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
3/6/2003	0	Committee on Rules	HEARING NOTICES SENT
3/6/2003	0	Committee on Rules	HEARING HELD
3/6/2003	0	Committee on Rules	RECESSED
1/28/2003	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED & REFERRED
1/28/2003	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
1/28/2003	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Initiating action to establish a neighborhood improvement district in an area that generally includes both sides of Ridge Avenue from Main Street to 7220 Ridge Avenue and certain blocks of streets that intersect that portion of Ridge Avenue, to be known as the Roxborough District, and for which Roxborough Development Corporation, a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, would serve as the Neighborhood Improvement District Management Association; approving a preliminary plan for and report concerning the District; and authorizing and directing the Committee on Rules and the Clerk of Council to take all actions that are required by the Community and Economic Improvement Act prior to enactment of an ordinance that would formally establish the District.
Body
WHEREAS, Council is authorized by the Community and Economic Improvement Act ("Act") (53 P.S. §18101 et. seq.) to establish by ordinance neighborhood improvement districts and to designate certain entities to administer programs and services within such districts in order "to promote and enhance more attractive and safer commercial, industrial, residential and mixed-use neighborhoods; economic growth; increased employment opportunities; and improved commercial, industrial, business districts and business climates;" and

WHEREAS, Before an ordinance establishing a neighborhood improvement district is enacted, the Act requires that a preliminary plan for the district be mailed to property owners within the district, and that a public hearing be held on the preliminary plan; and

WHEREAS, The purpose of this resolution is to initiate action to create a neighborhood improvement district in the Roxborough area, to be known as the "Roxborough District," and to ensure that all actions required by the Act to establish such a district are taken prior to enactment of an ordinance formally establishing the district; now, therefore,

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, THAT Council hereby i...