Title
Establishing a neighborhood improvement district in an area that generally includes both sides of Woodland Avenue from 5800 to 6746 and certain blocks of streets that intersect that portion of Woodland Avenue, to be known as the Woodland Avenue Business Improvement District, and for which Woodland Avenue Business Improvement District, Inc., 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. ยง18101 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, The purpose of this ordinance is to establish a neighborhood improvement district in Southwest Philadelphia, to be known as the Woodland Avenue Business Improvement District ("District"); and
WHEREAS, All procedures required by the Act for establishment of the District have been followed; in particular, more than forty-five days have elapsed from the last public hearing required by the Act and the Clerk of Council has not received objections filed by fifty-one percent (51%) of the affected property owners whose property valuation within the proposed boundaries of the District; now therefore,
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
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