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Initiating action to establish a neighborhood improvement district to be known as the University Housing Special Services District in an area that generally includes the area bounded by Girard Avenue, Ridge Avenue, 19th Street, York Street and Broad Street and certain blocks of streets that intersect that area, and for which Beech Interplex, Inc., a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, would serve as the Neighborhood Improvement District Management Association; 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.
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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, 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 North Central area of the City, to be known as the "University Housing Special Services 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 initiates a...
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