City of Philadelphia - File #: 130967

• File #: 130967
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 12/12/2013
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 12/12/2013
• Title: Initiating action to continue the Chestnut Hill Business Improvement District in the area that generally includes both sides of Germantown Avenue from 7640 to 8705, certain blocks of streets that intersect that portion of Germantown Avenue, and both sides of Bethlehem Pike from 10 to 105, to approve an extension to the boundaries of the District, and to continue Chestnut Hill Business Improvement District, Inc., a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, as the Neighborhood Improvement District Management Association of the District; approving a preliminary plan and report for 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 continue the District.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Bass
• Indexes: CHESTNUT HILL BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
12/12/2013	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar - Rules Suspended	Pass
12/12/2013	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar - Rules Suspended
12/12/2013	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED

Title
Initiating action to continue the Chestnut Hill Business Improvement District in the area that generally includes both sides of Germantown Avenue from 7640 to 8705, certain blocks of streets that intersect that portion of Germantown Avenue, and both sides of Bethlehem Pike from 10 to 105, to approve an extension to the boundaries of the District, and to continue Chestnut Hill Business Improvement District, Inc., a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, as the Neighborhood Improvement District Management Association of the District; approving a preliminary plan and report for 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 continue the District.

Body
WHEREAS, Bill No. 040008 (approved June 21, 2004) established a neighborhood improvement district (for five years) in the Chestnut Hill area, known as the Chestnut Hill Business Improvement District ("District"); designated Chestnut Hill Business Improvement District, Inc., a Pennsylvania nonprofit corporation, as the neighborhood improvement district management association for the District; and approved a final plan for improvements within the District; and

WHEREAS, Bill No. 080901 (approved June 17, 2009) continued the District for five additional years; and

WHEREAS, On June 17, 2014, the District will automatically terminate unless it is continued by ordinance; and

WHEREAS, Council is authorized by the Community and Economic Improvement Act ("Act") (53 P.S. §18101 et. seq.) to continue, by ordinance, neighborhood improvement districts beyond the date of termination by reenacting the municipal enabling ordinance creating the original neighborhood improvement district, following a review of the neighborhood improvement district and the neighborhood improvement district management association programs and services p...