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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to sign the petition relating to City-owned properties located within the boundaries of the proposed Uptown Property and Business Improvement District. (Districts 8,9)
DISCUSSION
The State of California Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994 (Section 33600 et seq. of the California Streets and Highways Code) and Article XIIID of the California Constitution (Proposition 218) enables the City to create a property-based assessment district allowing property owners to voluntarily assess themselves for various services beyond those provided by the City, including enhanced maintenance, public safety, beautification, marketing and economic development programs.
Property owners of record along Atlantic Avenue, between Market Street and Artesia Boulevard, and Artesia Boulevard, between Atlantic Avenue and Gundry Avenue, are circulating a petition to initiate special assessment proceedings to form a property and business improvement district, i.e., the Uptown Property and Business Improvement District (UPBID). Upon the submission of a written petition signed by the property or business owners in the proposed District who will pay more than 50 percent of the assessments proposed to be levied, the City Council may initiate proceedings to form the District by the adoption of a Resolution of Intention (ROI) to establish the District, and to set public hearings and issue ballots to each individual parcel owner. As a part of this effort, the City has been requested to sign the petition for the two parcels owned by the City of Long Beach located within the proposed UPBID boundaries.
The attached UPBID Management District Plan (MDP) details the boundaries of the UPBID, the amount and method of assessment for each parcel, and the improvements and activities for which the assessment funds will be used.
If established, the UPBID shall commence on January 1, 2014, for an initial 5-year period of January 1, 201...
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