Initiating action to establish a neighborhood improvement district in an area that generally includes both sides of East Passyunk Avenue from the south side of Federal Street to the east side of South Broad Street, certain blocks of intersecting streets of that portion of East Passyunk Avenue, both sides of South Broad Street from the south side of McKean Street to the north side of Snyder Avenue, the west side of South Broad Street from the south side of Mifflin Street to the north side of McKean Street, to be known as the East Passyunk Avenue Business Improvement District ("District"), and for which the East Passyunk 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...

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 East Passyunk area, to be known as the “East Passyunk Avenue Business Improvement 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 action to establish a neighborhood improvement district in the East Passyunk Avenue area, with boundaries as set forth in Exhibit “A” attached to Bill No.

(introduced

), and to be known as the East Passyunk Avenue Business Improvement District (“District”). Council hereby approves as the preliminary plan for the District the plan attached as Exhibit “A” to Bill No.

, and Council adopts as the City’s report concerning the District the report included as part of that plan.

FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Committee on Rules is hereby authorized and directed to take all actions required by the Community and Economic Improvement Act (“Act”) prior to enactment of an ordinance formally establishing the District, including the holding of any and all public hearings required by the Act. The Clerk of Council shall arrange for all mailings and publication of all notices required by the Act, as directed by the Chair of the Committee on Rules.

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