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The enacted ordinance continues the Philadelphia Hospitality Improvement Levy District through December 31, 2039, covering existing and future hotels in Philadelphia with 50 or more rooms. It continues Philadelphia Hospitality Improvement Levy District Corporation to manage the district and allows it to charge hotel property owners special assessment fees to fund programs promoting the hotel and tourism industry and to cover district administration.

Continuing the Philadelphia Hospitality Improvement Levy District (the "District"), a business improvement district encompassing certain existing and future hotel properties within the boundaries of the City of Philadelphia (the "City"), and continuing the Philadelphia Hospitality Improvement Levy District Corporation ("PHiL DC") to serve as the neighborhood improvement district management association for the District; approving a new plan for the District, including a list of proposed programs and services related to the development and promotion of the hotel and tourism industry in the City and County of Philadelphia and their estimated cost; providing for special assessment fees to be levied on eligible hotel property owners within the District to fund such programs and services; authorizing the Director of Commerce, on behalf of the City, to execute an agreement with PHiL DC relating to the District; and reauthorizing PHiL DC to assess eligible property owners within the District a...