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URBAN SERVICES REPORT (HOME DEPOT) (B)
Ordinance No. 0-00-24
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA; ADOPTING AN URBAN SERVICES REPORT WHICH SETS FORTH THE PLANS TO PROVIDE URBAN SERVICES TO AN AREA COMMONLY KNOWN AS HOME DEPOT, GENERALLY BOUNDED ON THE NORTH BY A BODY OF WATER CONTIGUOUS TO THE GAINESVILLE CITY LIMITS AND I-75, ON THE EAST BY CIRCUIT CITY (TAX PARCEL 6654-7), ON THE WEST BY TOWER CENTER (TAX PARCEL 6654-3) AND ON THE SOUTH BY THE PROPERTY LINE OF HOME DEPOT LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 300 FEET NORTH OF UNIVERSITY AVENUE; THE AREA IS PROPOSED FOR ANNEXATION BY THE CITY OF GAINESVILLE PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 90-496, AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER 91-382 AND CHAPTER 93-347, SPECIAL ACTS, LAWS OF FLORIDA, KNOWN AS THE ALACHUA COUNTY BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT ACT; PROVIDING DIRECTIONS TO THE CITY MANAGER, THE CITY ATTORNEY AND THE CLERK OF THE COMMISSION; PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE.
recommendation
The City Commission adopt the proposed ordinance.
explanation
The Alachua County Boundary Adjustment Act requires a municipality to prepare and adopt by nonemergency ordinance, a report setting forth the plans to provide urban services to any reserve area to be annexed prior to commencing the annexation procedures under the Act.
The report must generally include the following information:
1) a map or maps of the City and adjacent territory showing the present and proposed municipal boundaries, the present major truck water mains and sewer interceptors and outfalls, the proposed extensions of such mains and outfalls, and the general land use pattern in the area to be annexed;
2) a statement indicating to what extent services to existing residents would need to be reduced within the next 5 years because of the annexation; to what extent taxes would need to be adjusted within the next 5 years to provide services to the areas to be annexed, including services required by the comprehensive plan of the municipality; and to what extent the area to be annexed meets the criteria of Section 9 of the Alachua County Boundary Adjustment Act;
3) a statement setting forth the plans of the city for extending to the area to be annexed each major municipal service performed within the municipality at the time of annexation, including:
a) plans for extending urban services on the date of annexation on substantially the same basis and in the same manner as such services are provided within the rest of the municipality prior to annexation.
b) plans for the extension of existing municipal water and sewer services into the area to be annexed so that, when such services are provided, property owners in the area to be annexed will be able to secure public water and sewer service according to the policies in effect for extending water and sewer lines to individual lots or subdivisions.
c) if extensions of major trunk water mains and sewer mains into the area to be annexed is necessary, set forth a proposed timetable for construction of such mains as soon as possible following the effective date of annexation.
d) set forth the method under which the City plans to finance extension of services in to the area to be annexed.
After adoption by the City Commission, a copy of the Report will be filed with the Alachua County Board of County Commissioners and the owner of the real property which is the subject of this ordinance.