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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...
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