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URBAN SERVICES REPORT - UF FOUNDATION (B)
Ordinance No. 0-05-15
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 located generally south of Tax Parcel 06714-000-000, west of the City Limits, SW 15th Place, SW 17th Place, and Tax Parcels 06699-000-000 and 06700-000-000, north of Tax Parcel 06712-001-000, and east of Tax Parcels 06711-000-000, 06711-001-000, SW 37th Street, and the City Limits; the area is proposed for annexation by the City of Gainesville pursuant to Chapter 90-496, Special Acts, Laws of Florida, as amended, 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 Acts requires a municipality to prepare and adopt by nonemergency ordinance a report setting forth 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 trunk 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...
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