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URBAN SERVICES REPORT - NW ANNEXATION REFERENDUM (B)
Ordinance No. 120042
An Ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, adopting an Urban Services Report which sets forth the plans to provide urban services to areas generally described as follows: Area 1 is generally located west of NW 55th Street, east of Interstate 75, North of Newberry Road and that portion of the North Florida Regional Doctor's Park & Hospital vicinity already within the City Limits and south of NW 23rd Avenue (above road rights-of-way inclusive); Area 2 is generally located west of NW 43rd Street (& that portion west of NW 43rd Street lying between NW 23rd & 29th Avenues east of NW 49th Terrace, including Buck Ridge Unit 2, already in the city limits), east of NW 63rd Street, north of NW 23rd Avenue and south of NW 39th Avenue, excluding tax parcels No. 06111-001-000 and 06111-003-001 located at the southwest corner of NW 39th Avenue and NW 43rd Street (already within the city limits), but including tax parcel No. 06064-000-000 located at the northwest corner of NW 39th Avenue and NW 43rd Street; and Area 3 is generally located west of NW 43rd Street, east of NW 51st Street (shown on the plat of Huntington Phase 6 as recorded in Plat book "S", Page 48 of the public records of Alachua County, Florida), north of the current city limits at tax parcel No. 06061-003-003 and Bellamy Forge Condominiums and south of the current city limits at the south line of the northeast quarter of Section 22, Township 9 South, Range 19 East and the county drainage easement & right of way lying immediately north of Rustlewood as recorded in Plat Book "K", page 52. These areas are proposed for annexation by the City of Gainesville pursuant to Chapter 90-496, as amended, 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
Prior to the annexation of area into a municipality, the Alachua County Boundary Adjustment Act (Act) requires the municipality to prepare and adopt by nonemergency ordinance a report setting forth plans to provide urban services to the reserve area to be annexed. Once the urban services report is adopted, an annexation ordinance must be considered by the municipal government. In the case of a non-voluntary annexation, the Act then requires a referendum on annexation of the areas be held at the next regularly scheduled election following the final adoption of the annexation ordinance.
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 five years because of the annexation; to what extent taxes would need to be adjusted within the next five 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 are 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 into the area to be annexed.
If adopted on first reading, this Ordinance shall be heard on second reading on July 19, 2012. After final adoption by the City Commission, a copy of this Report will be filed with the Alachua County Board of County Commissioners.