Amending Various sections Chapter 2 Article 6 Tax abatement Procedures

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SUBSTITUTE BILL NO. 18-96 ORDINANCE NO. 666g-96 A ORDINANCE OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA,AMENDING VARIOUS SECTIONS WITHIN CHAPTER 2,ARTICLE 6, ENTITLED TAX ABATEMENT PROCEDURES OF THE SOUTH BEND MUNICIPAL CODE STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND INTENT The Indiana State Legislature has given to all communities the ability to enhance development through a myriad of economic revitalization programs. The City of South Bend believes that its current guidelines in this area should be upgraded in the effort to provide additional incentives for some of the residential areas of our City to be developed. The City believes that this ordinance meets the definition of "economic revitalization area" by the fact that there are factors which have prevented a normal development of property or use of property; and that there has been a lack of development and a cessation of growth. Through the joint efforts of the city administrative branch and the city legislative branch working together with concerned citizens,it has developed a proposed ordinance to assist in helping to combat the restrictions imposed by state law addressing annexation, which have also limited the growth and development of the City. The following ordinance enlarges the "RDA's" throughout the City. The areas designated constitute approximately 2 square miles of the 3.8 square miles allowable under the ten percent(10%)guideline permitted under Indiana Code§ 6-1.1-12.1-2(c). It is believed that the following Ordinance is in the best interest of the City and would help bring needed economic revitalization and development. oiu, tlitrefort, bt it orhintb t* Common tountil of the atitji of 6outb iii*ub, Inbiana,as follows: SECTION I. Chapter 2, Article 6, Section 2-76.1 (a) (20) of the South Bend Municipal Code shall read in its entirety as follows: (20)Residentially Distressed Areas(RDA) shall mean the areas located within the City of South Bend as designated on the attached maps and legal descriptions which are incorporated herein by reference, are maintained in the Office of the City Clerk and are available for public inspection during regular business hours. RDA's are described and labeled as follows: Exhibit No. Description Approximate Acreage A-13 Rum Village 776.1 Acres A-14 Far Northwest 173.9 Acres A-15 Lilac Trails 9.9 Acres A-16 Field Pointe 15.7 Acres A-17 Oakwood Villas 12.8 Acres A-18 Deer Run @ Topsfield 54.8 Acres A-19 Staffordshire Estates 22.0 Acres A-20 Southeast Estates 8.2 Acres A-21 Mayflower Subdivision 9.2 Acres A-22 Hermitage Estates 23.4 Acres A-23 Canterbury Woods 6.3 Acres A-24 Southeast-Wenger 7.8 Acres A-25 Southeast-Broadway 5.9 Acres A-26 Southeast-Lebanon 4.0 Acres A-27 Southeast-Dubail 21.6 Acres A-28 Northeast-St.Vincent 31.2 Acres A-29 Northeast-Bissell 4.1 Acres A-30 Sandpiper Cove 9.6 Acres A-31 Southfield 93.4 Acres