To: Honorable Chair and Commissioners
From: Vin Smith, Community Development Director
Prepared By: Stephanie Cajina, Senior Development Specialist
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Downtown Napa Property and Business Improvement District Renewal
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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing the Executive Director to grant property owner approval for Housing Authority owned property to renew the Downtown Napa Property and Business Improvement District for another five-year term from January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2025.
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DISCUSSION:
Overview
The Downtown Napa Property and Business Improvement District (DNPBID), formed in February 2005, is a benefit assessment district that funds marketing programs such as advertising and events, environmental enhancements such as circulation improvements, landscaping, artistic amenities, street furniture, lighting, signage, and services that create a benefit to the member properties. These benefits are concentrated within the distinct geographic boundaries of the DNPBID and are funded by means of a special assessment on parcels within the DNPBID boundary, currently totaling 277 individual assessed parcels (Attachment 2).
The DNPBID has historically been renewed for five-year terms. As was done in 2010 and 2015, the DNPBID prepared a proposed Management District Plan to extend the assessment for five more years (from 2021 through 2025). However, due to the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, on April 22, 2020 the Downtown Napa Association sent a letter to the City Council (Attachment 6) recommending that the assessments for the first year of the renewal (2021) be eliminated to allow time for property owners to financially recover from the pandemic. Consistent with this recommendation, the DNPBID submitted a revised Management District Plan (Attachment 3) to eliminate the assessment in 2021 so that there will not be an assessment in the first year of the extended term. As a result, programs...
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