To: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Council
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:
Recommendation
(1) Adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager to sign any documents necessary to grant property owner approval for City 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; and
(2) Adopt a Resolution of Intention to initiate proceedings to renew the Downtown Napa Property and Business Improvement District, and schedule a public hearing for Tuesday, July 21, 2020, at 6:30 P.M. in City Hall Council Chambers, 955 School Street, Napa, CA.
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DISCUSSION:
Overview
The Downtown Napa PBID, 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 Downtown Napa PBID and are funded by means of a special assessment on parcels within the Downtown Napa PBID boundary, currently totaling 277 individual assessed parcels (Attachment 2).
The Downtown Napa PBID has historically been renewed for five-year terms. As was done in 2010 and 2015, the Downtown Napa PBID 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 Council (Attachment 6) recommending that the assessments for the first year of the renewal (2021) be eliminated to allow time for property owners to ...
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