11/20/2018 Resolutions 2018-354RESOLUTION 2018-354
A RESOLUTION OF 1NTENT TO ESTABLISH VEHICLE OFFSTREET PARKING
DISTRICT NO. 3 OF THE CITY OF GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA AND THE
BOUNDARIES THEREOF; INVITING PRIVATE OWNERSHIP AND OPERATION
OF OFFSTREET PARKING FACILITIES AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
THEREON; PROVIDING FOR NOTICE AND PUBLIC HEARING ON CREATION
OF SAID DISTRICT; TO PROVIDE NOTICES 1N RELATION THERETO; AND TO
PROVIDE NOTICE AND PUBLIC HEARING ON THE DISESTABLISHMENT OF
THE DOWNTOWN IMPROVEMENT AND PARKING DISTRICT CREATED BY
ORINANCE NO. 5854 CONCURRENT WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
PROPOSED VEHICLE OFFSTREET PARKING DISTRICT NO. 3.
WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority granted by the Offstreet Parking
District Act, R.R.S. Nebraska §§ 19-3301 through 19-3327, as amended, the Mayor and
Council of the City of Grand Island intend to establish Vehicle Offstreet Parking District
No. 3 of the City of Grand Island, Nebraska; and
WHEREAS, concurrent with the establishment of Vehicle Offstreet
Parking District No. 3, the Mayor and City Council intend to disestablish the currently
existing Downtown Improvement and Parking District created and established on June
30, 1975 by Ordinance No. 5854; and
WHEREAS, notice inviting private ownership and operation of parking
facilities within the proposed district and public hearing on proposals received is required
prior to establishment of a Vehicle Offstreet Parking District pursuant to the Offstreet
Parking District Act; and
WHEREAS, public hearings are required on the establishment of a
Vehicle Offstreet Parking District and on the disestablishment of a Business
Improvement and Parking District.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA, as follows:
1. The City of Grand Island intends to establish Vehicle Offstreet Parking District
No. 3 of the City of Grand Island, Nebraska (hereinafter referred to as the "District").
The boundaries of the proposed District, which boundaries include all the land in the
District which will be specially benefited thereby and which are currently included within
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the existing Downtown Improvement and Parking District created and established on
June 30, 1975 by Ordinance No. 5854, are as follows:
Beginning at the intersection of Sycamore Street and First Street; thence
westerly on First Street to Pine Street; thence southerly on Pine Street to
the southerly boundary of Courthouse Addition; thence westerly along the
southerly boundary of Courthouse Addition to Locust Street; thence
westerly on Division Street to Walnut Street; thence northerly on Walnut
Street to the alley between Division Street and First Street; thence
westerly on said alley to Cedar Street; thence northerly on Cedar Street to
the alley between Second Street and Third Street; thence westerly on said
alley to Elm Street; thence northerly on Elm Street to a point 40 feet north
of the southerly right-of-way line of the Union pacific Railroad; thence
easterly parallel to and 40 feet from said right-of-way line to Walnut
Street; thence northerly on Walnut Street to a point 100 feet north of the
northerly right-of-way of South Front Street; thence easterly parallel to
and 100 feet from said right-of-way line to Kimball Avenue extended;
thence southerly on Kimball Avenue extended and Kimball Avenue to the
alley between Third Street and Second Street; thence westerly on said
alley to Sycamore Street; thence southerly on Sycamore Street to the point
of beginning.
2. The purpose of the District is to provide for the maintenance, repair,
reconstruction and operation of the currently existing, City-owned, offstreet public
parking facilities located within the District excepting and excluding parking facilities
located upon Lots One (1), Two (2), and Three (3), Parking Ramp Subdivision, a replat
of Lots 5, 6, and 7, Block 79, Original Town of Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska.
3. Application is invited for private ownership and operation of offstreet parking
facilities within the District. A public hearing on any application received shall be held
on January 8, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 100 East First Street,
Grand Island, Nebraska. Applications must be physically received no later than 5:00
p.m. local time on January 8, 2019, at the office of the City Clerk, 100 East First Street,
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4. No funds are currently proposed to be expended for property acquisition or new
construction of offstreet parking facilities within the District.
5. A public hearing on establishment of the District and on disestablishment of the
Downtown Improvement and Parking District created and established on June 30, 1975
by Ordinance No. 5854 shall be held on January 8, 2019 at 7:00 p.m., in the City Council
Chambers, 100 East First Street, Grand Island, Nebraska. Not later than the hour set for
the hearing any owner or any person interested in any real estate within the proposed
district may severally or with other owners file with the city clerk written objections to
the thing proposed to be done, the extent of the proposed district, or both, and every
person so interested shall have a right to protest on any grounds and to object to his real
estate being included in the district, and at such hearing all objections and protests shall
be heard and passed upon by the mayor and city counciL
6. If the owners of the record title representing more than fifty percent of the taa�able
valuation of all of the taxable real property included in such proposed district or districts
and who were such owners at the time the notice of hearing on objections to the creation
of the district was first published file with the city clerk within twenty days of the first
publication of the notice written objections to the formation of the district, such district
shall not be formed and Downtown Improvement and Parking District created and
established by Ordinance No. 5854 shall not be disestablished. If objections are not filed
by owners of such fifty percent of the taxable valuation of all of the taxable real property
and if the mayor and city council find, after considering any other protests and objections
that may be filed and after considering the evidence presented at the hearing, that the
public health, welfare, convenience, or necessity requires the formation of such an
offstreet parking district and facilities, then such district shall be formed by ordinance and
the Mayor and Council shall consider and take action on the disestablishment of
Downtown Improvement and Parking District created and established by Ordinance No.
5854.
7. Revenues for the District are proposed to be raised by annual special assessments
against the real property located in the District to the extent of special benefit based upon
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total building area or such other means and method as permitted by law.
8. This Resolution shall be published once per week for four consecutive weeks in a
legal newspaper published within the City.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Grand Island, Nebraska, November 20, 2018
Attest:
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Aaron Schmid, City Clerk Pro Tem
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