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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 10365., M. ORDINANCE NO. C~J _ AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS (1986), AS AMENDED, BY DESIGNATING A CERTAIN AREA ADJACENT TO ALLIANCE AIRPORT AS THE FORT WORTH TAX ABATEMENT REINVESTMENT ZONE NO. 2; PROVIDED THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR ENGROSSMENT AND ENROLLMENT; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Fort Worth, Texas {"City"), desires to promote the development or redevelopment of a certain contiguous geographic area within its jurisdiction by the creation of a reinvestment zone for commercial/industrial tax abatement, as authorized by the Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act, V.T.C.A., Tax Code, Chapter 312, as amended ,• and WHEREAS, the City Council has elected by City Resolution No. 1401 to become eligible to participate in tax abatement; and WHEREAS, the Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act further provides that property within a reinvestment zone may be eligible for, inter alia, commercial/industrial tax abatement, subject to the governing body of the municipality establishing by resolution the requirements for such eligibility and entering into a written tax abatement agreement with the owner of taxable real property that is located in the reinvestment zone; and WHEREAS, a public hearing in a regularly scheduled meeting before the City Council was held at 10:00 am. on the 22nd day of August, 1989, such date being at least seven (7) days after the date of publication of the notice of such public hearing as required by the Tax Code; and WHEREAS, notice of the public hearing was delivered to the presiding officer of the governing body of each affected taxing unit at least seven (7) days before the date of the public hearing; and WHEREAS, the City, at such hearing, invited all interested persons or their representatives to appear and speak for or against the creation of the proposed reinvestment zone, the boundaries of the proposed reinvestment zone, whether all or part of the territory described in this ordinance should be included in such proposed reinvestment zone, and the concept of tax abatement; -1- NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS: SECTION 1. That the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, {1986) as amended, is hereby amended by adding to Chapter 32, Taxation, a new Article III, entitled Tax Abatement Reinvestment Zones, which shall read as follows: ARTICLE III. TAX ABATEMENT REINVESTMENT ZONES DIVISION 2 TAX ABATEMENT REINVESTMENT ZONE NO. 2 Section 32-24. Findings and Determinations That the facts and recitations contained in the preamble of this ordinance are hereby found and declared to be true and correct. The City, after conducting such hearings and having heard such evidence and testimony, has made the following findings and determinations based on the testimony and evidence presented to it: (a) That a public hearing on the designation of Tax Abatement Reinvestment Zone No. 2 has been properly called, held and conducted and that notices of such hearings have been published as required by law and delivered to all taxing units overlapping the territory inside the proposed reinvestment zone; and (b) That the boundaries of the reinvestment zone shall be the boundaries as described in Exhibit "A" which is attached hereto and made a part hereof; and (c) That the creation of the reinvestment zone for commercial/industrial tax abatement, with boundaries as described in Exhibit "A", and the improvements sought are feasible and practical and, will be a benefit to the land included in the zone and to the City after the expiration of any Tax Abatement Agreement entered into under V.T.C.A., Tax Code, Section 312.204; and (d) That the reinvestment zone as described in Exhibit "A" meets the criteria for the creation of a reinvestment zone as set forth in V.T.C.A. Tax Code, Section 312,202, as amended, in that it is reasonably likely as a result of the designation -2- to contribute to the retention or expansion of primary employment or to attract major investment in the zone that would be a benefit to the property and that would contribute to the economic development of the City. Section 32-25. Designation of Zone. That pursuant to the Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act, V.T.C.A., Tax Code, Sections 312.001 through 312.209, the City hereby creates a reinvestment zone for commercial/industrial tax abatement encompassing the area described in Exhibit "A" attached hereto and such reinvestment zone is hereby designated and shall hereafter be designated as Tax Abatement Reinvestment Zone No. 2, City of Fort Worth, Texas. The designation of this zone expires 5 years after the effective date of this ordinance and may be renewed for periods not to exceed 5 years. Section 32.26. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect on August 22, 1989. SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of ordinances and of the Code of the City of Fort Worth, Texas (1986), as amended, except where the provisions of this ordinance are in direct conflict with the provisions of such ordinances and such Code, in which event conflicting provisions of such ordinances and such Code are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgement or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such unconstitutional ,phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section. -3- SECTION 4. The City Secretary of the City of Fort Worth is hereby directed to engross and enroll this ordinance by copying the caption and effective date in the minutes of the City Council and by filing the ordinance in the ordinance records of the City. sECTION s. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full farce and effect from and after its passage, and it is so ordained. APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: CITY ATTORNEY Q ~ `~ DATE : 0 ~O'~O` ADOPTED : G~C~(~~il ~ I EFFECTIVE : ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 6 -4- EXHIBIT "A" FORT WORTH TAX ABATEMENT RE'INIfESTMENT ZONE NO 2 BEING a tract of land out of the G. Overton Survey, Abstract No. 972, and the A. McDonald survey, Abstract No. 786, located in the City of Fort Worth, Denton County, Texas, and being part of a tract of land conveyed to Alliance Airport, Ltd. as recorded in Volume 24 5 1 , Page 4 1 2 of the Deed Records of Denton County, Texas, and being part of a tract of land conveyed to Hillwood/1358, Ltd., as recorded in Volume 2512, Page 460 of said deed records, and being part of a tract of land conveyed to Hillwood/1358, Ltd. as recorded in volume 2512, Page 471 of said deed recorded, and being more particularly described as follows: COMMENCING at the northerly northwest corner of said Alliance Airport, Ltd. tract, said corner being on the east right-of-way line of the A.T. & S.F. Railroad (100 feet wide); THENCE South 24 degrees 16 minutes 15 seconds West, along said east line, a distance of 228.70 feet to a point for a corner, said corner being the intersection of said east line with the south right-of-way line of proposed Eagle Parkway ( 120 feet wide); THENCE South 65 degrees 43 minutes 4.5 seconds East, departing said east line, and along said south line, a distance of 12.33 feet to the point of curvature of a circular curve to the left having a radius of 1210.00 feet; THENCE Easterly, continuing along said south line, and along said curve through a central angle of 19 degrees 39 minutes 07 seconds, an arc distance of 415.02 feet to an iron rod set for the POINT OF BEGINNING: THENCE Easterly, continuing along said south line, and along said curve through a central angle of 14 degrees 30 minutes 20 seconds, and whose back tangent bears south 85 degrees 22 minutes 53 seconds East, an arc distance of 30b.34 feet to an iron rod set for the point of tangency; THENCE North 80 degrees 06 minutes 47 seconds East, continuing along said south line, a distance of 3164.54 feet to an iron rod set for the point of curvature of a circular curve to the right having a radius of 1140.00 feet; THENCE Easterly, continuing along said south line, and along said curve through a central angle of 46 degrees 10 minutes 45 seconds, an arc distance of 918.81 feet to an iron rod set for the point of tangency; THENCE South 53 degrees 42 minutes 28 seconds East, continuing along said south line, a distance of 165.20 feet to an iron rod set for a corner; THENCE South 41 degrees 45 minutes 07 seconds East, continuing along said south line, a distance of 575.73 feet to an iron rod set for a corner, said corner being on the northerly right-of-way line of proposed T axiway 'H' extension (300 feet wide); THENCE South 29 degrees 57 minutes 34 seconds West, departing said south line, and along said northerly line, a distance of 1646.28 feet to an iron rod set for the point of curvature of a circular curve to the right having a radius of 1050.00 feet; '";FENCE Southwesterly, along said north line, and along said curve through a central angle of 50 degrees 09 minutes 14 seconds, an arc distance of 919.12 feet to an iron rod set for the point of tangency; THENCE South 80 r3egrees 06 minutes 47 seconds West, continuing alon~3 said north line, a distance of 3308.39 feet to an iron rod set for a corner, said corner being on the west line of said Alliance Airport, Ltd.. tract, said corner also being on the east right-of-way of a tract of land conveyed to the City of Fort Worth, known as the Alliance Airport, as recorded in Volume 9279, Page 388 of the Deed Records of Tarrant County, Texas, and Volume 2382, Page 209 of the Deed Records of Denton County, Texas; THENCE North 9 degrees 53 minutes 13 seconds West, departing said north line, along the common line between said City of .Fort Worth tract and said Alliance Airport, Ltd. tract, a distance of 1100.00 feet to an iron rod found for a corner; THENCE North 1 degree 21 minutes 22 seconds West, continuing along said common line, a distance of 364.73 feet to an iron rod found .for. a corner; THENCE North 43 degrees 37 minutes 08 seconds West, departing said common line, a distance of 225.00 feet to an iron rod found for a corner ; THENCE North 73 degrees 52 minutes 55 seconds West, a distance of 421 .87 feet to an iron rod found for a corner , said corner being on said common line between said City of Fort Worth tract and said Alliance Airport, Ltd. tract; THENCE North 9 degrees 53 minutes 73 seconds West, along said common line, a ristance of 103.14 feet to an iron rod set for a corner , said corner being on the easterly right-of-way line of a proposed street (60 feet wide); 'THENCE North 24 degrees 16 minutes 15 seconds East, departing said common line, and along said easterly line, a distance of 204.11 feet to an iron rod set for the point of curvature of a circular curve to the right having a radius of 430.00 feet; 1 x r ~ S ..i. THENC°£= Northeasterly, contin.u,ing along said easterly line, and " alorn3 aaid curve through a central~~ngle of 53 degrees 07 minutes 34 seconds, an arc distance of 398.71 feet to an iron rod set for L-he point of reverse curvature of a circular curve to the left having a radius of 490.00 feet; :'HENCE Northeasterly, continuing along said easterly line, and along Said curve through a central angle of 68 degrees 56 minutes 11 seconds, an arc distance of 589.55 feet to an iron rod set for a corner; THENCE North 51 degrees 16 minutes 34 seconds East, continuing along said easterly line, a distance of 21.69 feet to the POINT OF BEG INNING AND CONTAINING 12, 036, 168 square feet or 276.3124 acres of land more or less. ~~ ACCOU-+71NG.j ~ ~ ~ IRANSrORTAT10NfPUeIIC.WO~////®~ ~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~®~~~~~~~~~®~ MAtrpR AOMINISTRATtON i ~f CITY MANAGEF gAMAGEMEN7 TA%.; .1 DATE REFERENCE SUBJECT PUBLIC HEARING AND ORDINANCE PAGE NUMBER CE wcE~./y22/89 G-8176 DESIGNATING THE FORT WORTH TAX 1 of 1 ARATGMGAIT DG'TAI1lCCTR9CAIT 7rlC\IC Alit 7 RECOMMENDATION It is recommended that the City Council take the following action 1. Hold a public hearing concerning designation of the Fort Worth Tax Abatement Reinvestment Zone No. 2, and 2. Adopt the attached ordinance which designates the Fort Worth Tax Abatement Reinvestment Zone No. 2 pursuant to Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act, U.T.C.A., Tax Code, Sections 312.001 through 312.209, as amended. On P1arch 10, 1989, the City Council adopted a Resolution stating that the City of Fort Worth elected to become eligible to participate in tax abatement. On August 1, 1989, the Council established guidelines and criteria governing tax abatement agreements by the City for Qualified Commercial/Industrial Projects. Consideration of this issue as a part of today's agenda serves as a Public Hearing on the designation of a reinvestment zone as required by the Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act. Notice of this public hearing was published in the newspaper and delivered to the presiding officer of the governing body of each affected taxing unit at least 7 days prior to this meeting as required by State law. The proposed area meets the criteria for the designation of a reinvestment zone, as required by the Code, in that the area is reasonably likely, as a result of the designation, to contribute to the retention or expansion of primary employment or to attract major investment in the zone that would be a benefit to the property and that would contribute to the economic development of the City. In addition, the improvements sought in the zone are feasible and practical and would be a benefit to the land to be included in the zone and to the City after any tax abatement agreements which may be entered in accordance with state law have expired. The designation of a reinvestment zone expires after 5 years and may be renewed for periods not to exceed 5 years. The Code requires a city to designate a zon~~~r~~r~~t~Yenteri ng i nto tax abatement . CITY COUNCIL Attachment - Ordinance SUBMITTED FOR THE ••~~ •~+ •vvv CITY MANAGER'S DISPOSITION BY COUNCIL. PROCESSED BY OFFICE BY David Iv r APPROVED ORIGINATING D CRIBE) DEPARTMENT HEAD• DQUglas_Harman CITY SECRETARY FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION pied Ordinance No City Seat~to>n- of the CONTACT Dive ~ Ir'i of Fort Wortb. T~xaa DATE