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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 12842ORDINANCE N0. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS (1986), AS AMENDED, BY DESIGNATING CERTAIN PROPERTY IN DENTON COUNTY AS FORT WORTH TAX ABATEMENT REINVESTMENT ZONE N0. 26, PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE CUMULATIVE, PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; 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 N0. 2142 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 guidelines and criteria for such eligibility and entering into a written tax abatement agreement with the owner of taxable real and/or personal property that is located in the reinvestment zone; and WHEREAS, a public hearing in a regularly scheduled meeting before the City Council was opened at 10:00 a m. on the 28th day of January, 1997, 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 designation 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; 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, Article III, a new Division 25, entitled Tax Abatement Reinvestment Zone No. 26, which shall read as follows: DIVISION 25 TAX ABATEMENT REINVESTMENT ZONE NO. 26 Section 32-39.52 Findings and Determinations. 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 -2- findings and determinations based on the testimony and evidence presented to it (a) That a required hearing on the designation of Tax Abatement Reinvestment Zone No 26 has been properly called, held and conducted and that notices of such hearing 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 designation 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 designation 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 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 32-39 53 Designation of Zone. Pursuant to the Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act, V T C A., Tax Code, Sections 312.001 through 312.209, the City hereby designates a reinvestment zone for commercial/ industrial tax abatement encompassing the area in Exhibit "A", attached hereto, and such reinvestment zone shall hereafter be designated as Tax Abatement Reinvestment Zone No. 26, City of Fort Worth, Texas The designation of this zone expires five (5) years after the effective date of this division and may be renewed for periods not to exceed five (5) years -3- Section 32-39 54 Effective date. This division shall take effect on January 28, 1997 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 judgment 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. -4- SECTION 4 This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage, and it is so ordained. APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY: ~~~ Assistant City Att ney Date ~- a8' ~ 7 ADOPTED ~ ~ Q ~~ EFFECTIVE -5- ATTACHMENT "A" LEGAL DESCRIPTION 532 ACRE TRACT Being a tract of land situated in the P.K. Matthews Survey, Abstract No 865, and in the James Eads Survey, Abstract No 410, and in the Benjamin Matthews Survey, Abstract No 860, and in the A. McDonald Survey, Abstract No 786, all in Denton, County, Texas, and being a portion of those lands described in a Deed to Hillwood/1358, Ltd. As recorded in Volume 2512, Page 460, of the Deed Records of Denton County, Texas, and being a portion of that tract of land described in a Deed to Culbertson Enterprises, Inc. as recorded in Volume 1023, Page 934, of said Deed Records, said tract being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows. COMMENCING at the northwest corner of that tract of land described in a Deed to Peterson Farms, Inc., 10th tract, as recorded in Volume 559, Page 309 of said County Records, said point being in the north line of said Hillwood/1358, Ltd. Tract, and in the north line of said Benjamin Matthews Survey; THENCE S88° 49' 49" E, 351.21 feet; THENCE S89° 14' 44" E, 1799.52 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE S89° 14' 44" E, 2972.90 feet; THENCE SOS °35' 44" E, 142.75 feet; THENCE S86° 58' 13" E, 502.59 feet; THENCE S87° 11' S4" E, 683 72 feet; THENCE NO1 ° 48' 07" E, 217.30 feet; THENCE S89° 12' S4" E, 667 02 feet; THENCE N15° 59' S8" E, 456.39 feet; THENCE S68 ° 31' 04" E, 1045.20 feet to the Northwesterly right-of--way line of Interstate Highway 35W, Thence along said nght-of--way line the following courses THENCE S30° 52' 02" W, 1700 10 feet; THENCE S29° 45' S6" W, 1300.24 feet; THENCE N89 ° 36' S8" W, 118.32 feet; THENCE S00 ° 23' 02" W, 199 42 feet; THENCE S30 ° 54' 25" W, 2157 55 feet to the beginning of a curve to the right; THENCE with said curve to the nght, through a central angle of 03 ° 42' 10", having a radius of 2844 79 feet, the long chord of which beazs S41 ° 44' 37" W, 183 81 feet, an azc distance of 183 84 feet the beginning of a curve to the left; THENCE with said curve to the left, through a central angle of 12 ° 36' 29", having a radius of 2884.97 feet, the long chord of which bears S 37° 17' 25" W, 633.57 feet an arc distance of 634.85 feet; THENCE S30° 54' 25 " W, 181.57 feet to the northerly right-of--way line of Eagle Pazkway; Thence along said northerly nght-of--way line the following courses. THENCE S72° 40' 45" W, 121 80 feet; THENCE N65 ° 19' 13" W, 109.20 feet to the beginning of curve to the left; THENCE with said curve to the left, through a central angle of 15 ° 34' 36", having a radius of 1260 00 feet, the long chord of which beazs N 73° 06' 31" W 341 49 feet, an arc distance of 342.55 feet: THENCE N80° 53' 49" W, 68 78 feet; THENCE N00° 13' 33" W, 621.32 feet leaving said nght-of--way line along the east line of the Peterson Home tract; THENCE N89° 30' 33" W, 203 00 feet along the north line of said Peterson Home tract; THENCE S00° 13' 33" E, 572.08 feet along the west line of said Peterson Home tract to the northerly of said Eagle Parkway, the beginning of a curve to the right; Thence along said northerly right-of--way line the following courses. THENCE with said curve to the right, through a central angle of 10 ° 03' 06", having a radius of 1140 00 feet, the long chord of which beass N 65 ° 37' 13" W, 199 74 feet, an azc distance of 200 00 feet; THENCE N59° OS' 45" w, 348 OS feet; THENCE N59° 04' 19" W, 38 19 feet to the beginning of a curve to the right; THENCE with said curve to the nght, through a central angle of 32 ° 16' 40", having a radius of 1140 00 feet, the long chord of which beazs N 42 ° 55' S7" W, 633 76 feet, an arc distance of 642.22 feet; THENCE N26° 47' 37" W, 253.82 feet to the begmmng of a curve to the left; THENCE with said curve to the left, through a central angle of 26° 54' S1", having a radius of 1260 00 feet, the long chord of which bears N 40° 15' 02" W, 586 45 feet, an arc distance of 591.88 feet; THENCE N53 ° 42' 28" W, 1022.31 feet to the beginning of a curve to the left; THENCE with said curve to the left, through a central angle of 10 ° 55' S0", having a radius of 1260 00 feet, the long chord of which bears N 59° 10' 23" W, 240 O1 feet, an azc distance of 240.38 feet; THENCE N30° 00' S2" E, 113.23 feet leaving Eagle Parkway to the beginning of a curve to the left; THENCE with said curve to the left, through a central angle of 59° 41' OS", having a radius of 245 00 feet, the long chord of which bears N 00 ° 10' 20" E, 243.83 feet, an arc distance of 255.22 feet; THENCE N29 ° 40' 13" W, 193.59 feet to the beginning of a curve to the right; THENCE with said curve to the right, through a central angle of 15 ° 42' 27", having a radius of 205 00 feet, the long chord of which bears N 21 ° 48' S9" W, 56 02 feet, an azc distance of 56.20 feet; THENCE S80° 06' S6" W, 67 63 feet; THENCE N09 ° 53' 04" W, 1172.39 feet; THENCE N76 ° 57' O 1 " E, 457.22 feet; THENCE N51 ° 40' S9" E, 457.22 feet; THENCE N28 ° 15' 10" E, 546.24 feet; THENCE NOS ° 43' O1" W, 523 66 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING and containing 23,173,919 square feet or 532.00 acres of land more or less. City of Fort Worth Texas Mayor and Council Communication DATE REFERENCE NUMBER LOG NAME PAGE 01 /28/97 G-11742 022026 1 of 2 SUBJECT PUBLIC HEARING AND ORDINANCE DESIGNATING THE FORT WORTH REINVESTMENT ZONE NUMBER 26 RECOMMENDATION It is recommended that the City Council 1 Hold a public hearing concerning the designation of Fort Worth Tax Abatement Reinvestment Zone Number 26, and 2 Adopt the attached ordinance which designates Fort Worth Tax Abatement Reinvestment Zone Number 26 pursuant to the Texas Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act, Tax Code, Sections 312 001 through 312 209 as amended DISCUSSION The proposed zone is located in far north Fort Worth at Alliance Center The exact boundaries of the property are described in Exhibit A of the attached ordinance This site has been selected by Intel Corporation for the construction and operation of a computer chip fabrication facility Intel Corporation has submitted a tax abatement application for the facility that is to be operated at this site This public hearing is required by the Texas Property Redevelopment and Tax Abatement Act (the Act) Notice of this hearing was (1) delivered to the governing body of each affected taxing unit, and (2) published in the newspaper at least seven days prior to this meeting The Act requires the property receiving abatement to be located in a reinvestment or enterprise zone The proposed area meets the criteria for the designation of a reinvestment zone, 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 would be a benefit to the property and would contribute to the economic development of the city Further, the improvements sought in the zone are feasible, practicable and would be a benefit to the land to be included in the zone grid to the city after any tax abatement agreements which may be entered into (in accordance with state law) have expired ~ : ,,., The designation of a reinvestment zone expires after five years and may be renewed for periods ~.s , . not to exceed five years n r i . 'l Printed on Recycled Paper City of Fort Worth, Texas Mayor and Council Communication DATE 01 /28/97 REFERENCE NUMBER G-11742 LOG NAME 022026 PAGE 2 of 2 SUBJECT PUBLIC HEARING AND ORDINANCE DESIGNATING THE FORT WORTH REINVESTMENT ZONE NUMBER 26 FISCAL INFORMATION/CERTIFICATION The Director of Fiscal Services certifies that the adoption of this ordinance does not require the expenditure of City funds BT m Submitted for City Manager's FUND, ACCOUNT CENTER AMOUNT CITY SECRETARY Office by: (to) Mike Groomer 6140 Q ED Originating Department Head: APPROV CITY C4UNCtL Tom Higgins 6192 (from) S p~ 28 199 For Additional Information ~~ Contact: /~ , , L[~-~ ~ t ~~ ldrY Jay Chapa 8003 C-tY $~Crs 'iexas f Fort North. Printed on Recycled Paper Adopted Ordinance No, ~~~