City of Newark - File #: 16-1196

• File #: 16-1196
• Version: 1
• Name: Amended Citywide Commercial Facade Improvement Program
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 7/14/2016
• In control: Economic and Housing Development
• On agenda: 8/23/2016
• Final action: 9/21/2016
• Title: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE II, CHAPTER 10, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, OF THE REVISED GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY (2000) AS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED BY EXPANDING THE SCOPE AND REACH OF THE CITYWIDE COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR REVITALIZATION FA?ADE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. Deferred 6PSF-i 090816
• Sponsors: Council of the Whole

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/21/2016	1	Municipal Council	Close on Public Hearing and Adopt	Pass
9/8/2016	1	Municipal Council	Maintained on Public Hearing and Deferred	Pass
8/23/2016	1	Municipal Council	Advance and Adopt on First Reading as 6F-	Pass

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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE II, CHAPTER 10, DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, OF THE REVISED GENERAL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY (2000) AS AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED BY EXPANDING THE SCOPE AND REACH OF THE CITYWIDE COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR REVITALIZATION FA?ADE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
Deferred 6PSF-i 090816
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WHEREAS, the City of Newark, Department of Economic and Housing Development (the "City") wishes to rehabilitate and improve the character of building fa?ades of the business districts and commercial corridors in the City of Newark; and

WHEREAS, the City was awarded a grant in the amount of Three Million Nine Hundred and Twenty-Three Thousand Five Hundred Dollars and Zero cents ($3,923,500.00) for the creation of a Citywide Commercial Corridor Revitalization Fa?ade Improvement Program (the "Fa?ade Improvement Program" or "Program");

WHEREAS, the City, by Ordinance 6PSF-j, adopted on November 22, 2010, created the "Fa?ade Improvement Program" to facilitate business and commercial fa?ade improvements and to appoint the Department of Economic and Housing Development, Office of the Urban Enterprise Zone ("UEZ Office") as administrator of the Program; and

WHEREAS, the Fa?ade Improvement Program, according to the five-year term set forth in the Sunset Clause of Section 2:10-4.20, expired on or about November 22, 2015; and

WHEREAS, the City, by Resolution 7R3-a(S), adopted on May 26, 2016, appointed Newark Community Economic Development Corporation ("Newark CEDC") as the City's administrator and manager of the City's UEZ Program, authorized CEDC to engage in redevelopment activities on behalf of the City, and undertake additional services as requested by the Mayor and/or Deputy Mayor/Director of the Department of Economic and Housing Development; and

WHEREAS, the Fa?ade Improvement Program was geographically limited to applicants within certain Downtown and Neighborhood Areas and did not expa...