[R.O. 2011 §2.56.010; Ord. No. 5247 §1, 1980]
It is the intention of the City Council to establish a University
City Loop special business district, as a mechanism whereby local
merchants and property owners can collectively enhance their environment
and promote retail trade activities, as provided by Chapter 71, Sections
71.790 through 71.808 inclusive, RSMo.
[R.O. 2011 §2.56.020; Ord. No. 5247 §2, 1980]
As used in this Chapter, the following terms shall have these
prescribed meanings:
The University City Loop Special Business District Advisory
Commission.
The City of University City, Missouri.
The City Council of the City of University City, Missouri.
The University City Loop special business district.
A body corporate and politic, and a political subdivision
of the State of Missouri, whose main purpose is the improvement of
the environment and the promotion of business in the area it encompasses,
as authorized by Chapter 71, Sections 71.790 through 71.808 inclusive,
RSMo.
[R.O. 2011 §2.56.030; Ord. No. 5247 §3, 1980]
A special business district, to be known as the University City
Loop special business district, is established for the area of University
City, Missouri, shown on the special business district map which accompanies,
and is declared to be a part of, the ordinance codified in this Chapter.
The boundaries of the district are broadly described as: the boundaries
of the retail commercial "RC" zone on both sides of Delmar between
Kingsland and the eastern municipal limits including commercial establishments
fronting on Kingsland, New Enright, Leland, Melville, Westgate and
Delmar. This district area includes properties described by the following
computer reference locator numbers as shown in the records of the
Director of Revenue for St. Louis County, Missouri:
|
Locator Number
|
Locator Number
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|---|---|
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18H 42 0067
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18H 41 0244
|
|
18H 42 0012
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18H 41 1740
|
|
18H 42 0078
|
18J 62 0879
|
|
18H 42 0089
|
18J 62 0880
|
|
18H 41 0145
|
18H 41 1432
|
|
18H 42 0023
|
18J 62 0781
|
|
18H 41 0189
|
18J 62 0231
|
|
18H 41 0035
|
18J 62 0220
|
|
18H 41 0046
|
18H 41 0288
|
|
18H 41 0068
|
18H 41 0343
|
|
18H 41 0080
|
18H 41 0376
|
|
18H 41 0255
|
18H 41 0398
|
|
18H 41 0079
|
18J 62 0846
|
|
18H 41 0020
|
18J 62 0297
|
|
18H 41 0091
|
18J 62 0329
|
|
18H 41 1713
|
18J 62 0363
|
|
18H 41 1564
|
18H 41 0266
|
[R.O. 2011 §2.56.040; Ord. No. 5247 §4, 1980]
A.
For the purpose of paying for all costs and expenses incurred in the operation of the district, and/or the provision of services and improvements authorized in Section 120.960:
1.
The businesses and individuals licensed by the City to do business
within the district, except vendors at the Market in the Loop, shall
be subject to an additional business license tax of fifty percent
(50%) over any other business license taxes levied by the City; and
2.
The real property in the district shall be subject to an additional
tax of eighty-five cents ($0.85) per one hundred dollar ($100.00)
assessed valuation; and
3.
The special assessment provided for by this Chapter shall be collected
by the City and held in a special account for dispersal to the district
with the approval by the City Council.
[R.O. 2011 §2.56.050; Ord. No. 5247 §5, 1980]
No real property within the district subject to partial tax abatement under the provisions of the Urban Redevelopment Ordinance No. 5085, and/or the Urban Redevelopment Corporations Law of Missouri, shall be exempt from the taxes levied in Section 120.910.
[R.O. 2011 §2.56.060; Ord. No. 5247 §6, 1980]
For the purposes of paying all costs and expenses to be incurred
in the acquisition, construction, improvement and/or expansion of
any of the facilities of the district, the district may incur indebtedness
and issue general obligation and/or revenue bonds, or notes for the
payment thereof, subject to the requirements for such instruments
found in the Revised Statutes of Missouri.
[R.O. 2011 §2.56.070; Ord. No. 5247 §7, 1980; Ord. No. 5700 §2,
1989; Ord. No. 7122, 3-10-2020; Ord.
No. 7185, 6-20-2022[1]]
A.
The
City Council shall have sole discretion as to how the revenues of
the district shall be used within the scope of this Chapter. To assist
in exercising this discretion, a University City Special Business
District Advisory Commission is created.
1.
Membership. The Advisory Commission shall consist of seven (7) members, chosen from and consisting of individuals who, at the time of appointment and during their entire term, own real property or a licensed business within the district that is subject to the additional tax in Section 120.910 and not in arrears. If the owner of real property or a licensed business within the district is a partnership or a business organization or other entity, including a limited partnership, corporation, estate or trust, the owner may designate, in writing, an individual as the owner's legally authorized representative, and such individual may be appointed to and be a member of the Advisory Commission, provided, at the time of appointment and during the entire term, the owner is subject to the additional tax in Section 120.910 and not in arrears. No member of the municipal government shall be a member of the Advisory Commission. No individual shall be considered for appointment to the Advisory Commission unless the individual has first submitted an application upon a form furnished by the City Clerk. The Mayor shall appoint a member of the Council to serve as liaison to the Advisory Commission consistent with Council rules and procedures.
2.
Term Of Office. The Mayor, with the approval of the City Council,
shall appoint the members of said Advisory Commission, so that each
of the seven (7) members shall hold office for three (3) years. The
terms of two (2) members shall expire January 1, 2023, the terms of
two (2) members shall expire January 1, 2024, and the terms of three
(3) members shall expire January 1, 2025. The Mayor shall, before
the first of January of each year, appoint replacement members for
those members whose terms shall have expired, and those replacement
members shall hold office for three (3) years, and until their successors
are appointed.
3.
Dismissals. The City Council may remove any member of the Advisory
Commission for misconduct or neglect of duty.
4.
Vacancies. Vacancies on the Advisory Commission, occasioned by removal,
resignation or otherwise, shall be reported to the City Council and
shall be filled in like manner as normal appointments within thirty
(30) days of the report to the Council. Members appointed to fill
vacancies shall assume the term of membership held by the vacated
member.
5.
Compensation. No member of the Advisory Commission shall receive
compensation for the member's duties.
6.
Conflict Of Interest. No person shall be employed by the district
who is related to a member of the Advisory Commission either by blood
or marriage, and no business shall be conducted with firms which are
owned in whole, or part, by a person related to a member of the Advisory
Commission either by blood or marriage.
[1]
Editor's Note: Ord. No. 7185 also stated that two advisory
commission terms expiring January 1, 2024 are hereby eliminated in
order to reduce the number of members from nine to seven.
[R.O. 2011 §2.56.080; Ord. No. 5247 §8, 1980]
A.
The
Advisory Commission has the responsibility of performing the primary
administrative functions of the district. These functions include,
but are not limited to, the following:
1.
Officers and committees. The original members of
the Advisory Commission shall meet within thirty (30) days of their
appointment and organize themselves by the election of one (1) of
their number as Chairperson, another as Vice Chairperson, and yet
another as Secretary-Treasurer, and by the election of such other
officers as they may deem necessary. Thereafter, new elections among
the members of the Advisory Commission for all officer positions shall
occur annually during the month of January. The Chairperson, Vice
Chairperson and Secretary-Treasurer of the Advisory Commission shall
function as an executive committee, and the members of the Advisory
Commission may create such other committees as they deem necessary.
2.
Bylaws. The Advisory Commission shall make and adopt
such bylaws, rules and regulations for its own guidance and for the
administration of the district as may be appropriate, but not inconsistent
with the ordinances of the City or the Statutes of the State of Missouri.
The Council may at any time, by resolution or motion, revoke, suspend
or amend any such bylaw, rule or regulation.
[Ord. No. 7122, 3-10-2020]
3.
Development plan. The Advisory Commission shall
be responsible for the development and maintenance of an overall plan
of action for the district. This plan will be construed to be the
major policy instrument of the district, and all expenditures and
activities are to be reviewed in light of the plan. The Advisory Commission
shall be required to hold at least one (1) meeting a year to which
all individuals owning property and/or operating a municipally-licensed
business within the boundaries of the district are actively encouraged
to attend with the expressed purpose of reviewing and updating the
plan.
4.
Budget. The Advisory Commission shall be required
to create and maintain a line-item budget for any existing revenue
and the anticipated revenue of the district for the year following
the date of the last-published budget. Said budget must be published
annually and submitted to the City Council for approval by the first
(1st) of July. Prior to the submittal of the budget to the City Council
the Advisory Commission shall be required to hold at least one (1)
meeting to which all individuals owning property and/or operating
a municipally-licensed business within the boundaries of the district
are actively encouraged to attend with the expressed purpose of reviewing
the proposed budget. The Advisory Commission may make recommendations
for the modification or elaboration of the budget to the City Council
at any time.
5.
Annual report. The Advisory Commission shall be
required to submit an annual report of its activities to the City
Council by the first (1st) of July of each year. This report should
inventory the projects undertaken by the district in the preceding
year and their status, minutes of all meetings held by the Advisory
Commission and any of its committees, relevant correspondence, a copy
of the latest plan adopted for the district, a financial report of
the district, a statement by the executive committee on the status
of the effectiveness of the district, and such other items as may
be deemed relevant by the Advisory Commission. Upon receipt of the
annual report the City Council shall place same on file with the City
Administrator and note that it is available for public inspection.
[R.O. 2011 §2.56.090; Ord. No. 5247 §9, 1980]
A.
The
funds of the district may be used for any of the following improvements
and activities with the approval of the City Council:
1.
To close existing streets or alleys or to open new streets and alleys
or to widen or narrow existing streets and alleys in whole or in part;
2.
To construct or install pedestrian or shopping malls, plazas, sidewalks
or moving sidewalks, parks, meeting and display facilities, convention
centers, arenas, bus stop shelters, lighting, benches or other seating
furniture, sculptures, telephone booths, traffic signs, fire hydrants,
kiosks, trash receptacles, marquees, awnings, canopies, walls and
barriers, paintings, murals, alleys, shelters, display cases, fountains,
restrooms, information booths, aquariums, aviaries, tunnels and ramps,
pedestrian and vehicular overpasses and underpasses, and each and
every other useful or necessary or desired improvement;
3.
To landscape and plant trees, bushes and shrubbery, flowers and each
and every other kind of decorative planting;
4.
To install and operate, or to lease, public music and news facilities;
5.
To purchase and operate buses, minibuses, mobile benches, and other
modes of transportation;
6.
To construct and operate child care facilities;
7.
To lease space within the district for sidewalk cafe tables and chairs;
8.
To construct lakes, dams and waterways of whatever size;
9.
To provide special police or cleaning facilities and personnel for
the protection and enjoyment of the property owners and the general
public using the facilities of such business district;
10.
To maintain, as hereinafter provided, all City-owned streets, alleys,
malls, bridges, ramps, tunnels, lawns, trees and decorative plantings
of each and every nature, and every structure or object of any nature
whatsoever constructed or operated by the said municipality;
11.
To grant permits for newsstands, sidewalk cafes, and each and every
other useful or necessary or desired private usage of public or private
property;
12.
To prohibit or restrict vehicular traffic on such streets within
the business district as the Governing Body may deem necessary and
to provide the means for access by emergency vehicles to or in such
areas;
13.
To lease, acquire, construct, reconstruct, extend, maintain or repair
parking lots or parking garages, both above and below ground, or other
facilities for the parking of vehicles, including the power to install
such facilities in public areas, whether such areas are owned in fee
or by easement;
14.
To promote business activity in the district by, but not limited
to, advertising, decoration of any public place in the area, promotion
of public events which are to take place on or in public places, furnishing
of music in any public place, and the general promotion of trade activities
in the district.
[R.O. 2011 §2.56.100; Ord. No. 5247 §10, 1980]
The City Council shall not decrease the level of municipally-funded
services in the district existing prior to the creation of the district,
or transfer the financial burden of providing the services to the
district, unless the services at the same time are decreased throughout
the City, nor shall the City Council discriminate in the provision
of new municipally-funded services between areas included in the district
and areas not so included.
