5149650 Resolution 20-628, "H Street, N.E., Retail Priority Area Incentive Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014"

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

20-628

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

October 7, 2014         

 

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend the H Street, N.E., Retail Priority Area Incentive Act of 2010 to include other neighborhood-serving retail uses.

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “H Street, N.E., Retail Priority Area Incentive Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”.

 

            Sec. 2.  (a) There exists an immediate need to amend the H Street, N.E., Retail Priority Area Incentive Act of 2010 to include other neighborhood-serving retail uses.

            (b) The H Street, N.E., Retail Priority Area Incentive Emergency Amendment Act of 2014, passed on emergency basis on October 7, 2014 (Enrolled version of Bill 20-963), clarifies that eligible development projects do not include restaurants with annual alcohol sales of more than 20%.  These changes will increase the opportunity for additional retail development projects to apply. 

            (c) There exists an immediate need to pass these measures so that they are in effect before the next grant cycle, which concludes on October 29, 2014.

 

Sec. 3.  The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the H Street, N.E., Retail Priority Area Incentive Emergency Amendment Act of 2014 be adopted after a single reading.

 Sec  4.  The resolution shall take effect immediately.