Berkeley Municipal Code Ch. 7.94 Property and Business Improvement District

The purpose of this chapter is to enhance the ability of the City and businesses therein to establish business improvement districts pursuant to the Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994 (Streets & Highways Code Section 36600 et seq.) by: (1) reducing the percentage of property owners whose signatures are required to initiate formation of a Property Business Improvement District ("Property BID") from 50%, as authorized by the Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994, to 30%; and (2) extending the period for which a Property BID may exist from five years, as authorized by the Property and Business Improvement District Law of 1994, to ten years. (Ord. 6616-NS § 1, 2001)

The procedures established in this chapter shall be additional or alternative to any other procedure established by ordinance or state law, and are intended to supplement those procedures. (Ord. 6616-NS § 1, 2001)

Upon the written petition, signed and acknowledged, of the property owners in the proposed Property BID district who will pay more than thirty (30) percent of the assessments proposed to be levied, the City Council may initiate proceedings to form a Property BID by adopting a resolution expressing its intention to form a Property BID. (Ord. 6616-NS § 1, 2001)

A Property BID established pursuant to this chapter may have a duration of up to ten (10) years, if so specified in the resolution of intention. (Ord. 6616-NS § 1, 2001)