2025-028 - Creating Tax Increment Financing Zone No. 2 for the purpose of financing a major thoroughfare “Forestbrook Boulevard” running from Southeast Loop 286 west southwest through the For

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f) That the proposed reinvestment zone does not contain more than 50 percent of the total appraised value of real propertytaxable by a county or school district. g) That the improvements in the reinvestment zone will significantly enhance the value of all taxable real property in the reinvestment zone. h) That the development or redevelopment of the property in the proposed reinvestment zone will not occur solely through private investment in the reasonable foreseeable future. SECTION 3. That the City hereby creates a reinvestment zone over the area described in Exhibit "A" attached hereto and depicted in the map attached hereto as Exhibit "B" and such reinvestment zone shall hereafter be identified as City of Paris Tax Increment Financing Reinvestment Zone Number Two,(the "Zone" or "Reinvestment Zone"). SECTION 4. That there is hereby established a board of directors for the Zone that shall consist of five members. The board of directors of City of Paris Tax Increment Financing Reinvestment Zone Number Two shall be appointed as follows: a) Five members shall be appointed by the City Council of the City of Paris. The initial board of directors shall be appointed by resolution within sixty (60) days of the passage of this ordinance or within a reasonable time thereafter. All members appointed to the board shall meet the eligibility requirements set forth in the Act. At the time of passage of this ordinance, the governing bodies of other taxing units that levy taxes on real property in Tax Increment Financing Reinvestment Zone Number Two have chosen not to pay any of their taxes into the Tax Increment Fund and have waived their right to appoint board members. b) The terms of the board members shall be two-year terms, two of whom will be employees of the City. The City Council shall designate a member of the board to serve as chairman and other officers as it sees fit. c) The• board of directors shall make recommendations to the City Council concerning the administration of the Zone. It shall prepare and adopt a project plan and reinvestment zone financing plan for the Zone and must submit such plans to the City Council for its approval. The Board of directors shall possess all powers necessary to prepare, implement and monitor such project plan and financing plan for the reinvestment zone as the City Council considers advisable, including the submission of an annual report on the status of the Zone. SECTION 5. That the Zone shall take effect on January 1, 2025 and that the termination of the Zone shall occur on December 31, 2054, or at an earlier time designated by subsequent ordinance of the City Council in the event the City determines that the Zone should be terminated due to insufficient private investment (including but not limited to the inability to reach a development and reimbursement agreement with the private -developer of the Forestbrook Estates housing development within 60 days of the date of