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  <br />  <br />  <br />  <br />Development District No. 1. <br /> <br />Section 1.4. Statement of Objectives. <br />The City has determined that the establishment of Development District No. 1 will provide the City <br />with the ability to achieve certain public purpose goals not otherwise obtainable in the foreseeable <br />future without City intervention in the normal development or redevelopment process. The public <br />purpose goals include: restoration and improvement of the tax base and tax revenue generating <br />capacity of Development District No. 1; increased employment opportunities; realization of <br />comprehensive planning goals; removal of blighted conditions; revitalization of the property within <br />Development District No. 1 to create an attractive, comfortable, convenient, and efficient area for <br />housing, industrial, commercial, and related uses. <br /> <br />The Council seeks to achieve the following Development Program objectives: <br /> <br />1. Promote and secure the prompt development or redevelopment of certain property in <br />Development District No. 1, which property is not now in productive use or in its highest <br />and best use, in a manner consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan and with a <br />minimum adverse impact on the environment, and thereby promote and secure the <br />development of other land in the City. <br /> <br />2. Promote and secure additional employment opportunities within Development District No. <br />1 and the City for residents of the City and the surrounding area, thereby improving living <br />standards, reducing unemployment and the loss of skilled and unskilled labor and other <br />human resources in the City. <br /> <br />3. Secure the increase of property subject to taxation by the City, the School District, the <br />County, and other taxing jurisdictions in order to better enable such entities to pay for <br />governmental services and programs required to be provided by them. <br /> <br />4. Provide for the financing and construction of public improvements in and adjacent to <br />Development District No. 1 necessary for the orderly and beneficial development or <br />redevelopment of Development District No. 1 and adjacent areas of the City. <br /> <br />5. Promote the concentration of new desirable residential, commercial, office, and other <br />appropriate development or redevelopment in Development District No. 1 so as to <br />maintain the area in a manner compatible with its accessibility and prominence in the City. <br /> <br />6. Encourage local business expansion, improvement, development or redevelopment <br />whenever possible. <br /> <br />7. Create a desirable and unique character within Development District No. 1 through quality <br />land use alternatives and design quality in new and remodeled buildings. <br /> <br />8. Encourage and provide maximum opportunity for private development or redevelopment <br />of existing areas and structures which are compatible with the Development Program. <br /> <br />9. Provide rental housing for low- and moderate-income individuals and families to increase <br />housing opportunities within the City, diversify the economic development in, and <br />encourage orderly and beneficial development of, Development District No. 1 <br /> <br />(AS MODIFIED DECEMBER 14, 2009) <br /> <br />10. Provide the impetus for the development and redevelopment of housing by private <br />enterprise consistent with the goals of the City.