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ORDINANCE NUMBER 20 - 32 AN ORDINANCE OF THE VILLAGE OF EAST DUNDEE, COOK AND KANE COUNTIES, ILLINOIS APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO THE BOUNDARIES OF THE VILLAGE OF EAST DUNDEE DOWNTOWN AND DUNDEE CROSSING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT AND APPROVING AN AMENDED BUSINESS DISTRICT PLAN IN RELATION THERETO, RECONFIRMING THE BLIGHTED AREA FINDING THEREIN, IMPOSING A RETAILERS’ OCCUPATION TAX AND SERVICE OCCUPATION TAX THEREIN AND AMENDING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED ORDINANCES RELATED THERETO WHEREAS, the Village of East Dundee (“Village”) is a home rule unit of local government pursuant to Section 6 of Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Illinois, and has the authority to exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs; and WHEREAS, subject to said Section, a home rule unit may exercise any power and perform any function pertaining to its government and affairs for the protection of the public health, safety, morals, and welfare; and WHEREAS, Section 11-74.3-1(1) of the Illinois Business District Development and Redevelopment Law, 65 ILCS 5/11-74.3-1, et seq. (“Law”) allows a municipality to determine that it is “essential to the economic and social welfare of the municipality that business districts be developed, redeveloped, improved, maintained, and revitalized, that jobs and opportunity for employment be created within the municipality, and that, if blighting conditions are present, blighting conditions be eradicated by assuring opportunities for development or redevelopment, encouraging private investment, and attracting sound and stable business and commercial growth;” and WHEREAS, following notice and a public hearing, on September 29, 2008, the Village President and Board of Trustees adopted Ordinance 08-57, entitled “An Ordinance Designating Village of East Dundee Illinois Route 72 and Illinois Route 25 Business District and Impose a Retailers’ Occupation Tax and Service Occupation Tax Therein,” which created a business district, which was expanded following a notice and a public hearing on March 7, 2011, in Ordinance 11-12, which was expanded following notice and a public hearing, and renamed as the “Downtown and Dundee Crossing Business Development District,” on March 18, 2013, in Ordinance 13-05, and which had an increase in the Business District Retailers’ Occupation Tax and Business District Service Occupation Tax imposed therein on March 30, 2015,Ordinance 15-16 (which collectively, and as otherwise amended from time to time, is the “Business District”), and each of which Ordinances approved, or amended, a business district plan for the Business District pursuant to the Law (which, as amended from time to time, is the “Business District Plan”) and which Ordinances imposed, or amended, a Business District Retailers’ Occupation Tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property at retail within the Business District at the current rate of three-quarters percent (0.75%) of the gross receipts of sales made in the course of said business, pursuant to and in accordance with 65 ILCS 5/11-74.3-6, and imposing a 448285_2 1 Business District Service Occupation Tax upon all persons engaged in the business of making sales of service within the Business District who, as an incident to making those sales of service, transfer tangible personal property within the Business District, either in the form of tangible personal property or real estate, as an incident to a sale of service, at the current rate of three-quarters percent (0.75%) of the selling price of tangible personal property so transferred, pursuant to and in accordance with 65 ILCS 5/11- 74.3-6; and WHEREAS, based upon a request of, and information supplied by, the owners of certain of the property legally described and depicted in EXHIBITS A-1 and A-2, respectively, attached hereto and made a part hereof (“Additional Property”), the Village President and Board of Trustees have determined that the Additional Property should be added to the boundaries of the Business District and that the Business District Plan should be amended to take into account the addition of the Additional Property to the boundaries of the Business District; and WHEREAS, on July 6, 2020, the Village President and Board of Trustees approved Ordinance 20-27, entitled “An Ordinance of the Village of East Dundee, Cook and Kane Counties, Illinois Proposing an Amendment to the Boundaries of the Village of East Dundee Downtown and Dundee Crossing Business Development District and the Approval of an Amended Business District Plan in Relation Thereto and the Scheduling of a Public Hearing in Connection Therewith,” setting forth the procedures for a public hearing (“Hearing”) on whether the boundaries of the Business District should be amended by adding the Additional Property to the Business District, so that the Business District boundaries would be as legally described and depicted as set forth in EXHIBITS B-1 and B-2, respectively, attached hereto and made a part hereof, and whether an amendment to the Business District Plan, attached hereto as EXHIBIT C and made a part hereof (“Plan Amendment”), should be approved; and WHEREAS, on August 26 and September 2, 2020, public notice of the Hearing was published in the Daily Herald, a newspaper of general circulation within the Village, as required by 65 ILCS 5/11-74.3-2(b), and a copy of the publisher’s certificate relative to the public notice of the Hearing is attached hereto as EXHIBIT D and made part hereof; and WHEREAS, on September 14, 2020, the Hearing was held; there were no alternate proposals or bids for any proposed conveyance, lease, mortgage or other disposition by the Village of land or rights in land owned by the Village and located within the boundaries of the Business District as proposed to be amended; Village staff and Village consultants presented the proposed amendment to the boundaries of the Business District, and presented the Plan Amendment in relation thereto; all interested persons were given an opportunity to be heard in relation to the proposed amendment to the boundaries of the Business District and the approval of the Plan Amendment in relation thereto; all persons desiring to submit written objections were given an opportunity to do so and to be heard on said objections; and the Village President and Board of Trustees heard and determined all protests and objections; all as required by 448285_2 2 65 ILCS 5/11-74.3-2(c); and WHEREAS, on September 14, 2020, the Hearing was finally adjourned; and WHEREAS, the Village President and Board of Trustees find that the Business District, as amended to add the Additional Property thereto (“Amended Business District”), on the whole has not been subject to growth and development through investment by private enterprises and would not reasonably be anticipated to be developed or redeveloped without the adoption of the Business District Plan, as amended by the Plan Amendment (together the “Amended Business District Plan”); and WHEREAS, the Village President and Board of Trustees find and determine that the Amended Business District Plan conforms to the comprehensive plan of the Village; and WHEREAS, the Village President and Board of Trustees find and determine that the Amended Business District remains a “blighted area” as defined in the Law, as set forth in the Amended Business District Plan; and WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the Village that the boundaries of the Business District be amended to add the Additional Property thereto, and that the Business District Plan be amended as set forth in the Plan Amendment, pursuant to the Law; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE VILLAGE PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF EAST DUNDEE, COOK AND KANE COUNTIES, ILLINOIS, AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: Incorporation. That the recitals above shall be and are hereby incorporated in this Section 1 as if restated herein. SECTION 2: Findings and Determinations. That the Village President and Board of Trustees find and determine as follows: A. That the Amended Business District has not been subject to growth and development through investment by private enterprises and would not reasonably be anticipated to be developed or redeveloped without the adoption of the Amended Business District Plan; B. That the Amended Business District Plan conforms to the comprehensive plan of the Village; and C. That the Amended Business District remains a “blighted area” as defined in the Law. 448285_2 3 SECTION 3: Amended Boundaries. That the boundaries of the Business District are hereby amended to add the Additional Property thereto, with said Amended Business District being legally described and depicted as set forth in EXHIBITS B-1 and B-2, respectively, attached hereto and made a part hereof. SECTION 4: Blighted Area Finding. That the Amended Business District remains a “blighted area” as defined in the Law. SECTION 5: Plan Amendment Approval. That the Plan Amendment, attached hereto as EXHIBIT C and made part hereof, is hereby approved, and the Business District Plan is hereby amended in accordance therewith. SECTION 6: Authority Under the Law. That, in promoting development and redevelopment within the Amended Business District, the Village President and Board of Trustees may exercise those powers as set forth in the Law. SECTION 7: Business District Sales Taxes. That the three-quarters percent (0.75%) Business District Retailers’ Occupation Tax and the three-quarters percent (0.75%) Business District Service Occupation Tax (together the “Business District Sales Taxes”), as imposed within the Business District pursuant to Village-adopted Ordinances, shall remain in full force and effect within the boundaries of the Amended Business District. The Business District Sales Taxes shall be collected and enforced by the Illinois Department of Revenue in the same manner as all retailers’ occupation taxes and service occupation taxes imposed in the Village.