Sec. 500.102. - Definitions.

The following terms, wherever used or referred to herein within this Chapter, have the following meanings: Authority means the Downtown Investment Authority or DIA as the community redevelopment agency for both of the Downtown community redevelopment areas as established in Chapter 55 (Economic Development), Part 1 (Downtown Investment Authority) consisting of the following: (a) Southside community redevelopment area; and (b) Northbank Downtown community redevelopment area. Agency Board or Board means the governing board of a Community Redevelopment Agency. Blighted area means either: (1) An area in which there are a substantial number of slum, deteriorated, or deteriorating structures and conditions that lead to economic distress or endanger life or property by fire or other causes or one or more of the following factors that substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth of the City and is a menace to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare in its present condition and use: (i) Predominance of defective or inadequate street layout; (ii) Faulty lot layout in relation to size, adequacy, accessibility, or usefulness; (iii) Unsanitary or unsafe conditions; (iv) Deterioration of site or improvements; (v) Inadequate and outdated building density patterns; (vi) Tax or special assessment delinquency exceeding the fair value of the land; (vii) Inadequate transportation and parking facilities; and (viii) Diversity of ownership or defective or unusual conditions of title which prevent the free alienability of land within the deteriorated or hazardous area; or (2) An area in which there exists faulty or inadequate street layout; inadequate parking facilities; or roadways, bridges, or public transportation facilities incapable of handling the volume of traffic flow into or through the area, either at present or following proposed construction. Bonds means, collectively, indebtedness of the City pursuant to financing agreements permitted hereunder and revenue bonds issued by the City hereunder. City means the City of Jacksonville, Florida, a municipal corporation and political subdivision of the State of Florida. CRA or Community Redevelopment Agency or Agency means and includes any agency created by Council to carry out community redevelopment under F.S. Ch. 163, Pt. III. This term includes the Downtown Investment Authority ("DIA"), the Renew Arlington Community Redevelopment Agency ("Renew Arlington CRA"), the Jacksonville International Airport Community Redevelopment Agency ("JIA CRA"), the KingSoutel Crossing Community Redevelopment Agency ("KingSoutel Crossing CRA") and such other agencies as may be created by the Council for community redevelopment purposes. City Council means the governing body of the City. Community redevelopment or redevelopment means undertakings, activities or projects of the City in a community redevelopment area for the elimination and prevention of the development or spread of slums and blight, or for the reduction or prevention of crime, or for residential and commercial development, and may include slum clearance and redevelopment in a community redevelopment area or rehabilitation or revitalization in a community redevelopment area, or any combination or part thereof, in accordance with a community redevelopment plan and may include the preparation of such a plan. Community redevelopment area means a slum area, blighted area, or an area in which there is a shortage of housing or an area that is deteriorating and economically distressed due to outdated existing structures, building density patterns, inadequate transportation and parking facilities, faulty lot layout or inadequate street layout, or a combination thereof which the City Council designates as a community redevelopment area. Community Redevelopment Plan means a plan approved by Council ordinance, as may be modified from time to time, to be implemented by a Community Redevelopment Agency for a community redevelopment area and that includes a description of various capital projects, programs and other activities designed to further the goal of revitalization under the plan, subject to available funds. Community policing innovation means a policing technique or strategy designed to reduce crime by reducing opportunities for, and increasing the perceived risks of engaging in, criminal activity through visible presence of police in the community, including, but not limited to, community mobilization, neighborhood block watch, citizen patrol, citizen contact patrol, foot patrol, neighborhood storefront police stations, field interrogation, or intensified motorized patrol. Cost, as applied to any project, shall embrace: (1) The cost of construction, renovation or rehabilitation; (2) The cost of acquisition and sales or other disposition of property, including rights in land and other property, both real and personal and improved and unimproved; (3) The cost of demolishing, removing, or relocating any buildings or structures on lands so acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to which such buildings or structures may be moved or relocated; (4) The cost of all machinery and equipment, financing charges, interest prior to and during construction, and, for a reasonable period after completion of construction, the cost of engineering and architectural surveys, plans, and specifications; and (5) The cost of consultant and legal services, other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of constructing such project, administrative and other expenses necessary or incident to the construction, renovation or rehabilitation of such project, and the financing of the construction, renovation or rehabilitation thereof, including reimbursement to the City, to any State or other governmental agency or any lessee of such project for such expenditures made with the approval of the City that would be costs of the project hereunder had they been made directly by the City. Debt service millage means any millage levied pursuant to Section 12, Art. VII of the State Constitution. Federal Government includes the United States or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States. Financing agreement means any lease, lease-purchase agreement, lease with an option to purchase, sale or installment sale agreement, whether title passes in whole or in part at any time prior to, at, or after completion of the project, loan agreement, or other agreement forming the basis for financing indebtedness under this ordinance, including any agreements, guarantees, or security instruments forming part of or related to providing assurance of payment of indebtedness under such financing agreement. Governing body or Council means the City Council of the City. Housing authority means the Jacksonville Housing Authority created by and established pursuant to F.S. Ch. 421. Increment revenue means the amount calculated pursuant to Section 500.112 of this Part. Mayor means the mayor of the City. Obligee means and includes any person, bondholder, agent or trustee for any bondholders, or lessor demising to the City property used in connection with community redevelopment, or any assignee of such lessor's interest or any part thereof, and the Federal Government when it is a party to any contract with the City. Person means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, or body politic and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other person acting in a similar representative capacity. Plan Authorized Expenditures shall have the meaning given in Section 106.340 , Ordinance Code. Plan Professional Services means professional services obtained by the CRA Board to support the Community Redevelopment Plan. Pledge means promising or obligating funds. Program means any grant, loan, or incentives established by one of the Agencies in accordance with the applicable Community Redevelopment Plan. Project means any capital project in furtherance of community redevelopment within a community redevelopment area pursuant to a community redevelopment plan, including the development of residential, office, commercial and light industrial development, and any rehabilitation, improvement, renovation or enlargement of, or any addition to, any buildings or structures, and including also the sites thereof and other rights in land therefor whether improved or reimproved, machinery, equipment, site preparation and landscaping, and all appurtenances and public facilities incidental thereto, such as utilities, roads, parks, playgrounds, or parking facilities for community redevelopment within a community redevelopment area pursuant to a community redevelopment plan. Public officer means any officer who is in charge of any department or branch of the City relating to health, fire, building regulations, or other activities concerning dwellings in the City. Real property means all lands, including improvements and fixtures thereon, and property of any nature appurtenant thereto or used in connection therewith and every estate, interest, right, and use, legal or equitable, therein, including but not limited to terms for years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage, or otherwise. Related activities means: (1) Planning for the preparation of a general neighborhood redevelopment plan or for the preparation or completion of a community-wide plan or program. (2) The development of housing, open spaces, shops, restaurants and cultural and entertainment facilities for residents of the area. (3) The development of community policing innovations. Slum area means an area in which there is a predominance of buildings or improvements, whether residential or nonresidential, which by reason of dilapidation, deterioration, age, or obsolescence; inadequate provision for ventilation, light, air, sanitation, or open spaces; high density of population and overcrowding; the existence of conditions which endanger life or property by fire or other causes; or any combination of such factors is conducive to ill health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency, or crime and is detrimental to the public health, safety, morals, or welfare. To the extent not defined in this Section, the definitions utilized in F.S. § 163.340 (Definitions), shall be applicable to all terms used in this Section. (Ord. 2000-1078-E, § 1.03; Ord. 2012-212-E, § 4; Ord. 2012-364-E, § 5; Ord. 2016-140-E , § 16; Ord. 2018-555-E , § 6)