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Resolution Approving Project Area and Project District Area and Confirming Appointment of Additional EDC Directors (Glacier Hills, Inc. Project)
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Whereas, There exists in the State of Michigan and the County of Washtenaw the need for projects to alleviate and prevent conditions of unemployment, to assist and retain local industrial and commercial enterprises in order to strengthen and revitalize the economy and to encourage the location and expansion of such enterprises to provide needed services and facilities to the State, to Washtenaw County and to the City of Ann Arbor;
Whereas, The Economic Development Corporations Act, Act No. 338 of the Michigan Public Acts of 1974, as amended (the "Act") provides a means for the encouragement of such projects in the City of Ann Arbor through The Economic Development Corporation of the City of Ann Arbor (the "EDC");
Whereas, The EDC has commenced proceedings under the Act for the benefit of such a project (viz., Glacier Hills, Inc. Project) and has designated to this City Council a Project Area and Project District Area as set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto for its approval; and
Whereas, The Mayor of the City of Ann Arbor has appointed two additional directors to the Board of Directors of the EDC in accordance with Section 4(2) of the Act and has requested this City Council to confirm such appointments as required by the Act in order to allow the EDC to proceed with the Project;
RESOLVED, That the Project Area as designated by the EDC to this City Council is hereby certified as approved;
RESOLVED, That it having been determined that the territory surrounding said designated Project Area will not be significantly affected by the Project because the surrounding territory is devoted to commercial and/or industrial uses, a Project District Area having the same description as and boundaries coterminous with the Project Area herein certified as approved be hereby established;
RESOLVED, That it having been determined that there are less than eighteen residents, real property owners, or representatives of establishments located within the Project District Area, a Project Citizens District Council shall not be formed pursuant to Section 20(b) of the Act;
RESOLVED, That the appointments of Dan Slee and John A. Rasmussen, who are representative of neighborhood residents and business interests likely to be affected by said Project, to the Board of Directors of The Economic Development Corporation of the City of Ann Arbor are hereby confirmed in accordance with Section 4(2) of the Act, and such additional Directors shall cease to serve when the Project is either abandoned or, if undertaken, is completed in accordance with the Project Plan therefore; and
RESOLVED, That the City Clerk be hereby directed to provide four certified copies of this resolution to the Secretary of the Board of the EDC.
Staff
Prepared by: Anissa R. Bowden, Council Coordinator
Reviewed by: Jacqueline Beaudry, City Clerk
Approved by: Roger Fraser, City Administrator