Agmt20 Redwood City Improvement Association-CBID Operating Agreement

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Section 2 Proposed Downtown Redwood City CBID Boundaries The CBID generally follows the boundaries of the Downtown Specific Plan that was crafted via substantial community facilitation and input and is bounded roughly by Brewster, Veterans, Maple and Pennsylvania/EI Camino Real. The parcels selected to be included in the CBID form a unique retail, commercial, office and government business core that has long been recognized and identified by the Redwood City community as a pedestrian friendly retail and commercial central business district or "Downtown". Adjacent parcels not included within the CBID are generally residential neighborhoods or commercial strip automobile oriented corridors that serve the general public not engaged in the Downtown center area. Keeping the assessed parcels within the District clean, safe and attractive will increase pedestrian traffic and consumer activity and increase sales, business transactions, and employment and visitor satisfaction. There are two benefit zones in the proposed Downtown Redwood City CBID. These zones are shown on the District Map in Appendix 2 of this Report. In the summer of 2013, a group of property owners met and formed the Downtown Redwood City CBID Steering Committee. The original function of the Steering Committee was to review the historic boundaries of what was considered to be "Downtown Redwood City", which has evolved over the past few decades. The boundaries set by the Steering Committee coincided with not only the Downtown Redwood City Specific Plan mentioned above, but also with improvements that had been funded by the former Redwood City Redevelopment Agency. These improvements included special paving for sidewalks, pedestrian signage, district signage, landscaping, lighting, Courthouse Square, the new Downtown anchor project which included the movie theatres and parcels that had a common land use that represented the core of retail, office, commercial, County seat, City public seat, theatre/entertainment and related uses. Any blocks excluded from the CBID boundaries (one apartment building parcel between Maple and Walnut between Hilton, Stambaugh and the one block of EI Camino Real north of Broadway), were based upon the fact that the land uses of these blocks had very little relationship to the core of Downtown and it was believed by the Steering Committee that the special benefit services that would be provided would be of minimal value, at best, to these excluded parcels. The Cal Train station parking lot has also been excluded directly west of the Cal Train station due to the fact that the special benefit services are only provided west of the rail tracks along Broadway, and not to any other parcels on that side of the tracks. Cal Train currently provides maintenance and security services for this parking lot and the special benefit programs funded by the CBID will not benefit this parking lot. 11