File #: O-12-24    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Public Hearing
File created: 4/17/2024 In control: City Council
On agenda: 7/8/2024 Final action:
Title: Maritime Industry Economic Development Fund - For the purpose of establishing a Maritime Industry Economic Development Fund is to promote, stabilize, and protect the maritime industry in the City of Annapolis; and generally dealing with maritime development in the City.
Attachments: 1. O-12-24 First Reader, 2. O-12-24 Legislative Summary, 3. O-12-24 Staff Report, 4. O-12-24 Fiscal Impact Note, 5. O-12-24 Planning Commission Findings, 6. O-12-24 Martime Advisory Board Report, 7. O-12-24 Planning Commission Recommendations for Martime Industry Legislation
Title
Maritime Industry Economic Development Fund - For the purpose of establishing a Maritime Industry Economic Development Fund is to promote, stabilize, and protect the maritime industry in the City of Annapolis; and generally dealing with maritime development in the City.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis

Ordinance 12-24

Introduced by: Mayor Buckley

Referred to:
Planning Commission
Finance Committee
Rules and City Government Committee
Maritime Advisory Board

AN ORDINANCE concerning

Maritime Industry Economic Development Fund

FOR the purpose of establishing a Maritime Industry Economic Development Fund to promote, stabilize, and protect the maritime industry in the City of Annapolis; and generally dealing with maritime development in the City.

BY repealing and reenacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2024 Edition
2.48.250
21.64.520
21.64.550

BY enacting with amendments the following portions of the Code of the City of Annapolis, 2024 Edition
6.30.030

WHEREAS, In 1989, the City Council adopted O-51-88, which authorized the Maritime Advisory Board along with a "Maritime Industry Economic Development Fund" which would be funded with "a portion of the slip tax and a City bonding capacity not to exceed 1.5 Million Dollars" with the money to be used for purchasing appraisals and surveys for 1) the acquisition of easements and development rights in the maritime districts, and 2) purchasing the development rights of non-maritime use in the maritime districts; and

WHEREAS, The Maritime Advisory Board was implemented in the City Code, and one of the board's duties includes providing "advice to the City concerning the administration of the maritime industry economic development fund as created by Ordinance O-51-88 Revised, adopted March 13, 1989"; and

WHEREAS, The Maritime Industry Economic Development Fund was never established; and

WHEREAS, The City Council has adopted legislation creating ...

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