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ORDINANCE NO. 19965 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A DOWNTOWN SERVICES DISTRICT OCCUPANCY FEE; ADDING SECTIONS 3.650, 3.655, 3.660, 3.665, 3.670, 3.675, AND 3.680 TO THE EUGENE CODE, 1971; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. The City Council of the City of Eugene finds that: A. The Eugene downtown area is a unique part of the City, combining a mix of services and businesses with such public space as the mall and the park blocks. This produces an area that generates a need for more concentrated management, marketing, maintenance and security related services than other parts of the City. These .needs result from the various occupancies in the buildings within the downtown area. It is therefore appropriate that these needed additional services be supported by a fee tied to the occupancy or use of buildings within the downtown area. B. .Extensive review has occurred to determine an equitable manner in which to recover these special and unique expenses. Property and business owners within the area have expressed support for imposition of a fee for occupied property not otherwise exempt from the fee. C. It is the intent in imposing such a fee that the revenues generated thereby will be expended for provision of management, marketing, maintenance and security related services within the downtown area only. It is further the Council's intent that such fees will be imposed for a three year period ending June 30, 1997 unless extended prior to that time by the Council. It is further the Council's intent that the revenues generated by this Ordinance will be replaced by the revenues generated by a city-wide tax on excess parking spaces as defined by the Council, at such time as the Council adopts such an alternative revenue source. THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Based on the above findings, which are adopted herein, the following caption and Sections 3.650, 3.655, 3.660, 3.665, 3.670, 3.675, and 3.680 are hereby added to the Eugene Code; 1971, to provide: Downtown Services District Occupancy Fee Ordinance - 1