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CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
3750 UNIVERSITY AVE., STE. 250
RIVERSIDE, CA 92501
(951) 826-5567
ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 3.48.050 AND 3.48.070 OF THE RIVERSIDE
MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING THE ARLINGTON BUSINESS
IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.
The City Council of the City of Riverside does ordain as follows:
Section 1: Section 3.48.050 is amended to replace Exhibit “A” on file with the City Clerk with the Exhibit “A” attached hereto and incorporated herein.
Section 2: Section 3.48.070 of the Riverside Municipal Code entitled “System of assessments or charges imposed,” is amended in its entirety as follows:
“Section 3.48.070 System of assessments or charges imposed. “A charge system is hereby imposed whereby each business entity within the Parking and Business Improvement Area, known as the Arlington Business Improvement District, as hereby created, shall pay an amount equal to 90 percent annual increase, not to exceed pay a flat rate of Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00) per business., on the non-discounted current City of Riverside business tax fee as set forth in this Code, or as it may hereafter be amended. Such funds shall be assessed and collected concurrent with the payment of the required business tax payment as set forth in Title 5 of this Code.
Such funds are in addition to current business tax revenue and shall be kept in a separate account from current business tax revenues and shall be used for the purposes set forth in this chapter.” Section 3: The City Council has reviewed the matter and, based upon the facts and information contained in the staff reports, administrative record, and written and oral testimony, hereby finds that this ordinance is not subject to CEQA pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2), 15060(c)(3) and/or 15061(b)(3) of the State CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Chapter 3, in that it will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment nor have a significant impact on the environment.
Section 4: The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and cause publication once in a newspaper of general circulation in accordance with Section 414 of the Charter of the City of Riverside. This ordinance shall become effective on the 30th day after the date of its adoption.
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28 CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
3750 UNIVERSITY AVE., STE. 250
RIVERSIDE, CA 92501
(951) 826-5567
ADOPTED by the City Council this _________ day of _____________, 2025.
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PATRICIA LOCK DAWSON Mayor of the City of Riverside Attest: _____________________________ DONESIA GAUSE City Clerk of the City of Riverside
I, Donesia Gause, City Clerk of the City of Riverside, California, hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the City Council on the _______ day of _______________, 2025, by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Noes: Absent: Abstain: IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Riverside, California, this ________ day of ______________, 2025. _________________________________
DONESIA GAUSE City Clerk of the City of Riverside
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