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A Resolution of the City Commission relating to the provision of street lighting services, facilities, and programs within the Cocoplum Phase I Street Lighting Special Taxing District; providing authority and definitions; confirming the initial assessment resolution; approving the Street Lighting Assessment Roll; providing for the imposition of the street lighting assessments; providing for collection of the assessments pursuant to the Uniform Assessment Collection Act; providing for the effect of this resolution; providing severability and an effective date.
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In accordance with the Dade County Home Rule Charter and Chapter 18 of the Code of Metropolitan Dade County, in 2020 Dade County (the "County") enacted Ordinance No. 20-114 to create the Coco Plum Phase I Street Lighting Special Taxing District to provide street lighting services, facilities, and programs within the District. Pursuant to Section 18-3.1 of the Code of Metropolitan Dade County, after approval by referendum and a joint resolution of the County and City of Coral Gables, governance and control of the District was transferred from the County to the City. Pursuant to the interlocal agreement between the County and the City outlining the transfer of governance, the City shall be responsible for "establishing assessment rates and collecting assessments for the Special Taxing District."
Pursuant to the Master Assessment Ordinance (No. 2015-09), the initial step for the City to establish assessment rates and provide for collection of assessments for the District was the adoption of an Initial Assessment Resolution, which was done on June 8, 2021 with the adoption of Resolution 2021-160. This Final Assessment Resolution confirms the assignment of Assessment Units and computation of the Assessments as established in the Initial Assessment Resolution.
When creating the District, the County applied a front footage method of apportionment, and the property owners within the District are cu...
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