HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 2025-03 - Designating Reinvestment Zone No.2025-01ORDINANCE NO. 2025- Q3
An Ordinance of the City Council of the City of Georgetown, Texas, designating
Reinvestment Zone No. 2025-01; providing eligibility of the zone for commercial -
industrial tax abatement; containing findings that the area qualifies to be designated
as a reinvestment zone and the improvements sought are feasible and practicable and
of benefit to the land and the City; providing a repealing clause; providing a
severability clause; and providing an effective date.
Whereas, the City Council of the City of Georgetown, Texas, has caused notice to be
published in a newspaper having general circulation in the City and has delivered such notice to the
presiding officer of the governing body of each taxing unit that includes in its boundaries real property
described herein that is to be included in the proposed reinvestment zone described herein; and
Whereas, the City Council of the City of Georgetown, Texas, has conducted a public hearing
on the designation of the area described herein as a reinvestment zone on January 14, 2025 at 6:00
p.m. in the Council Chambers at the City Hall at which interested parties were allowed to speak and
present evidence for or against the designation;
Now, therefore, be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Georgetown, Texas, that:
Section 1. The City Council of the City of Georgetown, Texas, finds that the area described
herein will, if designated as a reinvestment zone, be reasonably likely to contribute to the retention or
expansion of primary employment, or to attract major investment in the zone that will be of benefit
to the property and contribute to the economic development of the City. The City Council further
finds that the improvements sought are feasible and practicable and would be of benefit to the land to
be included in the zone and to the City after the expiration of a tax abatement agreement.
Section 2. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 312.201 of the Texas Tax Code, the property
described in Exhibit "A" attached hereto and made a part hereof for all purposes is hereby designated
as a reinvestment zone and for identification is assigned the name "Reinvestment Zone No. 2025-01"
or "Georgetown Logistics Building 1 Reinvestment Zone".
Section 3. The property within Reinvestment Zone No. 2025-01 is eligible for commercial -
industrial tax abatement effective on January 1, 2025.
Section 4. All provisions of the ordinances of the City of Georgetown, in conflict with the
provisions of this Ordinance be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and all other provisions of the
ordinances of the City of Georgetown not in conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance shall
remain in full force and effect.
Section 5. Should any sentence, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, or section of this
Ordinance be adjudged or held to be unconstitutional, illegal, or invalid, the same shall not affect
the validity of this Ordinance as a whole or a part or provision thereof other than the part thereof
decided to be unconstitutional, illegal, or invalid.
Ordinance Number: 2025-k3 Page 1 of 3
Description: Designating Reinvestment Zone No. 2025-01 Case File Number:
Date Approved: January 28, 2025 Exhibit A Attached
Section 6. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately from and after its passage and the
publication of the caption, as the law and charter in such casgspfovide.
APPROVED pn First Reading on the 14th
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THE CITY OF
Josh Schroeder
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO
N1) ADOPTED
ETO":
ye Masson, City Attorney
January 2025.
on the 28th day of January 2025.
ATTEST:
Robyn D smore
City Secretary
Ordinance Number: 2025- 03 Page 2 of 3
Description: Designating Reinvestment Zone No. 2025-01 Case File Number:
Date Approved: January 28, 2025 Exhibit A Attached
4889-1209-7001, v. 1
Exhibit "A"
Legal Description Reinvestment Zone No. 2025-03
a 32.969 acre tract generally located at 1800 Aviation Drive, Georgetown, Texas, and more
particularly described as Lot 1, Block A, Georgetown Logistics, an addition to the City of
Georgetown, Williamson County, Texas, according to the plat thereof recorded as Instrument No.
2022045096, Official Public Records, Williamson County, Texas.
Ordinance Number: 2025- Page 3 of 3
Description: Designating Reinvestment Zone No. 2025-01 Case File Number:
Date Approved: January 28, 2025 Exhibit A Attached
4889-1209-7001. v. 1