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Callowhill NID defeated by popular opposition
CP just got word that opponents to the proposed Callowhill Neighborhood Improvement District successfully defeated the measure by collecting signatures of owners of a majority of the total property value that would be assessed an extra 7% fee for neighborhood services.
Callowhill NID defeated by popular opposition
CP just got word that opponents to the proposed Callowhill Neighborhood Improvement District successfully defeated the measure by collecting signatures of owners of a majority of the total property value that would be assessed an extra 7% fee for neighborhood services.
According to Philip Browndeis, who's helped collect signatures opposing the district, the City Council Chief Clerk will deliver notice to the Council President that the signatures opposing the NID represent nearly 60% of the total property value included. More than 50% was required to defeat the measure.
Tomorrow is the final session of City Council for the year — and the last period for outgoing Councilman Frank DiCicco, who sponsored the bill that would have created the NID, and which could have come up for a final vote tomorrow. It seems likely now it will simply not come up for a vote and therefore die.
The proposed improvement district has been controversial within the changing neighborhood for various reasons. One was its seeming-connection with a proposed park on the defunct Reading Railroad viaduct. While the bill's supporters had language referring to the viaduct removed and pledged that the money wouldn't go to the park in the NID's first five years, opponents correctly pointed out that the NID's origin had been directly tied to the viaduct park and that several of its main supporters were also proponents of the park.
But the viaduct park itself was perhaps a stand-in for a larger conflict: while supporters of the NID insisted they had done everything they could to reach out to fellow residents — including printing materials in Chinese — it was also true that, because the NID could be created legislatively and required no proof of local buy-in. Its implementation would have assessed a not-insignificant extra tax burden on an unknown number of people who did not wish to pay and felt that they were not represented by those who would have administered the money.
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