Northcenter SSA #38 Renewal and Expansion Community Meetings

July 30, 2014 6:30pm and August 8, 2014 8am

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Welcome and Introductions City of Chicago SSA Presentation Northcenter SSA Presentation

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Review of proposed SSA boundaries, programs and services budget, needs survey, tax rate and tax rate cap Next Steps Q&A Session Closing

Agenda

• Welcome – Garrett FitzGerald, Executive Director, Northcenter Chamber of Commerce – Warren Silver, Chair, SSA #38 Commission – Alderman Pawar, 47 th Ward • Overview of Special Service Areas – Patrick Brutus, Dept. of Planning and Development • Introduction of Advisory Committee Members – Warren Silver, Chair, SSA #38 Commission • PLACE Consulting and Advisory Committee Members – Proposed Boundaries – Proposed Programs, Services and Budget – Proposed Tax Rate and Tax Cap • Questions and Adjournment PLACE Consulting, Inc.

Advisory Committee Members

• • • • Michael McCallum, Baird & Warner – 4037 N. Damen Avenue Daniel Scott, The UPS Store – 4044 N. Lincoln Avenue Sofia Zneimer, Zneimer & Zneimer, PC – 4141 N. Western Avenue Warren Silver, Silver Law Office- 1700 W. Irving Park Road

SSA#38 Commissioners

• • • Warren Silver (Chairman), Silver Law Office – 1700 W. Irving Park Road Thomas Fencl, The Davis Theater – 4614 N. Lincoln Avenue Jerome Jakubco, Jakubco, Richards & Jakubco, PC – 2224 W. Irving Park Road PLACE Consulting, Inc.

SSA #38 Northcenter Reconstitution

Let’s Build A Better Northcenter Together

SSA Mission Statement Special Service Area #38 was created in 2006 to provide enhanced cleaning, landscaping, snow removal and other services to Northcenter’s primary streets, to help beautify and promote Northcenter as a desirable place to live, work and play.

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Need for Northcenter’s SSA:

• No source of funding exists for cleaning, greening and promoting a neighborhood, except the SSA • Limited funds exist for promoting, marketing a neighborhood • SSA allows for the creation and implementation of visioning efforts • City and state funding sources are being cut or eliminated • Need to maintain ongoing, consistent and reliable funding for community initiatives, events and programs • SSAs provide a locally controlled way for our community to implement enhancements in the way we envision them • SSA funding ensures local tax dollars go to local services PLACE Consulting, Inc.

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SSA #38 Area Map

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SSA #38 Area Map

Proposed Changes to Boundaries

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Current SSA #38 Boundaries:

Lincoln Avenue between Addison St. and Montrose Avenue Irving Park Road between Ravenswood and Campbell Western Avenue between Belmont Avenue and Montrose Avenue • •

Proposed Additions:

Irving Park Road between Campbell and Chicago River Northcenter Town Square (Damen & Belle Plaine)

SSA #38 PIN Breakdown

Class

Tax Exempt Vacant Residential Mixed Use Not For Profit Commercial Multi Fam Incent

PINs % of Total

18 6 946 62 1% 0% 69% 5% 1 329 1 0% 24% 0%

Total 1,363 100% 2013 EAV

$0 $187,586 $60,905,071 $7,583,903 $5,979 $84,010,858 $890,446

$153,583,842 EAV Post TIF % of Total 0.253%

$0 $175,435 $32,208,765 $5,813,143 0% 0% 33% 6% $0 $445 $81,611 $14,729 $5,979 $57,488,860 $489,426 0% 60% 1% $15 $145,665 $1,240

Avg Pay

$0 $79 $163 $310 $15 $647 $2,256

$96,181,608 100% $243,705 $286 District

Damen Existing Missing Western

Grand Total 2013 EAV

$0 $146,270,183 $1,073,099 $6,240,560

$153,583,842 EAV Post TIF

$0 $92,297,185 $355,267 $3,476,547

$96,181,608 PINs

2 1293 11 57

1363

• $0.37 of every SSA tax dollar goes into the TIF

0.253%

$0 $233,863 $1,033 $8,809

$243,705

SSA #38 Projects

Since its creation, SSA #38 has supported the following services • • • • • • • • and improvements: Provided sidewalk trash removal and power washing Provided for snow removal on Northcenter sidewalks Installed 40 new flower planters along Northcenter’s main streets Planted and maintained 60 flower planters throughout Northcenter Provided landscaping for Northcenter’s obelisks Provided landscaping in Northcenter Town Square Collaborated with the Northcenter Chamber of Commerce in publishing the Community Guide highlighting Northcenter’s businesses Connected entrepreneurs to vacancies through the new Retail Northcenter initiative These services help attract new businesses, residents and visitors to Northcenter and enhance the experience of living and working in Northcenter.

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Program Categories

• • • • • • • Customer Attraction – Website, banners, special events, decorations, PR and advertising Public Way Aesthetics – Landscaping, litter and snow removal, public art, wayfinding signage Sustainability and Public Places – Transit enhancements, bike valet, energy/recycling programs Economic/Business Development – Site marketing, supplemental transit, studies and plans, SSA designation Safety Programs – Cameras, off-duty private security SSA Management – Administrative and programmatic expenses Personnel

Community Outreach

• • • • • • • • • Began surveying door-to-door AND online in July Still collecting responses –

please complete a survey tonight!

Held (holding) 2 community meetings Created SSA informational brochure and official community meeting letter Mailed materials to all property owners and taxpayers in SSA and expansion area Publicized in Newsletter and on Facebook Initiated individual emails and e-blasts about community meetings Posted information about SSA process on Northcenter website Reached out to Northcenter Neighborhood Association and 47th Ward to spread word about meetings PLACE Consulting, Inc.

Needs Assessment Survey

• • • • • • Survey in progress (32 surveys to date) 60% resident of Northcenter 30% located in existing SSA 25% property owners in existing SSA or expansion area 10% business owners/managers 75%

HAVE

heard of the SSA PLACE Consulting, Inc.

Assessment of Current Services

 Overall, respondents feel SSA services provided are  important

Most important

was Snow Removal followed by Litter Pickup, Tenant Attraction, and Streetscaping 

Most satisfied

with Streetscaping, Snow Removal, Litter  Pickup and Greening/Beautification Business and property owner priorities are: Snow Removal, Graffiti Removal, Greening/Beautification and Streetscaping PLACE Consulting, Inc.

Potential SSA Services

  Greatest interest in: Graffiti Removal, Public Space, and Tenant Attraction Also desire for: additional events/festivals that attract visitors, shoppers and tourists to the neighborhood AND focus on Town Square PLACE Consulting, Inc.

Proposed 2015 Budget

Customer Attraction Public Way Aesthetics Sustainability and Public Places Economic/Business Development Safety Programs SSA Management Personnel Subtotal Loss Collection Total 2015 Budget $1,500 $146,000 $0 $16,000 $0 $24,600 $44,000 $232,100 $11,605 $243,705

Draft 2015 Program Expenditures

Loss Collection; $11 605; 5% Customer Attraction; $1 500; 1% Personnel; $44 000; 18% SSA Management; $24 600; 10% Economic/Busin ess Development; $16 000; 6% Public Way Aesthetics; $146 000; 60%

Admin and Personnel Average Costs

What Does SSA #38 Northcenter Cost Me?

• • • • • Every property owner within the designated SSA pays an additional property tax levy that is used for the services on SSA streets. This assessment is collected by the County Treasurer when you pay your property tax bill. The money is then put into a bank account that only Northcenter Chamber of Commerce can use for Commissioner-approved SSA Services.

The amount you are assessed is based on the Equalized Assessed Value (EAV) of your property. The most you could ever pay in any given year is .333% of your EAV, which is the upper-most cap, but it will likely be much less, depending upon the cost of services that year.

The SSA ensures that a larger portion of your property tax dollars stay in the neighborhood and go to services that benefit you, not to a general fund downtown.

Property Class Summary

Class

Tax Exempt Vacant Residential Mixed Use Not For Profit Commercial Multi Fam Incent

PINs % of Total

18 6 946 62 1% 0% 69% 5% 1 329 1 0% 24% 0%

Total 1,363 100% 2013 EAV

$0 $187,586 $60,905,071 $7,583,903 $5,979 $84,010,858 $890,446

$153,583,843 EAV Post TIF % of Total 0.253%

$0 $175,435 $32,208,765 $5,813,143 0% 0% 33% 6% $0 $445 $81,611 $14,729 $5,979 $57,488,860 $489,426 0% 60% 1% $15 $145,665 $1,240

Avg Pay

$0 $79 $163 $310 $15 $647 $2,256

$96,181,608 100% $243,705 $286

• Commercial + Mixed Use + Not For Profit+ Small Mixed Use= 79.2% of • the total EAV.

Small Mixed Use refers to commercial/residential buildings with less than • 6 units and less than 20,000 square feet.

Residential includes 713 condos with an average cost of $121 per unit per year.

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Class

0 100 201 203 204 205 211 212 241 290 295 297 299 314 315 318 391 399 417 501 517 522 523 528 530 532 580 590 591 592 593 597 599 997

Average Costs by Property Type

Description

Exempt Vacant Land Residential garage 1 Story Residence, any age, 1,000 to 1,800 Ft² 1 Story Residence, any age, 1,801 Ft²+ 2 or more story residence, >62 years of age up to 2,200 Ft² Apartment building with 2 to 6 units, any age Mixed use com/res building with apt and com area totaling 6 units or less with a Ft² area less than 20k Ft² Vacant land under common ownership with adjacent residence Minor improvement Individually owned townhome or row house up to 62 years Special residential improvements Residential condominium 2 or 3 story non-fireproof building with corridor apt or California type apts, no corridors exterior entrance 2 or 3 story non-fireproof corridor apts or California type apartments, interior entrance Mixed use com/res building with apts and commercial area totaling 7 units or more with a Ft² of over 20k Apartment building over 3 stories, 7+ units Rental condominium Not for profit one story commercial building Garage used in conjunction with commercial improvements One story commercial building One story non-fireproof public garage Gasoline station Bank building Supermarket Bowling alley Industrial minor improvement Commercial minor improvement Commercial building over three stories 2 or 3 story building containing part retail and/or com Industrial building Special commercial structure Commercial condominium unit Special rental structure

2013 EAV

$0 $187,586 $26,911 $1,396,580 $102,389 $122,984 $5,305,308 $16,151,863 $22,788 $254,923 $2,076,035 $1,214,410 $34,230,879 $102,227 $224,620 $6,649,821 $11,404 $595,831 $5,979 $166,160 $20,214,816 $4,500,871 $1,809,113 $2,891,549 $20,016,763 $1,307,355 $92,820 $7,012,604 $3,228,488 $7,580,580 $5,170,113 $5,281,569 $4,738,057 $890,446

PIN

18 6 1 15 1 1 49 137 1 7 16 5 713 1 1 29 1 30 1 2 72 28 3 6 5 2 3 83 1 16 27 41 40 1

Avg Cost

$0 $79 $68 $236 $259 $312 $274 $299 $58 $92 $329 $615 $122 $259 $569 $581 $29 $50 $15 $211 $711 $407 $1,528 $1,221 $10,144 $1,656 $78 $214 $8,180 $1,200 $485 $326 $300 $2,256

Nearby SSAs

Albany Park Wicker Park / Bucktown Lincoln Square Lincoln Ave Old Town Clark St North Center Ravenswood Lakeview West Central Lakeview Lakeview East North Halsted Andersonville Edgewater Uptown

Tax Rate Comparisons (2014)

North Center SSA #38 Tax rate cap: 0.33% Tax rate for 2014 Budget: 0.164% 2015 Budget Levy: $243,705 EAV: $96,181,608

SSA #27 (Lakeview West) Tax rate cap: 0.25% Tax rate for 2014 Budget: 0.25% 2014 Budget Levy: $797,220 EAV: $ 302,811,729 SSA #21 (Lincoln Square) Tax rate cap: 0.25% Tax rate for 2014 Budget: 0.25% 2014 Budget Levy: $167,632 EAV: $55,271,519 SSA #33 (Wicker Park/Bucktown) Tax rate cap: 0.304% Tax rate for 2014 Budget: 0.3039% 2014 Budget Levy: $1,007,899 EAV: $332,607,259 SSA #22 (Andersonville) Tax rate cap: 0.50% Tax rate for 2014 Budget: 0.483% 2014 Budget Levy: $217,125 EAV: $44.935,041 SSA #31 (Ravenswood) Tax rate cap: 0.32% Tax rate for 2014 Budget: 0.143% 2014 Budget Levy: $482,845 EAV: $125,766,091 PLACE Consulting, Inc.

Tax Rate Averages

Impact of SSA Levy on Property Taxes

Other Taxing Bodies (6.832%) 7.085% North Center SSA Levy 0.253% Increase in property taxes with SSA is 3.7% PLACE Consulting, Inc.

Next Steps

• Conduct two community meetings • Meet with Advisory Committee to finalize application materials • Submit application to Dept. of Planning and Development August 15, 2014 • Prepare for public hearing, Fall, 2014 • Receive SSA renewal in January, 2015 for 15 years

Thank you for supporting your

Garrett FitzGerald

[email protected]

773-525-3609

www.northcenterchamber.com