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RESOLUTION N0. 8434-10 gy; Antonio, Bullock, Butler, Madigan, Powers, Smith, Summers. A RESOLUTION to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five (5) members elected to Council otherwise, it shall take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law, authorizing the execution and delivery of a Petition and Approval of the Petition, Articles of Incorporation, and Initial Plan of the City of Cleveland-First Suburbs Development Council Advanced Energy Special Improvement District. WHEREAS, Ohio. law was amended by Ohio House Bill 1 of the 128th General Assembly, effective October 15, 2009, to authorize the creation of Special Improvement Districts (District) under Chapter 1710 of the Ohio Revised Code to allow property owners to assess themselves to pay costs of developing and implementing plans for public improvements and public services that benefit the District, including as provided for in Ohio House Bill 1, special energy improvement projects which are defined in Ohio House Bill 1 to mean "any property, device, structure or equipment necessary for the acquisition, installation, equipping and improvement of any real or personal property used for the purpose of creating a solar photo voltaic project or a solar thermal energy project, whether such real or personal property is publicly or privately owned."; and WHEREAS, specifically, Chapter 1710 of the Ohio Revised Code provides that a District may be created by petition of the owners of real property within the proposed District. No District may include any property of federal or state government or a county, township or municipal corporation, unless the county, township or municipal corporation specifically requests in writing that the property be included in the District. Ohio House Bill 1 further provides that any District created may contain non-contiguous parcels of real property if all parcels of real property included in the District contain at least one special energy improvement project and 100% of the owners of the parcels of real properly in the District sign a petition requesting inclusion in the District. District boundaries, can include parcels of real property located in multiple municipal corporations or townships, so long as each of the municipal corporations or townships is contiguous to one another; and WHEREAS, .adoption of this legislation represents the first legislative step in the process of creating the City of Cleveland-First Suburbs Development Council Advanced Energy Special Improvement District (hereinafter referred to as the "Advanced Energy District', which will likely be the first Ohio House Bill 1 special improvement district created under the amendments to Chapter 1710 of the Revised Code and which may be the first or one of the first multi-jurisdictional urban-first ring suburban property assessed clean energy (PACE) programs in the United States; and 3733827x3