The purposes of this chapter are to:
A. Promote economic growth and employment within the
central business district and nearby commercial areas.
B. Foster and encourage self-help programs to enhance
the local business climate.
C. Create a self-financing special improvement district
to assist in meeting local needs, goals and objectives.
D. Designate a district management corporation to assist
in managing self-help programs and in carrying out local needs, goals
and objectives.
The Mayor and Council hereby make the following
findings:
A. East and West Pleasant Avenue and commercial areas
along Maywood Avenue have become the center of commercial activity
within Maywood and are the beast of the Central Business District.
B. Revitalization of Maywood's Central Business District
is a primary goal of Maywood's Master Plan.
C. To carry out said goal, the Master Plan recommended
and encouraged economic growth for a continuing source of employment,
strengthening of the tax base through appropriate utilization of local
resources, adequate off-street parking, promotion of a desirable visual
environment, improving the overall image and appearance of the business
district and the maintenance of the vitality of the Central Business
District.
D. The Central Business District along Pleasant Avenue
and Maywood Avenue has certain special needs requiring additional
municipal services not otherwise provided throughout the municipality
such as additional sanitation services, additional litter control
measures, more frequent street cleaning and additional security measures.
E. In order to meet these special needs and create a
viable, functional and attractive Central Business District, cooperative
public and private participation in redevelopment, rehabilitation
and beautification efforts is required.
F. The establishment and designation of a special improvement district will assist in meeting the aforesaid needs, goals and objectives and will be of a benefit to the areas of the Borough so designated as more fully set forth in §
201-3 hereof.
G. The designation of a district management corporation, as set forth in §
201-4 hereof, will provide administrative and other services to benefit the businesses, employees, residents and consumers in the special improvement district.
H. The imposition and collection of special assessments
on properties within the special improvement district and/or annual
licenses for businesses operating within the special improvement district
will help defray the cost of providing improvements specially benefitting
the district and needed additional municipal services not provided
elsewhere throughout the Borough and will enable the district management
corporation to carry out its functions and duties.
I. The creation of a special improvement district arid
the designation of a district management corporation will promote
economic growth and employment, foster and encourage self-help programs,
enhance the local business climate and otherwise be in the best interests
of the Borough of Maywood and the public.
There is hereby established and designated a
special improvement district within the Borough of Maywood as more
particularly described in Schedule A annexed hereto and made a part
hereof.
The Mayor and Council may, by separate ordinance
or amendment hereto, provide that the costs of improvements and facilities
within the special improvement district may be financed and specially
assessed or taxed to the properties specially benefitted thereby within
the special improvement district.
Persons operating outdoor restaurants, conducting
sidewalk sales or engaging in hawking, peddling or vending of any
foods, beverages, confections, goods, ware, merchandise or commodities
of any nature or description on the streets, sidewalks, parks and
public rights-of-way within the Borough of Maywood's special improvement
district shall conform to rules and regulations formally adopted by
the Council, in accordance with the standards enunciated in N.J.S.A.
40:56-65 et seq.
[Added 9-10-2019 by Ord.
No. 17-19]
A. The owner
of any vacant commercial structure that contains a storefront, display
window, and/or any area intended to exhibit or display merchandise
or conduct advertising, shall keep the property internally illuminated
during the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. so as not to appear vacant
and shall place some visual medium, such as art work, or some form
of decorative display, which will not, by its appearance, create a
blighting effect on the immediate neighborhood. Such art/display shall
not be of a nature that would be offensive to the public. The following
methods of obstructing windows and/or storefronts are prohibited:
the placement of newspaper or other types of newsprint on windows
and/or storefronts; the painting, soaping or hazing of windows and/or
storefronts; the boarding and/or placement of cardboard or other similar
material in windows and/or storefronts. The aforementioned list is
not intended to be exhaustive but rather illustrative as to those
types of conditions which are specifically prohibited under this section.
B. The Mayor
and Council of the Borough of Maywood may, by a selection method of
their choosing, commission/choose such visual works of arts to be
displayed by properties affected by this section.
C. Commercial
property owners must erect a display/art pursuant to this section.
Failure to erect the art/display as described herein shall be a violation
subject to a fine of not less than $250 and shall not exceed $500.
Each subsequent day the violation continues shall be considered a
separate punishable offence.