1. “Improvement” means the acquisition, construction, installation, or maintenance of any tangible property with an estimated useful life of five years or more including, but not limited to, the following:
a. Parking facilities;
b. Benches, booths, kiosks, display cases, pedestrian shelters and signs, trash receptacles and public restrooms;
c. lighting and heating facilities;
d. decorations;
e. fountains;
f. planting areas;
g. minor modification of existing streets;
h. facilities or equipment or both, to enhance security of persons and property within the area; ramps, sidewalks, plazas, town centers or pedestrian malls;
i. rehabilitation or removal of existing public structures;
j. installation or planting of landscaping;
k. the installation or construction of statuary, fountains and other ornamental structures and facilities;
l. the installation or construction of any facilities which are appurtenant to any of the foregoing or which are necessary or convenient for the maintenance or servicing thereof, including, but not limited to, grading, clearing, removal of debris, the installation or construction of curbs, gutters, walls, sidewalks or paving, or water, irrigation, drainage or electrical facilities;
2. “Maintain” or “maintenance” means the furnishing of services and materials for the ordinary and usual maintenance, operation, and servicing of any improvement, including:
a. repair, removal, or replacement of any part of the improvement;
b. providing for the life, growth, health and beauty of landscaping including cultivation, irrigation, trimming, spraying, fertilizing, or treating for disease or injury;
c. the removal of trimmings, rubbish, debris and other solid waste;
d. the cleaning, sandblasting and painting of walls and other improvements to remove or cover graffiti.
3. “Activities” which benefit real property located in the district, means, but is not limited to, all of the following:
a. promotion of public events which benefit businesses or real property in the district;
b. furnishing of music in any public place within the district;
c. promotion of tourism within the district;
d. marketing and economic development, including business retention and recruitment;
e. providing security, sanitation, graffiti removal, street and sidewalk cleaning and other municipal services supplemental to those normally provided by the municipality.
4. “Special economic incentive zones” means those areas of the City of Los Angeles which have been previously designated as, or are subsequently designated as: Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative areas (LANI); Targeted Neighborhood Initiative areas (TNI); Transportation Oriented Districts (TOD); or are commercial or industrial census tracts with a poverty level of 20% or higher.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 173,167, Eff. 5-15-00.