Pursuant to the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2002 (Public Law 107-96), the Mayor transmitted to the Council a Draft Master Plan for Public Reservation 13, dated March 31, 2002. Public Law 107-96 provides that the Mayor shall present to the Council for its approval a plan for the development of Reservation 13. The Draft Master Plan for Public Reservation 13, dated March 31, 2002, is hereby approved.
§ 10–1502. Health care facility; acreage set aside, development.
(a) Approximately 2 acres within Reservation 13 shall be set aside for the development of a new health care facility, which may include emergency care services, primary and specialty care physician offices, ambulatory surgery, diagnostic imaging, laboratories, or health education. Upon completion of the development of the health care facility, any excess land set aside for the facility shall be available for development.
(b)(1) The Mayor is authorized to issue a request for proposals for the development of a health care facility on the acreage set aside and to enter into any contract or agreement necessary to enable the construction and operation of the facility.
(2) Interested bidders shall be allowed to submit proposals for both constructing and operating the health care facility.
§ 10–1503. Establishment of Reservation 13 Benefit Area.
(a) There is established a Reservation 13 Benefit Area (“R13BA”), which shall be comprised of the 67 acres of land historically know as Reservation 13.
(b) Repealed.
(c) Repealed.
§ 10–1504. Establishment of special taxing district.
(a) The R13BA shall be a special taxing district.
(b) All sales tax revenues generated from commercial enterprises within the R13BA, all taxes on any real property, except for the real property special tax set aside to pay debt service on general obligation bonds issued by the District of Columbia, and all payments made in lieu of taxes on any real property, which is exempt or immune from real property taxation that is leased, loaned, or otherwise made available to any person in connection with a commercial enterprise or as a residence in an amount equivalent to the tax that would be lawfully assessed if the real property were not exempt or immune from real property taxation, that are collected within the R13BA shall be applied in the following order:
(1) To fund infrastructure improvements related to a proposed development; or
(2) To be deposited in the Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund, established by subchapter II of Chapter 18 of Title 7 ("Fund") into a dedicated R13BA Health Care account to be used for the purpose of providing health care to the uninsured residents of the District.
(c) Repealed.
§ 10–1505. Allocation of R13BA property sales and lease proceeds.
The proceeds from the lease or sale of any property in the R13BA, which includes all structures of a permanent character erected on or affixed to, any natural resources located on or under, all riparian rights attached to, or any air space located above or below the property or any street or alley, owned, controlled, or administered by the District, shall be applied in the following order:
(1) To fund infrastructure improvements related to a proposed development; or
(2) To be deposited in the Fund into a dedicated R13BA Health Care account to be used for the purpose of providing health care to the uninsured residents of the District.
