KRS 67A.918: Duties of commissioners.

The board of commissioners shall:

(1) Study the need for new parking facilities within the urban -county and report the

results of such study to the legislative body.

(2) Study the need for parking space to be provided without charge to certain classes of

users within one or more districts of the urban-county and report the results of such

study to the legislative body.

(3) If the authority finds a need for one or more parking districts it may make a report

which shall:

(a) Describe the outside boundaries of the proposed local parking distric t giving

due consideration to benefit rendered to each parcel or tract of real estate so

included.

(b) Describe the boundaries within the proposed parking district or such

subdistricts as may be required to properly adjust for various degrees of

benefit to each subdistrict within the local parking district.

(c) Propose parking facilities or structures to be acquired or constructed and give

the expected cost of such facilities.

(d) Propose a plan of assessment or taxation or both to be imposed on business es,

professions, and real estate located within the proposed parking district

consistent with the fiscal needs of the district.

(4) The authority shall report the results of its study to the legislative body, describing

the outside boundaries of the area to be benefited, the nature and extent of benefit,

the nature and cost of the facilities proposed, and the details of the plan of

assessment or taxation, or both, proposed to be imposed on businesses, professions,

and real estate located within the propose d parking district. If the legislative body

finds that the general plan is in the public interest, the legislative body shall set by

resolution a time and place for a first public hearing on the proposal. A notice of

the time and place of the hearing, inc luding the complete text of the report of the

authority to the legislative body, shall be published pursuant to KRS Chapter 424.

The hearing shall be held before the legislative body, with the mayor presiding.

(5) After the public hearing the legislative body may:

(a) By resolution determine that no local parking district is in the best interests of

the urban-county government.

(b) Resubmit the original study and report to the authority with directions to make

specific changes.

(c) Make such changes to the proposed boundaries of the district and subdistricts

(if any) as may be deemed necessary and make such changes to the proposed

ad valorem tax rates or occupational taxes as may be found necessary in

keeping with the revenue needs of the district and t he benefit expected to be

derived to the various recipients. Once such changes are made, the legislative

body may create by ordinance the existence of a local parking district

incorporating into the ordinance any amendments.