What is "Enabling Legislation"?


“Enabling legislation” is the necessary bridge between the advisory referendum and the binding referendum.  Housing Bronzeville is insisting that all voters in Bronzeville be given a second chance—this time on the binding referendum—to establish a special service taxing district for affordable home ownership in the community which would be called the "Bronzeville Housing Trust Fund." The only way such a binding referendum can take place is through the passage by the City Council or State Legislature of “enabling legislation” that would authorize that vote and the establishment of the Bronzeville district, provided that residents vote favorably for it.

Read the enabling legislation drafted by the Blue Ribbon Commission, entitled "Bronzeville Affordable Home Ownership Ordinance (Nov. 12, 2007)

 

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