The General Assembly finds and declares that:
(a) Marshaling New Castle County resources in a concerted manner under “one roof” to focus on persistent neighborhood problems, as contemplated by this chapter, increases the possibility of successfully resolving systemic neighborhood problems.
(b) Preserving and improving neighborhoods is critical to the long-term well-being of the State and to New Castle County.
(c) The provision of enhanced services, including for example, district-wide sanitation and snow removal, within New Castle County’s neighborhoods would result in greater neighborhood stability and improved quality of life.
(d) Numerous jurisdictions around the world and the United States, including Philadelphia, Baltimore, Buffalo, and Allentown, among many others, have successfully implemented and been the beneficiaries of such enhanced services through the creation of neighborhood improvement districts.
(e) The enhanced services and related programs provided within a neighborhood improvement district are funded by property owners within each district, who are the primary beneficiaries thereof, which reduces additional demands on the strained public treasury.
(f) It is in the best interests of the State, County, and its residents to create, where feasible and desired by the property owners and residents in each district, assessment-based neighborhood improvement districts to promote more attractive and healthier neighborhoods.
(g) The County should be given broad discretion in establishing by ordinance the type of assessment-based enhanced services and programs that are most consistent with neighborhood needs, goals, and objectives as determined and expressed by property owners and residents in the district.