No. 13 (2019)
Estudios

Los Business Improvement Districts (BID): un instrumento efectivo para la reactivación de la actividad económica urbana. Modificaciones legislativas necesarias para poder implantarlos en el ámbito local

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María Luisa Esteve Pardo
Universitat de Girona

Published 2021-04-09

Keywords

  • Business Improvement Districts,
  • public-private partnership,
  • assessments,
  • fees and levies,
  • urban centres,
  • economic crisis,
  • comparative Law
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Esteve Pardo, M. L. (2021). Los Business Improvement Districts (BID): un instrumento efectivo para la reactivación de la actividad económica urbana. Modificaciones legislativas necesarias para poder implantarlos en el ámbito local. Anuario De Derecho Municipal, (13), 205–229. Retrieved from https://www.revistasmarcialpons.es/index.php/anuarioderechomunicipal/article/view/business-improvement-districts-bid

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Abstract

Business Improvement Districts (BID) are organizations of a private nature or public-private partnerships with local authorities, created when a majority of the business owners or business premises owners in a delimited area agree, by means of a ballot process, to manage the zone to offer more supplementary services funded by a mandatory charge with the aim of boosting the economy and regenerating the area. Since their appearance in Canada over four decades ago, this new form of public-private partnership in the local government sphere has spread to different cities in other countries.
BIDs have proved to be a creative and very efficient mechanism of urban governance, capable of satisfactorily combining the public and private interests at play. Establishing a BID is a democratic process that guarantees the involvement of all the stakeholders. The key to their effectiveness is that they have a source of sustained funding, sufficient to allow them to improve the provision of urban services. Introducing the BID model in Spain could serve not only to boost urban commercial areas, but also other environments where there is economic activity, such as industrial parks and tourist destinations.

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