For City Council Meeting [October 12, 2021]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Marcus Fuller, City Manager
FROM: Michael Tahan, Interim Public Works Director
Title
Request City Council to Conduct a Public Hearing Regarding the Proposed Annexation of Territory to the Rialto Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance District No. 2.
POWERPOINT
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BACKGROUND
The Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, (the "Act"), beginning with Section 22500 of the California Streets and Highways Code, authorizes the City Council to establish a special district to pay for the costs to operate and maintain public improvements that benefit private properties. In January 2005, the City Council established Rialto Landscaping and Lighting Maintenance District No. 2 (LLMD No. 2) to fund costs for the operation of new streetlights added to the City's street light system, and to fund costs for the maintenance of exterior parkway and median irrigation and landscaping adjacent to and associated with private land development. Within LLMD No. 2, the City currently maintains a total of over 24.53 acres of landscaped areas.
The City established LLMD No. 2 to annex the public landscaping and lighting related to all new developments within the City. In contrast with LLMD No. 1, the City may annually adjust the special assessments for inflation, using the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The City conditions new development to annex into LLMD No. 2 to fund maintenance of exterior landscaped parkways or medians, and/or new streetlights. Proposition 218 allows for the maximum special assessment rate, levied under LLMD No. 2, to increase annually by the percentage increase of the Local CPI for the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario Area for All Urban Consumers from January to January, as originally approved by the voters.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION
The City approves land development projects with conditions to construct parkway and/or median landscaping, and to install City streetlights. De...
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