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15 <br /> <br />City of Pleasanton <br />Landscape Maintenance District No. 1994-1, Oak Tree Farm Engineer’s Report, Fiscal Year 2025-26 <br />special benefit from the improvements including improved views, proximity and/or <br />access, but do not receive extension of outdoor areas nor the special benefit of <br />parcel creation. Since these adjacent properties only receive a 3 of the 5 major <br />special benefits, a 60% factor is applied. <br /> <br />Total General Benefit to Properties Outside of the District = 9.6% <br /> <br />Assumptions <br />8 parcels outside and adjacent to the District <br />42 parcels in the Maintenance District <br /> <br />Calculation <br />General Benefit to Property outside the Improvement District = <br />(8 / (8 + 42)) * 60% = 9.6% <br /> <br />Benefit to Property Inside the District that is Indirect and Derivative = 0.0% <br />The “indirect and derivative” benefit to property within the Maintenance District is <br />particularly difficult to calculate. A solid argument can be presented that all <br />benefit within the Maintenance District is special because the Improvements are <br />clearly “over and above” and “particular and distinct” when compared with the <br />unique proximity, access and views of the Improvements enjoyed by benefiting <br />properties in the Maintenance District. <br /> <br />Nevertheless, the SVTA decision indicates that there may be general benefit <br />“conferred on real property located in the district.” A measure of the general <br />benefits to property within the Maintenance District is the percentage of land area <br />within the Maintenance District that is publicly owned, open to the public, and <br />used for regional purposes such as major roads, rail lines, hospitals, and other <br />regional facilities because such properties, while physically within the <br />Maintenance District, are used for regional purposes and could provide indirect <br />benefits to the public at large. In this case, essentially 0% of the land area is <br />used for such regional purposes. <br /> <br />Benefit to the Public at Large = 10% <br />The general benefit to the public at large can be estimated by the proportionate <br />amount of time that the Maintenance District’s public landscaped areas and <br />facilities are used and enjoyed by individuals who are not residents, employees, <br />customers, or property owners in the Assessment Area. Based on surveys and <br />research in which visitors to similar landscape, open space and parks, at various <br />times of the day, evening, and week, were asked to look at a District map and to <br />identify whether they lived or worked within the City, less than 5% of the use of <br />similar landscape, open space, parks or recreation areas is by the public at large. <br />When people outside the Maintenance District use landscape, open space, <br />parks, or recreation areas, they diminish the availability of such facilities for <br />people within the Maintenance District. Therefore, another 5% of general benefits