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Page 4 of 6 <br /> <br />Informal surveys were distributed to district residents who provided email addresses to obtain <br />general feedback regarding preferred maintenance levels. The survey also included an option <br />indicating opposition to any assessment increase, which would maintain the existing <br />assessment structure and associated service levels. <br /> <br />Initiating proceedings does not approve any assessment amount at this time. Rather, it <br />authorizes the technical and legal steps necessary to define proposed assessments and to <br />evaluate special benefits for future consideration by property owners and the City Council. No <br />assessment amounts, rates, or methodologies are being approved as part of this action. <br /> <br />Landscape Maintenance District 1984-1 (Ponderosa-Del Prado) <br />The Ponderosa Homes subdivision includes 344 parcels and was originally formed as a <br />landscape maintenance district in 1984, with the earliest recorded assessment dating to 1988. <br />Maintenance responsibilities within the district include trees, shrubbery, groundcover, and <br />irrigation systems along Paseo Santa Cruz. These improvements are associated with Tract <br />5256 Phase III and Tract 4986, known as the Arroyo de la Laguna Improvements. <br /> <br />The landscaped areas maintained by the district are specifically located north of Corte de <br />Flores on the west side of Paseo Santa Cruz, extending approximately 160 feet, and north of <br />Corte Pacifica on the east side of Paseo Santa Cruz, extending approximately 1,370 feet. <br />These improvements are intended to provide a direct and distinct benefit to the properties <br />within the subdivision through neighborhood aesthetics, visual buffering, and functional <br />landscaping. <br /> <br />Under the current assessment funding level, available revenues are limited relative to the <br />district’s maintenance and infrastructure needs. While funding supports basic routine <br />maintenance activities, it does not provide sufficient capacity for capital repairs or planned <br />replacement of aging improvements. As a result, maintenance activities are largely reactive, <br />with limited ability to address long-term system needs. <br /> <br />Deferred maintenance has contributed to irrigation system failures, loss of trees and plant <br />material, and increased weed growth within maintained areas. The district does not maintain <br />adequate reserves to address these conditions through planned repair or replacement, which <br />Page 129 of 242