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CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING AGENDA PACKET 5-5-26
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City of Pleasanton <br />Ponderosa‐Del Prado Landscape Maintenance District 2026‐1 <br />Engineer’s Report <br />Page 22 <br /> <br />There is no widely accepted or statutory formula for general benefit. General benefits are <br />benefits from improvements or services that are not special in nature, are not “particular <br />and distinct” and are not “over and above” benefits received by other properties. SVTA <br />provides some clarification by indicating that general benefits provide “an indirect, <br />derivative advantage” and are not necessarily proximate to the improvements. <br />In this Report, the general benefit is liberally estimated and described, and then budgeted <br />so that it is funded by sources other than the Assessment. <br />A formula to estimate the general benefit is listed below: <br /> <br />General <br />Benefit = <br />Benefit to Real <br />Property Outside <br />the Assessment <br />District <br />+ <br />Benefit to Real <br />Property Inside the <br />Assessment District <br />that is Indirect and <br />Derivative <br />+ <br />Benefit to <br />the Public <br />at Large <br /> <br />Special benefit, on the other hand, is defined in the California Constitution as "a particular <br />and distinct benefit over and above general benefits conferred on real property located <br />in the district or to the public at large." The SVTA decision indicates that a special benefit <br />is conferred to a property if it "receives a direct advantage from the improvement (e.g., <br />proximity to a park)." In this Assessment, properties in the District have close and unique <br />proximity, views, and access to the Improvements that other properties and the public at <br />large do not share. Therefore, the overwhelming proportion of the benefits conferred to <br />property within the District is special, and only minimal benefit is received by property <br />outside the District or the public at large. <br />Benefit Finding <br />Quantification of General Benefit <br />The starting point for evaluating general and special benefits is the current baseline level <br />of service. In the absence of the Assessment, no alternative funding source exists for the <br />maintenance of the Improvements within the Assessment District. The baseline level of <br />service without the Assessment is therefore the absence of funded maintenance, and all <br />Improvements funded by the Assessment are over and above that baseline. The general <br />benefits estimated in this section are measured against that baseline. <br />Page 76 of 248
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