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City of Pleasanton <br />Landscape Maintenance District No. 1993-1, Windsor <br />Engineer’s Report <br /> <br />Page 28 <br /> <br />Benefit to Property Inside the District that is Indirect and Derivative = 0% <br />The “indirect and derivaƟve” benefit to property within the Maintenance District <br />is parƟcularly 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 “parƟcular and disƟnct” when compared with the <br />unique proximity, access and views of the Improvements enjoyed by benefiƟng <br />properƟes in the Maintenance District. <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 faciliƟes because such properƟes, 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, essenƟally 0% of the land area is used <br />for such regional purposes. <br />Benefit To The Public At Large = 10% <br />The general benefit to the public at large can be esƟmated by the proporƟonate <br />amount of Ɵme that the Maintenance District’s public landscaped areas and <br />faciliƟes 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 conducted by SCI, in which visitors to similar landscape, open space and <br />parks, at various Ɵmes of the day, evening, and week, were asked to look at a <br />District map and to idenƟfy whether they lived or worked within the City, less than <br />5% of the use of similar landscape, open space, parks or recreaƟon areas is by the <br />public at large. When people outside the Maintenance District use landscape, <br />open space, parks or recreaƟon areas, they diminish the availability of such <br />faciliƟes for people within the Maintenance District. Therefore, another 5% of <br />general benefits are allocated for people within the Maintenance District. <br />Combining these two elements of general benefit, we find that 10% of the benefits <br />from the Improvements are general benefits to the public at large. <br />Page 149 of 617