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A petition requesting the institution of proceedings to establish a Community Taxing District shall do all of the following:
A. Request the Council to institute proceedings to establish a Community Taxing District pursuant to this Chapter;
B. Describe the boundaries of the territory proposed for inclusion in the District;
C. Generally state the type or types of capital facilities and/or services to be financed by the District;
D. Be signed by not less than ten percent of the registered voters residing within the territory proposed to be included within the District or by owners of not less than ten percent of the area of land proposed to be included within the District.
If the Council finds that the petition is signed by the requisite number of registered voters residing within the territory proposed to be included within the District or by the requisite number of owners of land proposed to be included within the District, that finding shall be final and conclusive.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 177,051, Eff. 11-20-05.
Within six months after either a written request by two members of the Council or a petition requesting the institution of proceedings for the establishment of a Community Taxing District is filed with the City Clerk, the Council shall adopt a resolution of intention to establish a Community Taxing District in the form specified in Section 6.716.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 177,051, Eff. 11-20-05.
Proceedings for the establishment of a Community Taxing District shall be instituted by the adoption of a resolution of intention to establish the District, which shall do all of the following:
A. State that a Community Taxing District is proposed to be established under the terms of this Chapter and describe the boundaries of the territory proposed for inclusion in the District; which may be accomplished by a reference to a map on file in the office of the City Clerk, showing the proposed Community Taxing District;
B. State the name proposed for the District in substantially the following form: “Community Taxing District No. ___ of the City of Los Angeles”;
C. Generally state the type or types of capital facilities and/or services proposed to be financed by the District pursuant to this Chapter. If the purchase of completed facilities or the incurring of incidental expenses is proposed, the resolution may identify those facilities or expenses;
D. State that, except where funds are otherwise available, a special tax sufficient to pay for all facilities and/or services, secured by recordation of a continuing lien against all nonexempt real property in the District, will be levied annually within the area of the District. The resolution shall specify the rate and method of apportionment and manner of collection of the special tax in sufficient detail to allow each landowner or resident within the proposed District to estimate the maximum amount that it will have to pay;
E. Fix a time and place for a public hearing on the establishment of the District, which shall not be less than fifteen days after the boundary map is recorded pursuant to Section 3111 of the California Streets and Highways Code or more than sixty days after the adoption of the resolution, and direct the giving of notice as provided in Section 6.718 and, if desired, Section 6.719;
F. Direct the preparation and filing of the report under Section 6.717;
G. Contain a description of the proposed voting procedure;
H. Designate the anticipated governing body of the District, which governing body may be comprised of all or a certain number of members of the Council, or members of the legislative body of any local agency with whom the City has, or will, enter into a cooperation, joint powers agreement or other agreement pertaining to the proceeds of the special taxes, to act as the governing body to exercise the powers of the District.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 177,051, Eff. 11-20-05.
Amended by: Subsec. E., Ord. No. 179,539, Eff. 3-2-08.
At the time of the adoption of the resolution of intention to establish a Community Taxing District, the Council shall direct the appropriate officer to file or cause to be prepared and filed at or before the time of the hearing, a report with the City Clerk containing a brief description of the facilities, services or both proposed to be financed by type and an estimate of the cost of providing those facilities and services, together with an estimate of the costs of any debt issuance and the City’s administration of the District. If the purchase of completed facilities or the payment of incidental expenses is proposed, the report shall contain an estimate of the cost of those facilities or incidental expenses. The report shall be made a part of the record of the hearing on the resolution of intention to establish the District.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 177,051, Eff. 11-20-05.
A. The City Clerk shall publish a notice of the hearing once in a newspaper of general circulation in the proposed District. Publication shall be completed at least seven days prior to the date of the hearing.
B. The notice shall contain all of the following information:
1. The text of the resolution of intention to establish the District, and, if applicable, to incur Debt;
2. The time and place of the hearing on the establishment of the District;
3. A statement that at the hearing the testimony of all interested persons or taxpayers for or against the establishment of the District, the extent of the District, or the furnishing of specified types of facilities and/or services will be heard. The notice shall also describe, in summary, the effect of protests made by registered voters or landowners against the establishment of the District, the extent of the District, the furnishing of a specified type of facilities or services, or a specified special tax, as provided in Section 6.721;
4. A description of the proposed voting procedure.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 177,051, Eff. 11-20-05.
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