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Home My WebLink About2015-06-23 - AGENDA REPORTS - ANNEX SMD L-94 (2)Agenda Item: 12 CITY OF SANTA CLARITA Q) AGENDA REPORT PUBLIC HEARING CITY MANAGER APPROVAL: PZ DATE: June 23, 2015 SUBJECT: ANNEXATION OF PARCELS INTO STREETLIGHT MAINTENANCE DISTRICT NO. 1 (ANNEXATION NO. L-94) DEPARTMENT: Administrative Services PRESENTER: Kevin Tonoian RECOMMENDED ACTION City Council conduct a public hearing, and open and review the ballots. If no majority protest exists, adopt a resolution ordering said annexation, and authorize the annual levy and collection of assessments within the District. If a majority protest exists, no action will be required. BACKGROUND Streetlight Maintenance District (SMD) No. I was established to collect funds to cover the expenses for energy and maintenance of City streetlights. The costs associated with the approximately 17,843 streetlights in the City are billed by Southern California Edison to the City. The 39 parcels in Annexation L-94 include approximately 251 acres of territory, consisting of one non-residential development (Bouquet Canyon Plaza) and one residential development (Five Knolls). The parcels are generally located in the vicinity of Bouquet Canyon Road/Newhall Ranch Road and Five Knolls Drive/Golden Valley Road (detailed project locations attached). As a condition of development, these properties are required to annex into SMD No. 1 in order to pay their fair share toward installation and ongoing maintenance cost of streetlight facilities. All parcels identified in this annexation receive benefit from SMD services. All six property owners, whom comprise ownership of the 39 parcels, were mailed assessment ballots on or before May 8, 2015. At the close of tonight's Public Hearing, the ballots for L-94 will be tabulated. Barring a majority protest, it is recommended the City Council give final approval of this annexation. The annual levy of assessments for the above parcels covers the anticipated maintenance costs with the annexation for SMD No. 1. The maximum annual assessment is adjusted annually according to the change in the Los Angeles, Riverside, and Orange County areas' Consumer tr-tllJ Litft� ��l�D Adopted- C Page u 7 Adop!ed- Resp � �'✓ � Packet Pg. 125 Price Index (CPI), as determined by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Annually, the City Council will approve the actual assessment amount. The City Council may adopt a lesser assessment amount, but may not exceed the maximum annual assessment rate. ALTERNATIVE ACTION I . Do not annex the parcels into Streetlight Maintenance District No. I . 2. Other direction as determined by City Council. FISCAL IMPACT There is no fiscal impact to the General Fund by this action. ATTACHMEN'T'S Public Hearing Notice Resolution to Conduct Public Hearing for SMD No. I Annexation No. L-94 Project Locations for SMD No. I Annexation No. L-94 Engineer's Report for SMD No. I Annexation No. L-94 (available in the City Clerk's Reading File) Page 2 Packet Pg. 126 CITY OF SANTA CLARITA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: A Public Hearing will be held before the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita in the City Hall Council Chambers, 23920 Valencia Boulevard, first floor, Santa Clarita, California, on the 23rd day of June 2015, at or after 6:00 p.m., to consider annexation of 39 parcels into City Streetlight Maintenance District No. I, as described in the Assessment Engineer's Report and pursuant to the Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972, being a division of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California. Proponents, opponents, and any interested persons may appear and be heard on this matter at that time. Further information may be obtained by contacting the Administrative Services Department, 23920 Valencia Boulevard, Suite 260, Santa Clarita, CA 91355; (661) 290-2201, Dennis Luppens, Special Districts Administrator. If you wish to challenge this action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the City Council, at, or prior to, the public hearing. Dated: May 7, 2015 Kevin Tonoian City Clerk Publish Date: May 7, 2015 12.a Packet Pg. 127 6 z z 0 Lu Lu z z 12.b RESOLUTION NO, 15- A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, DECLARING THE RESULTS OF THE ASSESSMENT BALLOT TABULATION FOR ANNEXATION L-94, ANNEXING PARCELS INTO THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA STREETLIGHT MAINTENANCE DISTRICT NO. I, ORDERING MAINTENANCE WORK THEREIN, CONFIRMING THE DIAGRAMS AND ASSESSMENTS, AND PROVIDING FOR THE LEVY AND COLLECTION OF THE ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS THEREIN WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita, California, has initiated proceedings for the annexation of parcels and levy of annual assessments into a special maintenance district created pursuant to the terms of the "Landscaping and Lighting Act of 1972," being Division 15, Part 2 of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California (Landscaping Act), Article XIIID of the Constitution of the State of California (Article XIIID) and Proposition 218 Omnibus Implementation Act (Government Code Section 53750 and following) (Implementation Act). The Landscaping Act, Article XIIID, and the Implementation Act may be referred to collectively herein as the Assessment Law. Such special maintenance district is known and designated as the City of Santa Clarita Streetlight Maintenance District No. 1, (District) Annexation L-94, (Annexation); and WHEREAS, the City Council did order and subsequently receive a report prepared by W illdan Financial Services (Engineer) prepared in accordance with the Assessment.Law the Assessment Engineer's Report (Engineer's Report); and WHEREAS, the City Council did set the time and place for a Public Hearing to consider the annexation of parcels into the District and the authorization to levy annual assessments therein and did order that notice of such Public Hearing, accompanied by assessment ballots, be given to the record owners of property within the proposed Annexation in accordance with the provisions of the Assessment Law; and WHEREAS, notice of such Public Hearing accompanied by assessment ballots were mailed to the record owners of property within the proposed Annexation in accordance with the provisions of the Assessment Law. NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Santa Clarita does hereby resolve as follows: SECTION 1. Recitals. The above recitals are all true and correct. SECTION 2. Procedures. The City Council hereby finds and determines that the procedures for the consideration of the levy of the assessments have been undertaken in accordance with the Assessment Law, SECTION 3. Assessment Ballot Procedures. Assessment ballots were mailed as required by Assessment Law to the record owners of all properties within the Annexation which are proposed to be assessed. The assessment ballots completed and received by the City Clerk prior to the close of the Public Hearing have been tabulated in accordance with the procedures Packet Pg. 128 12.b established by Assessment Law and the City Council, and the results of such tabulation have been submitted to the City Council. The City Council hereby finds the assessment ballots submitted in favor of the levy of assessments, as weighted in accordance with Assessment Law, exceed the assessment ballots submitted in opposition to such levy, also as weighted in accordance with Assessment Law. Therefore no majority protest to the levy of assessments within the Annexation has been found to exist. SECTION 4. Annexation of Parcels. The City Council hereby orders the Annexation SECTION 5. Determination and Confirmation. Based upon the Engineer's Report and the testimony and other evidence presented at the Public Hearing, the City Council hereby makes the following determinations regarding the assessments for Fiscal Year 2015-16 and the maximum annual assessments proposed to be imposed to pay for the estimated costs of the maintenance of all of the improvements to ultimately be maintained upon the completion and acceptance of thereof: a. The proportionate special benefit derived by each parcel assessed has been determined in relationship to the entirety of the cost of the operations and maintenance expenses. b. The assessments do not exceed the reasonable cost of the proportional special benefit conferred on each parcel. c. Only the special benefits have been assessed. The maximum assessments for the Annexation contained in the Engineer's Report for Fiscal Year 2015-16 are hereby confirmed. Subsequent annual assessments in amounts not to exceed the maximum annual assessment of the estimated costs of the maintenance of all of the improvements to ultimately be maintained upon the completion and acceptance of thereof as set forth in the Engineer's Report may be subsequently confirmed and levied without further assessment ballot proceedings pursuant to the Assessment Law. Each fiscal year after the base year (Fiscal Year 2015-16), the maximum assessment shall be increased by the Consumer Price Index, (CPI) for all Urban Consumers, Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside County areas without further compliance with the assessment ballot procedures required under the Assessment Law, SECTION 6. Ordering of Maintenance. The public interest and convenience requires, and this legislative body does hereby order, the maintenance work to be made and performed as said maintenance workis set forth in the Final Engineer's Report. SECTION 7. Filing with City Clerk. The above -referenced diagrams and assessments shall be filed in the Special Districts Office. Said diagrams and assessments, and the certified copy thereof, shall be open for public inspection. SECTION 8. Filing with the County Auditor. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to cause the assessments as approved by this resolution to be filed with the County Auditor along with and in the same manner as all other assessments filed for the City of Santa Clarita Streetlight Maintenance District No. 1, including any diagrams, resolutions, or other Packet Pg. 129 documentation required by the County for the submittal of such assessments, on or before the date set by the County Auditor for the submittal of the Fiscal Year 2015-16 assessments. SECTION 9. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution. PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this day of June 2015. MAYOR ATTEST: CITY CLERK 12.b c DATE: rnS 0 z C 0 m STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) °C d COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss. a CITY OF SANTA CLARITA ) 0 z I, Kevin Tonoian, City Clerk of the City of Santa Clarita, do hereby certify that the e foregoing Resolution No. 15- was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa y Clarita at a regular meeting thereof, held on the day of June 2015, by the following vote: o AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: CITY CLERK Packet Pg. 130 12.c SMD No. I Annexation No. L-94 Project Locations Master Case No. 13-206 (The Bouquet Canyon Plaza) is located on the northeast corner of Bouquet Canyon Road and Newhall Ranch Road. This master case development includes the following Assessor's Parcels: Book 2811, Page 001, Parcel 149; and Book 2811, Page 059, Parcels 001 through 004. Master Case No. 12-168, which incorporates Tract Map Nos. 060258-01 and 060258-02 (Five Knolls); currently owned by Ennine Street LLC and Synergy Brookfield LLC. Specifically, Tract Map No. 060258-01 includes the planned 380 -unit residential condominium development (Phase I of the Five Knolls development) located east of Five Knolls Drive and north of Golden Valley Road and a remaining undesignated development area (vacant land) identified as Phase 3 ofthe Five Knolls development, which is located generally east of Five Knolls Drive, south of Golden Valley Road and north of Santa Clara Street. Tract Map No. 060258-02 includes the planned 119 unit single-family residential development (Phase 2 of the Five Knolls development) located west of Five Knolls Drive and north of Golden Valley Road. In addition to various landscaped areas, open spaces and common areas within Tract 60258, this territory incorporates 83.620 acres of undeveloped and restricted use land owned by LA City Department of Water and Power. The parcels that comprise this restricted use land are situated between and/or adjacent to the residential development and will be partially developed to incorporate streets, landscaped areas, and open spaces associated with Tract 60258. The Master Case No. 12-168 development at the time this Report was prepared, includes the following Assessor's Parcels that are part of Tract 60258: Book 2801, Page 001, Parcels 030 and 031; Book 2801, Page 029, Parcels 001 through 023; Book 2805, Page 001, Parcels 022, 023, 030, 032, and 034: Book 2812, Page 098, Parcel 016; and the restricted use area parcels owned by LA City Department of Water and Power which include Book 2801. Page 001, Parcels 270, 271, and 272; and Book 2849, Page 002, Parcels 272, 281, and 282. Q Packet Pg. 131 -