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Irvine council sends modest landscape-and-lighting assessment increase to property-owner vote after heated debate
Summary
After hours of testimony and a late reconsideration, the City Council voted 4-2 to start a Proposition 218 process sending a modest increase to the landscape, lighting and park maintenance assessment to property owners for a mail ballot.
The Irvine City Council voted 4-2 on April 8 to begin a Proposition 218 ballot process that would let property owners decide whether to raise the city’s landscape, lighting and park maintenance (LLPM) assessment. The council approved staff’s three-step package to mail ballots, hold a public hearing and certify results.
Council debate centered on whether to ask property owners to pay an incremental portion of a projected $4.6 million shortfall in the LLPM fund. Supporters said the modest assessment would keep park and landscape maintenance at current service levels; opponents said the city should avoid asking property owners to cover costs resulting from policy choices, including the city’s shift to electric landscaping equipment.
The council heard a data-heavy…
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