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Laguna Beach council adopts easier petition rules and possible city contribution to spur utility undergrounding
Summary
Council approved changes to assessment-district policy to lower petition threshold, drop petitioner deposit and allow a city contribution to underground remaining overhead utilities in five large preliminary districts.
The City Council voted to revise Laguna Beach’s utility undergrounding assessment-district policy to encourage larger projects to move forward, adopting lower petition thresholds, removing a petitioner deposit requirement and authorizing limited city contributions.
Staff presented a proposed package of changes crafted after a council strategic workshop and an ad hoc working group. The key policy changes approved by council are: - reduce the petition threshold for a formation petition from 60% of property owners to 50%; - eliminate the $500-per-petitioner deposit that had been required to begin the petition process; and - adopt a guideline that the city will provide a 10 percent “general benefit” credit to an assessment district plus an optional discretionary city contribution of…
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