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Carpinteria City proposes higher landscape maintenance assessment to address deferred maintenance and a $1M deficit
Summary
City staff say the Landscape Maintenance District has not been updated since 1996; with costs rising about 500% they propose an approximately $165.76/year assessment to cover ~ $1,150,000 in identified program costs and reduce a roughly $1,000,000 deficit currently subsidized by the general fund.
Carpinteria City Manager Michael presented the proposed Landscape Maintenance District update as a way to capture costs for right-of-way landscaping, tree care and related maintenance that the presentation said have been deferred for years.
Staff said the district, created in 1996, covers roughly 184 acres of public land, approximately 3,000 public street trees and services such as irrigation, graffiti…
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