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Supervisors advance ordinance enabling 'Green Benefit Districts' to fund neighborhood open‑space care
Summary
The committee adopted technical amendments to an ordinance (Article 15A) that would allow residents to form assessment districts—called Green Benefit Districts—to fund maintenance and small capital work for non‑city open spaces. The change sets procedures; it does not itself form any district.
Supervisor Malia Cohen presented an ordinance to create a new mechanism—dubbed the Green Benefit District—to allow property owners to form assessment districts that finance landscaping, improvements and ongoing maintenance of open spaces not owned by the city.
Cohen told the Government Audit and Oversight Committee the measure mirrors the city’s existing community benefit district (CBD) framework but is focused on residential‑scale open space. She said the ordinance provides the process requirements and does not create any district today. "This legislation would allow for the…
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