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<br />City has formed four GHADs: Oak Tree Farm, Moller Ranch, Laurel <br />Creek Estates (The Preserve, Oak Hill Estates and Kolb Ranch Estates) <br />and Lemoine Ranch Estates. All are located on the west side of Foothill <br />Road and are in areas that require annual monitoring and maintenance of <br />geologic features. This report establishes the proposed annual assessments <br />to be levied on properties within the Districts for the upcoming tax year. <br /> <br />Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council: <br /> <br />BACKGROUND <br /> <br />GHAD - Purposes and Description <br /> <br />Geologic Hazard Abatement Districts (GHADs) are districts formed specifically to address <br />geologic concerns. A GHAD may be formed for the purpose of prevention, mitigation, <br />abatement or control of a geologic hazard; also for mitigation or abatement of structural <br />hazards that are partly or wholly caused by geologic hazards. A "geologic hazard" is broadly <br />defmed as an actual or threatened landslide, land subsidence, soil erosion, or any other natural <br />or unnatural movement of land or earth. However, damage that is the result of an earthquake <br />or fault movement is specifically exempted from coverage by the GHAD, in part because the <br />assessments to include protection from land movement due to earthquake would be <br />prohibitively high. Accordingly, residents should not consider the existence of a GHAD as a <br />substitute for earthquake insurance. <br /> <br />To the extent open space, including City-owned open space, is included in GHAD boundaries, <br />the GHAD would only respond to geologic hazards in the open space that are threatening <br />improvements benefiting the private property owners paying the assessments. Therefore, for <br />example, the GHAD would not respond to a landslide in the middle of an open space area that <br />is not a threat to adjacent improvements. The natural landslide condition would be allowed to <br />remain in the open space area without remediation. <br /> <br />A GHAD is a political subdivision of the State and is not an agency or instrumentality of a <br />local agency. A GHAD may acquire, construct, operate, manage or maintain improvements <br />on public or private lands and may exercise the power of eminent domain. A GHAD may <br />include lands in more than one local agency (city or county) and the lands may be publicly or <br />privately owned. The lands comprising the GHAD need not be contiguous so long as all are <br />specifically benefited by the proposed construction to be undertaken by the GHAD. In <br />addition, land may be annexed to an existing GHAD. <br /> <br />A GHAD is authorized to fmance improvements through the Improvement Act of 1911, the <br />Municipal Improvement Act of 1913, and the Improvement Bond Act of 1915. A GHAD may <br /> <br />SR 06: 136 <br />Page 2 of 32 <br />