Inglewood Municipal Code Art. 11 Establishing Improvement District Procedural Ordinance

This Article shall be known and may be cited as the "Inglewood Improvement District Procedural Ordinance."

This Article is not exclusive. The Council shall have the power to provide other procedures or to follow procedures and powers now or hereafter provided by general law. The procedures and powers herein are alternative. When proceeding under this Article, its provisions only need be followed.

An assessment district shall consist of all territory which, as determined by the City Council, will be benefited by the improvements and is to be assessed to pay the costs thereof.

An assessment district may consist of all or any part of the territory within the City of Inglewood.

An assessment district may consist of contiguous or noncontiguous areas. The improvements in one area need not be of benefit to other areas.

The provisions of Streets and Highways Code, Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 5115) of Part 3 of Division 7, pertaining to the extension of the work or the assessment district beyond the boundaries of a local agency, are by this reference incorporated in this Article.

The provisions of Streets & Highways Code Divisions 4 (commencing with Section 2800) and Division 4.5 (commencing with Section 1300) shall not apply to this Article or proceedings taken pursuant thereto.

Any resolution, notice, report, diagram or assessment which is required to contain a description of the improvements, the boundaries of the assessment district or any zones therein, or the lines and dimensions of any lot or parcel of land may, for a full and detailed description thereof, refer to any plan or map which is on file with the clerk, the county auditor, or the county assessor and which is open to public inspection. The plan or map so referred to shall govern for all details of the description.

This Article shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purpose. Any proceedings taken under this Article and any assessment levied pursuant thereto shall not be invalidated for failure to comply with the provisions of this Article if such failure does not substantially and adversely affect the rights of any person. All determinations made by the City Council pursuant to this Article shall be final and conclusive in the absence of fraud or prejudicial abuse of discretion.

Whenever in the opinion of the City Council, the public interest or convenience may require, it may order the whole or any portion, either in length or in width, of any one or more of the public places designated in Section 10-139.13 to be improved by or have constructed therein, over or thereon, either singly or in any combination thereof, any of the following:

(1) Grading. The grading or regrading, the paving or repaying, the planking or replanking, the macadamizing or remacadamizing, the graveling or regraveling, the oiling or reoiling thereof.

(2) Sidewalks and structures. The construction or reconstruction of sidewalks, crosswalks, steps, safety zones, platforms, seats, statuary, fountains, parks and parkways, recreation areas, including all structures, buildings, and other facilities necessary to make parks and parkways and recreation areas useful for the purposes for which intended, culverts, bridges, curbs, gutters, tunnels, subways or viaducts.

(3) Sanitary sewers and facilities. Sanitary sewers or instrumentalities of sanitation, together with the necessary outlets, cesspools, manholes, catch basins, flush tanks, septic tanks, disposal plants, connecting sewers, ditches, drains, conduits, tunnels, channels or other appurtenances.

(4) Drains. Drains, tunnels, sewers, conduits, culverts and channels for drainage purposes; with necessary outlets, cesspools, manholes, catch basins, flush tanks, septic tanks, disposal plants, connecting sewers, ditches, drains, conduits, channels and appurtenances.

(5) Lighting. Poles, posts, wires, pipes, conduits, tunnels, lamps and other suitable or necessary appliances for the purpose of lighting said streets, places or public ways of any such city or property or rights-of-way owned by any such city, or for the purpose of furnishing electricity and electric service or telephone service to property within a city.

(6) Fire protection. Pipes, hydrants and appliances for fire protection.

(7) Water supply. Wells, pumps, dams, reservoirs, storage tanks, channels, tunnels, conduits, pipes, hydrants, meters or other appurtenances for supplying or distributing a domestic water supply.

(8) Gas supply. Mains, services, pipes, fittings, valves, regulators, governors, meters, drips, drains, tanks, ditches, tunnels, conduits, channels, or other appurtenances for supplying or distributing a domestic or industrial gas supply.

(9) Bomb or fallout shelters. The construction or maintenance of bomb shelters or fallout shelters which are primarily designed to protect and shelter the population from conventional or nuclear bomb or missile warhead explosions, shellfire, radiation, and fallout in the event of an enemy attack.

(10) Retaining walls; embankments. Retaining walls, embankments, buildings and any other structures or facilities necessary or suitable in connection with any of the work mentioned in this Section.

(11) Landscaping. The installation, planting and/or maintenance of landscaping, including, but not limited to, the planting of trees, shrubs or other ornamental vegetation.

(12) Ornamental structures. The installation, construction, and/or maintenance of statuary, fountains, and other ornamental structures and facilities.

(13) Stabilization of land. Compaction of land, change of grade or contours, construction of caissons, retaining walls, drains and other structures suitable for the purpose of stabilizing land.

(14) Maintenance or servicing. The maintenance or servicing, or both, of any of the foregoing, including, but not limited to, street cleaning or sidewalk cleaning whether or not said streets or sidewalks were originally constructed pursuant to this or any other ordinance or provision of law.

(15) Necessary improvements. All other work which may be deemed necessary to improve the whole or any portion of such streets, places, public ways, property, easements or rights-of-way owned by such city.

(16) Auxiliary work. All other work auxiliary to any of the above, which may be required to carry out the same.