Landscape & Lighting Districts

What is a Landscape & Lighting Assessment District? To put it simply, each property owner pays through a special district tax for the maintenance of certain common areas such as street lights, neighborhood parks, streetscapes or boulevard medians.  The El Dorado Hills Community Services District has formed a number of Landscape and Lighting Assessment Districts (LLAD’s) in order to provide funding to maintain and improve specific areas within the CSD.

These LLAD’s have been made pursuant to the Landscape and Lighting Act of 1972, Part s of Division 15 of the California Streets and Highways Code, and Article XIIID of the California Constitution.

Each year, the District Board of Directors has an Annual Report prepared along with the District estimates for an operational budget, to determine the assessment annually levied for each parcel to determine what improvements or maintenance operations will be performed for that specific LLAD.  This budget determines what improvement projects and maintenance operations are performed for the fiscal year and directs the County Assessor what each parcel is levied annually. 

Some LLAD’s have built-in annual increases that can only be used when the budget requires that increase, otherwise, the levy remains the same or in some situation, has decreased for the year.  Other LLAD’s, do not have this built-in ability to increase and have remained stagnant for many years.  These LLAD’s provide the Parks Department with the highest challenge to maintain them as best as possible with funding that is slowly dwindling.

One method the District has tried to meet this challenge is to contract out for general landscape services, which the District has been successful doing for nearly a decade, but as the costs for fuel, fertilizer, irrigation supplies, etc. increase, the challenge seems to be slowly becoming more difficult.  As the CSD grows in developments, new LLAD’s are formed to assist in maintaining the new facilities that are developed within those areas.

Listed below are the active LLAD’s which represent approximately 24 acres of street and median landscape the District currently maintains:

• Stonegate LLAD
• Green Valley Hills LLAD
• Promontory LLAD
• Oakridge LLAD
• Oaktree LLAD
• Crescent Ridge LLAD
• La Cresta LLAD
• Lake Forest LLAD
• Marina Hills LLAD
• Francisco Oaks LLAD
• Highland Hills III LLAD
• Laurel Oaks LLAD
• Wild Oaks Park LLAD
• Bass Lake Village A LLAD
• Roadway LLAD
• Highland Hills I, II, & IV LLAD
• Creekside Greens LLAD
• Bass Lake B LLAD
• Highland View /Highland Hills/Sterlingshire LLAD
• North Commercial LLAD
• Silva Valley LLAD