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LMD Budgets
Background
Property owners within the LMDs pay an annual assessment to maintain the landscaping and trees in the public spaces in their neighborhoods. (Your LMD assessment is included with your property tax bill as a separate item.) This assessment has not increased since 1998. The City of Poway manages landscape maintenance activities within the LMDs. Over time, the City has been forced to reduce maintenance levels as costs have increased. Water, labor rates, drought, maturing trees and aging irrigation systems have all contributed to steadily increasing costs. The result has been a significant deterioration and loss of the once robust landscaping at neighborhood entrances, and overgrown and diseased trees along Twin Peaks and Espola roads. See Photos.
LMD Budget Tables
The tables below show the budgets for LMD 83-1 and LMD 86-1 for the past three fiscal years and the estimated budget for the current fiscal year.
The table on the left includes LMD 83-1A (in blue) and LMD 86-1 (in orange). (Note: LMD 83-1A comprises the vast majority of LMD 83-1. See LMD maps here.)
Due to increasing costs, landscape maintenance service has been gradually reduced over the years so that LMD 83-1A now receives maintenance service just once a month and LMD 86-1 now receives maintenance service just twice a month. Even with these low levels of maintenance, both LMD 83-1 and LMD 86-1 are projected to have deficits in the current fiscal year.
The table on the right shows the budgets for two small areas within LMD 83-1: LMD 83-1B comprises the Target shopping center and Kindercare at Pomerado and Twin Peaks roads, and LMD 83-1C comprises the homes in Kentfield Estates off Twin Peaks and Midland roads. (See map here).
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