What kinds of improvements a special district can pay for

A district may be established to finance the purchase, construction, installation, expansion, improvement or rehabilitation of any real or other tangible property with a useful life estimated by the council to be five years or longer. Special improvements may be privately owned if the council determines that they serve a public purpose. Special improvements need not be physically located within the district. Examples of special improvements which may be financed by a district include, but are not limited to, the following: (a) Streets, roads, highways, pedestrian malls, sidewalks or alleyways, including but not limited to, grading, paving or otherwise improving the foregoing. (b) Public parking facilities. (c) Lighting systems, including, but not limited to traffic signals, for any public right- of-way. (d) Local park, recreation, child care, parkway, and open-space facilities. (e) Elementary, secondary, vocational and higher education school sites and facilities. (f) Libraries, museums or other cultural facilities. SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT FINANCING BY COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICTS § 32-7 (g) The undergrounding of natural gas pipeline facilities, telephone lines, facilities for the transmission or distribution of electrical energy, cable television lines and other utility facilities. The County may enter into an agreement with a public utility to utilize those facilities to provide a particular service and for the conveyance of those facilities to the public utility. If the facilities are conveyed to the public utility, the agreement may provide for a refund by the public utility to the district or improvement area thereof for the cost of the facilities. Any reimbursement made to the district shall be utilized to reduce the special tax levied within the district or improvement area, or to construct or acquire additional facilities within the district or improvement area, as specified in the ordinance of formation. (h) Water systems. (i) Police, criminal justice (including but not limited to jails and courthouses), fire suppression (including but not limited to fire stations) and paramedic facilities. (j) Wastewater, storm drainage, sewage removal or treatment, or solid waste disposal, recycling or resource recovery systems or facilities. (k) Transit or transportation systems. (l) Telecommunications systems. (m) Any other facilities which the County is authorized by law to contribute revenue to, or construct, own, maintain or operate. (1994, ord 94-77, sec 3.)32-7