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Article XX COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS Sec. 13-200. General Provisions. Whenever the public interest or convenience may require, the Council of the City of Santa Ana, acting under the authority conferred upon it by the City Charter, shall have the power and authority to provide supplemental services, activities and improvements in specifically defined districts of the City. The City shall determine and declare the geographic area(s) to be specially benefited by said services, activities and improvements; and to assess the cost and expenses of said services, activities and improvements, including all expenses incurred incidentally thereto, upon the lots or parcels of real property in proportion to the estimated benefits to be received. The procedures established herein shall be additional or alternative to any other procedure established by ordinance or State law. The election to proceed under this Article shall be expressed in a Resolution of Intent to form a district which shall be referred to as a Community Management District ("CMD"). Sec. 13-201. Definitions. (a) "Improvement" means the acquisition, construction, installation, or maintenance of any tangible property with an estimated useful life of five years or more including, but not limited to, the following: (1) parking facilities and structures; (2) benches, booths, kiosks, display cases, pedestrian shelters and signs, trash receptacles and public restrooms; (3) public lighting and heating facilities; (4) closing, opening, widening or narrowing of existing streets; (5) security facilities or equipment or both; (6) ramps, sidewalks, plazas, town centers, pedestrian malls or similar open space; (7) rehabilitation or removal of existing structures; (8) installation or planting of landscaping, statuary, fountains, decorations and other ornamental structures and facilities; 11 B-2