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CMD to fund and provide beneficial programs and services to the core Downtown business center located <br />within the modified CMD boundaries. <br />D. East of French Street south of Fourth Street — this area is comprised of a single parcel occupied by a two <br />story retail furniture and storage building. The remainder of this block (not within the CMD) is a large high <br />density apartment complex. While the land uses to the north and west are retail, the highest and best <br />adaptive reuse of this building located on this residential block might be as a work -live loft complex. <br />Regardless, deletion of this area will not materially affect the ability of the CMD to fund and provide <br />beneficial programs and services to the core Downtown business center located within the modified CMD <br />boundaries. <br />E. East of Spurgeon Street between Third and First Streets — this area is comprised of a mid -size <br />neighborhood shopping center anchored by a major grocery store. In addition, there are several fast food <br />restaurants and a street front muffler shop. Other than the muffler shop, the remainder of these <br />buildings /parcels are all owned by a single entity. This center collects CAM fees from each tenant for clean, <br />safe and marketing services, similar to what the CMD provides. Deletion of this area will not materially <br />affect the ability of the CMD to fund and provide beneficial programs and services to the core Downtown <br />business center located within the modified CMD boundaries. <br />F. South of First Street, West of Broadway and East of the Alley West of Orange Avenue — these two <br />areas are comprised of a myriad of auto service /repair type businesses, an apartment complex and a vacant <br />lot. Deletion of these areas will definitely not materially affect the integral Downtown commercial fabric <br />and ability of the CMD to fund and provide beneficial programs and services to the core Downtown business <br />center located within the modified CMD boundaries. <br />It is noted that other CMD boundary modification scenarios were suggested by various sources, each with their own <br />sense of logic and purpose. However, each of the options proposed, would drastically reduce the ability of the <br />remaining CMD area to integrally market itself and to provide a comprehensive array of needed services due to <br />diminished resources, erratic boundary edges and lack of a critical mass of businesses. Each of these other options <br />offered, while respondent to a very focused sector within Downtown Santa Ana, are deemed inappropriate relative to <br />providing an overall economic development marketing vehicle for the dynamic and complex needs of Downtown as a <br />viable business center. <br />Finding 2. From Section 4(a): "Separate general benefits from the special benefits conferred on parcel(s). Only <br />special benefits are assessable. " <br />As stipulated by Proposition 218, assessment District programs and activities confer a combination of general and <br />special benefits to properties, but the only program benefits that can be assessed are those that provide special benefit <br />to the property owners. For the purposes of this analysis, a "general benefit" is hereby defined as: "A benefit to <br />properties in the area and in the surrounding community or benefit to the public in general resulting from the <br />improvement, activity, or service to be provided by the assessment levied ". "Special benefit" as defined by the <br />T <br />