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plan proposes that there will be two distinct Benefit Zones for the Downtown CBID. With that <br />in mind, the Benefit Zones, in general, would include the following parcels: <br />Benefit Zone 1 would include: <br />a. All parcels fronting along Broadway from Maple Street on the East to EI Camino on the <br />west, also the site of the new Crossings 900 office building <br />b. Courthouse Square <br />C. Parcels fronting on Theatre Way <br />d. All parcels fronting on the single block of Main Street from Broadway to Middlefield <br />(Upper Main) <br />Benefit Zone 2 would include: <br />a. All commercial/retail, residential and private parcels not included in Benefit Zones 1 <br />Method of Financing: (Please see Section 4 and the Assessment Engineer's report for further <br />detail of the method of financing) <br />The financing of the CBID is based upon the levy of special assessments upon real property that <br />receive special benefits from the improvements and activities. See Section 4 for assessment <br />methodology and compliance with Proposition 218. There will be five factors used in the <br />determination of proportional benefit to the parcels in the CBID. Those five factors are: <br />• Linear frontage along a public street. Parcels will be charged the same frontage rates <br />due to the same frequency of services that the all parcels will receive from the Sidewalk <br />Operations portion of the CBID budget; <br />• Lot square footage or the footprint of the parcel; <br />• Building square footage (excluding parking structures built within the building that <br />predominantly serve the tenants of the building and are not open to the public); and <br />• Residential condos that front along the public rights of way within the District. <br />• Benefit Zones <br />Costs: <br />Annual assessments are based upon an allocation of program costs by assessable linear <br />frontage; PLUS lot or parcel square footage; PLUS assessable building square footage, and in <br />the case of residential condos, only by actual building square footage of the residential condo. <br />The differentiation between residential condo parcels and commercial or non-commercial <br />parcels is detailed in Section 4 of this report. <br />The residential condo owners are assessed differently since they are, in essence, acquiring air <br />rights with the condos and linear frontage and lot size is not relevant to their parcels. This <br />alternate assessment methodology is created to respond to their special needs of homeowners <br />within this potentially ascending sector within the Downtown Redwood City district. All four <br />property variables, including an individual parcel's location within the designated areas for <br />Benefit Zone will be used in the calculation of the annual assessment. The FY 2015 year <br />annual assessments per property variable and Benefit Zone are as follows: <br />