Seeking to recover overcharges from the city for landscaping in our property tax bills

Eddy Jackson attended the City of Yorba Linda Landscape Maintenance Citizen Advisory Committee meeting on 9/26 along with Maureen and delivered the following public comment to the committee.
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Thank you for your time and the opportunity to speak before you today.

My name is Eddy Jackson. I live in the Community of Green Hills, represented in the Engineer’s Annual Report as Zone L-2M on Page 76. For 10 years, the 201 homeowners in Green Hills have paid over $300 per year for city Landscape and Lighting in our property tax bills and received little to no benefit from the city for these monies, while communities around us have and continue to benefit greatly, like the community of Green Hills Estates, labeled as Zone L-2L on page 75.

According to page 22 of the report, Zone L-2L received a benefit of landscape and tree maintenance on their private slopes totaling 213,380 square feet. Yet, our HOA has previously and continues to handle the landscape and tree maintenance for the north side of New River Rd., both sides of Avenida Adobe, as well as portions of Yorba Linda Blvd.

I have 4 significant concerns to discuss tonight:
1. On Page 17 of the report, it shows that Yorba Linda Blvd. is a Primary Arterial Street, yet our HOA has previously and continues to irrigate and maintain a portion of that property. What do we need to do to hand this off to the city?
2. While most of the streets leading in and out of the City Limits of Yorba Linda are listed as Arterial Streets on Page 17, New River Rd., which leads traffic from Esperanza Rd. to Yorba Linda Rd. and vice versa is not listed. What do we need to do to have New River Rd. listed as an Arterial Street and maintained by the city?
3. Why and how is the median on New River Rd. near the Albertsons shopping center considered to be a benefit to the Green Hills community on Page 22 of the report?
And finally:
4. Where is the money that we’ve been paying for services not rendered to the benefit of the Green Hills community and how quickly will it be returned to us?

Thank you again for your time.
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We will be fighting for the Green Hills community to recover the landscaping and lighting maintenance fees that have been overcharged for many years! We owe a debt of gratitude to the Rancho Dominguez Community Assoication for shedding light on this inequity.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/city-495724-district-rancho.html