Foothill Ranch Blog

This came as a surprise to me: Mello-Roos assessments change from time to time depending on how the investments for the Community Facilities Districts are performing. CFD 87-4 is the Mello-Roos district for Foothill Ranch. I spoke to Don, an advisor to County Supervisor Pat Bates, today and he said that the increase is still being calculated by the consulting firm David Taussig & Associates, Inc. The increase is expected to be 2-3% over what you are paying now. For my house it is going up about $50.
Mello-Roos came about as a way for the counties to get around the Prop 13 tax reforms. If you would like to see what the maximum Mello-Roos assessment for your property, go to this link: http://cams.ocgov.com/Web_Publisher/mainlist.asp?docid=00000026&docname=Agenda08_04_2009.htm&meetdate=08_04_2009&pagendatypeid=1&pisagenda=1
Fortunately, the Mello-Roos assessments were written with a yearly increase cap, so we should not see a big jump in Mello-Roos.
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Links:
Patricia C. Bates
Board Chair
Supervisor, 5th District
County of Orange
333 W. Santa Ana Blvd.
Santa Ana, CA 92701
Phone 714.834.3550
Fax: 714.834.2670
PatBates@ocgov.com
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David Taussig & Associates, Inc.
http://www.taussig.com/index.html