Silicon Valley Taxpayers' Ass'n v. Santa Clara County Open Space Authority

Supreme Court of California · Decided 2008-07-14

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Opinion CHIN, J. In 1996, Proposition 218 1 limited local government’s ability to impose real property assessments in two significant ways. An assessment can be imposed only for a “special benefit” conferred on real property (art. XIIID, § 2, subd. (b)), and the assessment on any parcel must be in proportion to the special benefit conferred on the particular parcel (art. XIII D, § 4,…

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