(a) (1) A district may finance any of the following: (A) The purchase, construction, expansion, improvement, seismic retrofit, or rehabilitation of any real or other tangible property with an estimated useful life of 15 years or longer that satisfies the requirements of subdivision (b). (B) The planning and design work that is directly related to the purchase, construction, expansion, or rehabilitation of property. (C) The costs described in Sections 53398.56 and 53398.57. (D) (i) The ongoing or capitalized costs to maintain public capital facilities financed in whole or in part by the district. (ii) Notwithstanding clause (i), a district shall not use the proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to the authority in Article 4 (commencing with Section 53398.77) to finance maintenance of any kind. (2) The facilities are not required to be physically located within the boundaries of the district. However, any facilities financed outside of a district shall have a tangible connection to the work of the district, as detailed in the infrastructure financing plan adopted pursuant to Section 53398.69. (3) A district shall not finance the costs of an ongoing operation or providing services of any kind. (b) The district shall finance only public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance that provide significant benefits to the district or the surrounding community, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (1) Highways, interchanges, ramps and bridges, arterial streets, parking facilities, and transit facilities. (2) Sewage treatment and water reclamation plants and interceptor pipes. (3) Facilities for the collection and treatment of water for urban uses. (4) Flood control levees and dams, retention basins, and drainage channels. (5) Childcare facilities. (6) Libraries. (7) Parks, recreational facilities, and open space. (8) Facilities for the transfer and disposal of solid waste, including transfer stations and vehicles. (9) Brownfield restoration and other environmental mitigation. (10) The development of projects on a former military base, provided that the projects are consistent with the military base authority reuse plan and are approved by the military base reuse authority, if applicable. (11) The repayment of the transfer of funds to a military base reuse authority pursuant to Section 67851 that occurred on or after the creation of the district. (12) The acquisition, construction, or rehabilitation of housing for persons of very low, low, and moderate income, as defined in Sections 50105 and 50093 of the Health and Safety Code, for rent or purchase. (13) Acquisition, construction, or repair of industrial structures for private use. (14) (A) Acquisition, construction, or repair of commercial structures by the small business occupant of such structures, if such acquisition, construction, or repair is for purposes of fostering economic recovery of a community and of ensuring the long-term economic sustainability of small businesses. (B) For purposes of this paragraph and subject to subparagraph (C), âsmall businessâ means an independently owned and operated business that is not dominant in its field of operation, the principal office of which is located in California, the officers of which are domiciled in California, and which, together with affiliates, has 100 or fewer employees, and average annual gross receipts of fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) or less over the previous three years, or is a manufacturer, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 14837, with 100 or fewer employees. An âindependently owned and operated businessâ shall include a formula retail business that is an independently owned franchise. (C) A district may set a lower threshold for the average annual gross receipts over the previous three years and for the number of employees described in subparagraph (B). (15) Transit priority projects, as defined in Section 21155 of the Public Resources Code, that are l
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