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Golden Hill Residents Aren't MAD Anymore
Congratulations to Golden Hill residents! I live in the North Orange County City of Yorba Linda. We have a similar situation here - only the Landscape Assessment was set up in 1980. Our HOA maintains all of the slopes on the public streets throughout and surrounding our community, including the major arterial streets, while we are paying into a special assessment fund that maintains the private property of others, including a large HOA across town who has been relieved of landscaping maintenance costs - including the water bill and infrastructure repairs. This is a MAD gone terriby wrong - with the few specially benefitted being subsidized with tax dollars from the whole. I am watching your case to see if San Diego ever compensates the assessment payers. Good Luck!— December 3, 2011 9:01 a.m.