The Hanford City Council on Oct. 21 completed two public hearings and adopted resolutions to annex the Stonehaven subdivision into two Community Facilities Districts (CFDs): CFD 2025-1 (public safety services) and CFD 2025-2 (public maintenance services).

Staff said the annexation was a condition of subdivision approval for the residential tract south of Hanford-Armona Road between Twelfth and Thirteenth avenues. Susanna Hernandez of Willdan Financial Services presented financial and ballot details during the public hearings.

Key approvals and tax rates

For CFD 2025-1 (public safety services) the city recorded a rate of $164 per dwelling unit, which Willdan calculated would produce about $13,448 annually for the 82-lot tract (subject to CPI inflation adjustments). For CFD 2025-2 (public maintenance services) staff presented a proposed special tax of $541 per dwelling unit, estimated to produce about $44,362 annually for the 82-lot tract (also subject to CPI adjustments).

Ownership and the election

Willdan said the parcel owner within the annexation area is the project/developer (identified in the staff presentation as “Doctor Horton”), who holds 11.8 acres within the annexation boundary. Under the CFD annexation rules, landowners receive votes proportional to acreage; the owner cast 12 votes and all ballots returned were in favor, meeting the required two‑thirds threshold for the special-tax authorization. The council adopted two resolutions validating the election results, finding no valid protests and directing the recordation of an amended notice of special-tax lien.

Council action

The council voted to adopt the annexation resolutions and the resolutions declaring election results for both CFDs. Each resolution passed 4-0.

What’s next

Following the recordation of the amended notices of special-tax lien, the special taxes will appear on property tax bills for the lots as they are sold; the tax amounts are subject to annual inflation adjustments as specified in the CFD rate structure. Staff will continue standard implementation steps for CFD administration and tax collection.

Speakers quoted

"Each owner is allowed 1 vote for every acre... In this case, Doctor Horton is a sole property owner within the annexation boundary encompassing 11.8 acres. So it would be a total of 12 boats from Doctor Horton," — Susanna Hernandez, Willdan Financial Services (explaining ballot procedure).

Provenance

Staff opened the public hearings and the council adopted the resolutions during the Oct. 21 meeting; the first CFD presentation began at transcript time ~9894.466 and the final vote recordings were completed in the afternoons corresponding to the public hearing sequence (motions and results recorded at times shown in the transcript packet).