Ventura to consider improvement district

Despite weakening sales and gloomy economic forecasts, downtown Ventura property owners are advancing efforts to create a special assessment district to pay for marketing, security, maintenance and other improvements. Proponents have mailed more than 220 ballot petitions to landowners in the city’s downtown core. The proponents need majority support before they can put the proposal to a formal vote, probably sometime in the spring. For the full story click here