A. Under this chapter, the term "facilities" shall include the installation, construction, planting and/or acquisition of any public or private (1) landscaping, including trees, shrubs, flowers, groundcover, grass or other ornamental and/or erosion control or privacy or buffer vegetation, irrigation systems and controls, statuary, fountains, water features or other ornamental structures, fencing, soundwalls or other barriers, lighting facilities and related signage; (2) streets, including any street, highway, road, alley, lane, boulevard, pedestrian mall, parkway, bicycle or pedestrian path, trail, gutters, sidewalks with or without curbs and gutters, or other way dedicated to or used for travel and all appurtenances including medians, soundwalls, traffic signals and warning devices, street signs and street lights; (3) parks, including recreational facilities, play fields, park or recreation administrative or neighborhood community center facilities, open space, hiking trails and access points; (4) sewer facilities, including drains, tunnels, sewers, conduits, culverts, and channels for drainage purposes; with necessary outlets, manholes, catch basins, flush tanks, septic tanks, disposal plants, connecting sewers, ditches, drains, conduits, channels, treated effluent dispersal sites and appurtenances; (5) flood control and storm drainage facilities, including, pipes, mains, channels, weirs, bulkheads, retention and detention basins, drop inlets, headwalls, dikes, levees, rip rap, vegetation and appurtenances; and (6) riparian habitat, including stream beds, vegetation and related features.

B. Under this chapter, the term "incidental expenses" shall include, together with any and all costs incidental to the creation of the district or any annexation thereto, including costs of reports, publications, notices, city staff, engineers, attorneys, special tax consultants and other required consultants, planning, designing, constructing or acquiring the facilities, including any environmental evaluations and all costs and expenses incurred in connection with the administration of a district created pursuant to this chapter or with the enforcement of the duty of a property owner pursuant to this code to maintain or repair any improvement, including but not limited to compensation of any attorney and/or consultant employed to render services in connection with such district or such enforcement proceedings.

C. Under this chapter, "services" shall include (i) operation (including, but not limited to, the provision of utilities, the hiring of personnel by contract or otherwise and the funding of reasonable reserves), maintenance, cleaning, repair, replacement or removal of any improvements that can be financed under this chapter or the Mello-Roos Community Facilities Act of 1982 (the "Act") and (ii) to the extent not included in the preceding clause (i), the operation, maintenance, cleaning, repair, replacement or removal of any improvement, providing for the life, growth, health and beauty of landscaping, including cultivation, irrigation, trimming, spraying, fertilizing or treating for disease or injury, removal of debris, rubbish, trimmings, or other solid waste, cleaning, sandblasting and painting of walls or other facilities to remove graffiti, whether or not benefit assessments are utilized, any of which items may be necessary and/or convenient for the care and preservation of the facilities described in subsection (A) of this section, including, without limitation, any related studies, testing, monitoring, weed abatement, riparian habitat restoration and/or preservation, dredging, desiltation and the removal of or remedial action for the cleanup of any hazardous substance released or threatened to be released into the environment in or near any improvement and the furnishing of electric current or energy, gas, or other illuminating agent for any lighting facilities or for the lighting or operation of any other facilities and water for irrigation of any landscaping, water features or the maintenance of any other improvements.