Kalashian

This is a consolidated appeal from judgments of the Superior Court of Fresno County upholding two special assessments levied by the County of Fresno, respondent herein, on behalf of Fresno County Improvement District No. Ill; the improvement district was formed and the assessments were levied pursuant to the Municipal Improvement Act of 1913 as set forth in division 12, commencing with section 10000, of the California Streets and Highways Code. For convenience, appellants in case No. 1932 will be referred to as the Kalashians; appellants in case No. 1933 will be referred to as the Garabedians. The undisputed facts follow.

The Kalashians and the Garabedians own separate parcels of property within the unincorporated area of Fresno County. Each parcel is zoned for industrial uses and in 1969 was located near a sewer line; the Kalashian parcel was near a sewer line that terminated at the corner of Pullman and Calwa Avenues; the Garabedian parcel was adjacent to a sewer line beneath Orange Avenue. Both sewer lines were owned by the City of Fresno and were outside of the city boundaries; they will hereafter be referred, to as the Pullman Avenue line and the Orange Avenue line,…