In practice how Mello Roos works is you create a political subdivision and apply to the county they approve the area for the Bond issue.. you need Bond council and a investment bank to create and sell the bonds. once the Bond issue is approved this allows the developer to get a Bridge loan to build said improvements ( that are usually 5 to 50 million or so) Once improvements are in  and taken over by the county the Bond money is released and is used to pay off the Bridge lender..

I on one hand focus on local politics, because I can have a relationship with my state senator, assembly person, mayor and city council people. 

Did none of them have legal council?

Our local organizations do a lot - we have representatives meeting with council members, a professional PR firm to help change the narrative on STR's here on the islands, and we're working towards increasing our own lobbying power.

@Ian M.For the owners hiding behind the bare trust agreements, you can pull up their names by doing an online search for "David Baines: Real estate investors settle class-action lawsuit" Mr Baines before he retired was a business columnist for the largest newspaper in British Columbia, the Vancouver Sun.In this article you can see the payment the defendants (who I am talking about) had to pay out to the plaintiffs.

British Columbia and Alberta.

It is one of the best examples of City Council and local registered community organizations huddling together to create restrictions intended to thwart development but here they are doing it in a manner which will leave new housing stock in the dust relative to other neighborhoods thanks to terrible design restrictions.

If I was looking to get started in this sector I would start reaching out to city council members and find who I need to connect with and ask them the best way to get this mission accomplished and they likely will tell you more than you were expecting.Best of luck and what a great cause!

We viewed it completely differently.I ended up demolishing the house, went to city council got approval to subdivide the vacant land into two building lots, then flipped both building lots off to a builder.

Have you ever had to convince a city council to change the zoning regulations?