Where the Dos Vientos Park Assessment Goes This Year

On June 4, 2026, the Conejo Recreation and Park District board voted 5-0 to levy this year's assessment for Landscape Maintenance District 94-1, the district that covers Dos Vientos. The rate for a single-family home went from $341.23 to $345.89. That's a $4.66 increase, about 1.4%. The district's own engineer's report put the change in the Los Angeles-area consumer price index at 2.93% from February 2025 to February 2026.

The budget behind that number tells a clear story. Most of the money keeps Dos Vientos Community Park, at Borchard Road and Via Las Brisas, looking the way it does today. A small slice is set aside each year for the next round of improvements. Those projects move slowly because the district designed them to.

One Park Takes the Largest Share

The FY2026-27 engineer's report budgets $942,430 to maintain everything in the district. That covers four parks and about 1,205 acres of open space. Here's how the acreage and the cost compare:

The Community Park makes up about 2% of the maintained acreage, yet it takes about 44% of the maintenance budget. The open space is about 96% of the acreage and takes about 20%. Those 1,205 acres hold the equestrian and hiking trails, wetlands and protected habitat around the neighborhood. The hillsides cost $159 an acre to look after. Ballfields, courts and lawns cost about a hundred times that.

That gap comes down to what each acre holds. CRPD lists five ballfields at the Community Park, plus two lighted tennis courts, a basketball court, sand volleyball courts, playgrounds and picnic and BBQ areas. Each of those needs mowing, lighting, repairs and resurfacing year after year. The report sets the rate by park type, using CRPD's standards of care for similar parks elsewhere in the district.

How the Bill Is Split

The district's total estimated cost this year is $1,068,430. Of that, $283,384 comes from ad valorem revenue, a share of the general property tax. The remaining $785,046 is spread across properties in the district by benefit unit. A single-family home counts as one unit, a multifamily residence as 0.67, and commercial land as four units per acre. The 2,044 single-family homes in the district carry $707,009 of the total.

Two lines in the budget sit outside upkeep:

• Incidentals: $12,000 for administration, legal fees and the annual engineer's report
• Capital improvements: $114,000, which goes into a fund for future projects

The capital line is about 11% of the total. Spread across the district's 2,269.61 benefit units, it comes to roughly $50 a unit. That's a rough figure, because ad valorem revenue also feeds the overall budget.

The rate also has room to rise. The FY2026-27 maximum is $424.87 per unit, $78.98 above what the board adopted. The cap can climb each year with the Los Angeles-area consumer price index, up to 5%, without a new ballot. This year the cap rose 2.93%, from $412.78. The actual rate rose much less.

The Upgrades Are Paid for Over Ten Years

The report explains why the capital line is so small. The district decided the planned improvements "would cost more than could be conveniently raised from a single annual assessment" and chose to collect for them in installments over ten years. Money not spent in a given year stays in the Capital Improvement Project Fund.

The list adds up to $1,140,000, or $114,000 a year over ten years:

1. Del Prado Playfield, additional pickleball courts with lighting: $650,000
2. Dos Vientos Neighborhood Park, perimeter walking path: $150,000
3. Dos Vientos Community Park, perimeter fence replacement: $135,000
4. Dos Vientos Community Park, picnic area: $75,000
5. Dos Vientos Community Park, concrete paving and curbing at the courts and fields: $55,000
6. Dos Vientos Community Center, office renovation: $40,000
7. Dos Vientos Community Park, sink and BBQ at Picnic Area 2: $20,000
8. Del Prado Playfield, concrete curbing at the softball fields: $15,000

The Community Park takes most of the maintenance budget, but the biggest item on the capital list is somewhere else. The Del Prado pickleball courts make up more than half of the list. The four Community Park items add up to $285,000.

The fund is growing. The report estimates the balance at $466,698 as of June 30, 2026, and $580,698 by June 30, 2027. That's an increase equal to this year's full $114,000 contribution. Neither the report nor CRPD's ten-year capital plan gives construction dates. Treat the list as a queue, not a schedule.

What's Done and What's Next

One project is finished. The report lists a $50,000 resurfacing of the Community Park parking lot as completed in fiscal year 2025-26.

CRPD's adjusted ten-year capital plan names three Community Park items for 2026/2027, its "Year 2." All three are funded through LMD 94-1:

• Shade structure at the archery area, $75,000: the plan says it would support archery programming and picnic reservations
• Sink and BBQ at Picnic 2, $20,000
• Park amenity improvements, $7,500: a playground bulletin board and a bike repair station

The two documents label the $75,000 item differently. The engineer's report calls it "Picnic Area," and the capital plan calls it "Shade Structure at Archery Area." The archery program behind it is real. CRPD held $15 archery sessions for ages 8 and up at the Dos Vientos Community Center on March 7, 2026, covering the basics and skill building.

The pickleball item is the one to follow if you play. For now, courts at Dos Vientos are indoors. CRPD lists three indoor pickleball courts at the Community Center, and availability varies. The fall outdoor schedule, which runs August 31 through October 23, covers Del Prado Playfield and Rancho Conejo Playfield. CRPD's pickleball planning page says design and outreach for more courts will follow once funding is in place. The Dos Vientos capital list now names Del Prado as the site, with a $650,000 estimate.

Using What You Pay For This Month

The open space costs the least per acre, and on Saturday, October 10, 2026, CRPD runs a hike through it that starts at the Community Park. The Western Dos Vientos Loop runs from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m. It's a moderate five-mile route with about 800 feet of elevation gain and loss. CRPD describes the route this way:

"From high on the trails, there are outstanding views of the nearby Dos Vientos residential area, as well as distant vistas including Camarillo, Thousand Oaks, surrounding mountains and open space, a secluded pond, the Pacific coast, and two of the Channel Islands."

Park at Dos Vientos Community Park and meet at its southwest corner. Use the Borchard Road entrance. The route has three street crossings and a short stretch on a roadside trail.

A few other dates from CRPD's fall calendar:

• Monday, October 12, 9:00 a.m.: in-district registration opens for the Fall/Winter 2026 session, which runs November through December. Out-of-district registration opens Monday, October 19 at 9:00 a.m.
• Saturday, October 24, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.: the Haunted Trail and Costume Contest at the Thousand Oaks Community Center, with trunk-or-treat, games and a petting zoo
• Saturday, November 7: Festival de los Muertos at Borchard Community Center in Newbury Park. The event page and the guide's back cover list 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. One inside page of the guide prints 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., so check the time with CRPD before you go.

The Community Center is also running its own programs. CRPD's October 1 recreation update reported that 39 youth came to the center's Back to School Night.

The engineer's report for each fiscal year is posted on crpd.org, and the board takes it up at a public hearing before voting on the levy. This year that hearing was June 4.

At McQueen & Associates, we keep track of what's changing in Dos Vientos, from the parks budget to the next projects on the list, because buyers ask about it and well-kept parks are part of what a home here offers. If you're curious how this neighborhood shows up in your home's value, ask us for a home value estimate and we'll walk you through it.

This article is general information, not legal, tax or financial advice. Consult a qualified professional about your situation.