ANAHEIM

To ensure that millions of dollars in public improvements to the Anaheim resort are maintained each year, the City Council is moving toward forming an assessment district to share the costs. The council on Tuesday introduced an ordinance that establishes procedures for adopting a Resort Area Maintenance District. The district would pay to maintain improvements--from landscaping and sidewalks to decorative tree lighting--that will give the tourist strip an ambience to reflect a premier destination place, city officials said. The total assessment for fiscal year 1999-2000 is $2.5 million. Resort area property owners would share the cost, according to the proposal.