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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I CASE # Continue Public Hearing on 2002 Street Maintenance Program Improvement Projects 02-11 and 02-12 By: Steven J. Jankowski, City Engineer Background: The public hearing held on September 24, 2002 for the two overlay projects, 02-11.and 02-12 was continued until tonight's meeting. Testimony at the previous meeting suggested that the assessable project cost of IP 02-11 should be divided among more than 143 units, since PIN 28- 32-25-11-0012 (the south side of 145t~ Avenue) has 930 feet of frontage. The unit assessment project for 02-12 (MSA Streets) is determined by that for 02411. Thus, this issue affects both overlay projects. Although the City's current street assessment policy is based on the number of units rather than frontage, there is some past precedence for using frontage in rare circumstances. In the 1993 program, 161st Avenue between Variolite and Armstrong was overlayed. The City (Central Park) and one property owner (then Federal Cartridge) comprised the entire ownership on the north frontage of the half mile street. Application of the formal policy would have resulted in an unusually high assessment for the size of lots receiving benefit. In this case, the assessment would have been $1400 per unit when similar sized lots on other projects were being assessed $423 that year. In this instance, one half of the assessable project cost was assessed based on frontage to the two properties on the north side. While the remaining assessable half was divided among the number of units on the south side of the street. If the Council wished to consider a reduction in the unit assessment cost, the 930 feet frontage of the above pin number would be the equivalent of between 4.4 units, based on the average frontage (204 ft.) of the remaining lots on 149th Avenue. Alternatively, the 930 feet would represent the equivalent of 3.2 units when based on the average lot frontage width of the entire project, 296 feet. Perhaps it would be fair to consider PIN 28-32-25-11-0012 to have an equivalent frontage of four lots, and the assessable project cost divided equally by 146 units. This would result in a per unit assessment of $756.01, a reduction of $15.86 over the proposed assessment. The City Attorney has advised that the Council may adopt the assessment role of all parcels excepting PIN 28-32-25-11-0012 so that new notice of assessment can be provided to that owner. Recommendation: Staff's recommendation is that the assessments for IP 02411 and 02-12 remain $771.90 as initially proposed. The chief reason for this recommendation stems from the fact that PIN 28-32- 25-11-0012 does not cause the unit assessment to be unusually high relative to similar projects. In fact, adjusting the assessment based on the above analysis would result in only a two or three percent difference. There are numerous cases where single lots have approached or exceeded several times the average lot frontage in past street programs and have been charged to a single assessment. -45-