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CHAPTER 8 PUBLIC IMPROVEi~IENTS AND SPECL~L ASSESSMEiNTS Section 8.1 Power to Make Improvements and Levy Assessments. The city may make any type of local improvement not forbidden by law and levy special assessments to pay all or part of the cost of such local improvements. The total, of the assessments for any Iocai improvement may not exceed the cost of the local improvement, plus ail costs and e_xpenses connected therewith, including interest. No assessment shall exceed the benefit to the property assessed as measured by the increase in the market value of the property assessed as a result of the local. improvement. Section' 8.2 Application of Charter. Ail local improvement projects shall be carded out exclusively under the provisions of this charter. The term "local improvement" as used in this section shall mean a public improvement financed part'ly or wholly from special assessments. Section 8.3 Assessments for Services. The council may provide by ordinance that the cost of the city services to streets, sidewalks, or other public or private property may be assessed against property benefited and may be collected in the same manner as special assessments. Section 8.4 Local Improvement Procedure. When the city undertakes any local improvement to which the state local improvement code applies, it shall comply with the provisions of that law, except as modified below. The council may by ordinance prescribe the procedure to be followed in making any other local improvement and levying assessments therefore. 8.4.1 Sixty Day Waiting Period. A period of sixty (60) days shall elapse after the conclusion of the public hearing required by Iaw to precede the order/ag of the construction of a local improvement project (the "Public Hearing") before the actual ordering of the local improvement by the council and the council entering into a contract for the locaI improvement construction. 8.4.2 Petition Against the Local Improvement. If the proposed local improvement was initiated by petition of the owners of the real property abutting on the streets named in the petition, and if, within il-fifty (30) days of the conclusion of the public hearing, a petition against such local improvement is filed with the city administrator and which petition is signed by a percentage of the owners of the real property abutting on the streets named in the initiating petition as the location of the improvement which percentage is greater than the percentage of owners who signed the initiating petition, the council shall not make such local improvement at the expense of the said abutting property owners. 8.4.3 Counter Petition in Favor of the Improvement. If within tb. irty (30) days of the filing with the city administrator of a petition against the local improvement as described in Section 8.4.2 above, there is filed with the city administrator a petition in favor of the local improvement, signed by owners of the real property abutting on the streets named in the initiating petition as the location of the improvement, is a percentage greater than the percent of owners who signed the petition against the local improvement, then in such 17 -317-