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<br /> <br />CHAPTER 8. - PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AND SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS <br /> <br /> <br />Sec. 8.1. - Power to make improvements and levy assessments. <br />The city may make any type of local improvement not forbidden by law and levy special assessments <br />to pay all or part of the cost of such local improvements. The total of the assessments for any local <br />improvement may not exceed the cost of the local improvement, plus all costs and expenses connected <br />therewith, including interest. No assessment shall exceed the benefit to the property assessed as measured <br />by the increase in the market value of the property assessed as a result of the local improvement. <br /> <br />Sec. 8.2. - Application of Charter. <br />All local improvement projects shall be carried out exclusively under the provisions of this Charter. The <br />term "local improvement" as used in this section shall mean a public improvement financed partly or wholly <br />from special assessments. <br /> <br />Sec. 8.3. - Assessments for services. <br />The council may provide by ordinance that the cost of the city services to streets, sidewalks, or other <br />public or private property may be assessed against property benefited and may be collected in the same <br />manner as special assessments. <br /> <br />Sec. 8.4. - Local improvement procedure. <br />When the city undertakes any local improvement to which the state local improvement code, Minn. <br />Stats. chapter 429 applies, it shall comply with the provisions of that law, except as modified below. The <br />council may by ordinance prescribe the procedure to be followed in making any other local improvement <br />and levying assessments therefor. <br />8.4.1Sixty-day waiting period.A period of 60 days shall elapse after the conclusion of the public <br />hearing required by law to precede the ordering of the construction of a local improvement project <br />(the "public hearing") before the actual ordering of the local improvement by the council and the <br />council entering into a contract for the local improvement construction. <br />8.4.2Percentage of owners required.When the local improvement has been petitioned for by <br />the owners of not less than 50 percent in frontage of the real property abutting on streets named <br />in the petition as the location of the local improvement the resolution ordering the local <br />improvement by the council may be approved by vote of a majority of all members of the council. <br />When there has been no such petition, the resolution may be adopted only by vote of four-fifths <br />of all members of the council. <br />8.4.3Petition against the local improvement.A proposed local improvement may be initiated by <br />petition of the owners of real property abutting on the streets named in the petition. If, within 30 <br />days of the conclusion of the public hearing, a petition against such local improvement is filed <br />with the city administrator which petition is signed by a percentage of the owners of real property <br />abutting on the streets named in the initiating petition as the location of the improvement which <br /> Page 1 <br /> <br />