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<br />percentage is greater than the percentage of owners of real property who signed the initiating <br />petition, the council shall not make such local improvement at the expense of the abutting property <br />owners. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, "owners of real property" shall not include <br />owners of properties zoned for commercial or industrial uses or owners of properties zoned <br />residential greater than ten acres in size based on zoning classifications ineffect at the date of <br />such petition, or owners of non-homestead real property greater than one acre in size. <br />8.4.4Counter petition in favor of the improvement.If within 30 days of the filing with the city <br />administrator of a petition against the local improvement as described in section 8.4.3 above, <br />there is filed with the city administrator a petition in favor of the local improvement, signed by <br />owners of real property abutting on the streets named in the initiating petition as the location of <br />the improvement, in a percentage greater than the percent of owners of real property who signed <br />the petition against the local improvement, then in such event the council may disregard the <br />petition against the local improvement and proceed with the local improvement. <br />8.4.5Petition against council initiated improvement.If the local improvement was initiated by <br />council resolution without an initiating petition and, within 60 days of the conclusion of the public <br />hearing, a petition is filed with the city administrator against such local improvement and which <br />petition is signed by 60 percent or more of the owners of real property proposed to be assessed <br />for and benefited by the local improvement, the council shall not make such local improvement at <br />the expense of the benefited property owners. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, "owners <br />of real property" shall not include owners of properties zoned for commercial or industrial uses or <br />owners of properties zoned residential greater than ten acres in size based on zoning <br />classifications in effect at the date of such petition, or owners of non-homestead real property <br />greater than one acre in size. <br />8.4.6Withdrawal of name from petition.Any person whose name appears on a petition to the <br />council in favor of a local improvement, or on a petition to the council filed against a local <br />improvement, may withdraw his/her name by a statement in writing filed with the city administrator <br />before such petition is presented to the council or in person at a city council meeting before the <br />city council accepts said petition. <br />8.4.7Filing of petition with city council.All completed petitions filed with the city administrator as <br />described herein shall be presented to the council by the city administrator at the council's next <br />regularlyscheduled meeting. <br />8.4.8One year before any further action.When a proposed local improvement is disallowed <br />pursuant to the petition process described in the foregoing sections, the council shall not vote on <br />the same improvement within a period of one year after the public hearing on said improvement. <br /> <br />Sec. 8.5. - Computation of time. <br />Where the performance or doing of any act or matter is required by this Charter, and the period of time <br />is prescribed and fixed by this Charter, the time shall be computed so as to exclude the first and include <br />the last day of the prescribed or fixed period of time. When the last day of the period falls on a Saturday, <br />Sunday, or a legal holiday, that day shall be omitted from the computation. <br /> <br />Sec. 8.6. - Sewer and water projects. <br />This section applies to any local improvement project completed after January 1, 1996, which includes <br />extending urban services (sewer and/or water) to an existing home or neighborhood. <br /> Page 2 <br /> <br />