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CHAPTER S <br /> PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AND SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS <br /> Section 8.1 Power to Make Improvements and Levy Assessments. The city may make any <br /> type of local improvement not forbidden by law and levy special assessments to pay all or part of <br /> the cost of such local improvements. The total of the assessments for any local improvement <br /> 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 <br /> measured by the increase in the market value of the property assessed as a result of the local <br /> improvement. <br /> Section 8.2 Application of Charter. All local improvement projects shall be carried out <br /> exclusively under the provisions of this charter. The term "local improvement" as used in this <br /> Section shall mean a public improvement financed partly or wholly from special assessments. <br /> Section 8.3 Assessments for Services. The council may provide by ordinance that the cost of <br /> the city services to streets, sidewalks, or other public or private property may be assessed against <br /> property benefited and may be collected in the same manner as special assessments. <br /> Section 8.4 Local Improvement Procedure. When the city undertakes any local <br /> improvement to which the state local improvement code Minn. Stat. Chapter 429 applies, it shall <br /> comply with the provisions of that law, except as modified below. The council may by <br /> ordinance prescribe the procedure to be followed in making any other local improvement and <br /> levying assessments therefore. <br /> 8.4.1 Sixty Day waiting Period. A period of sixty (60) days shall elapse after the <br /> conclusion of the public hearing required by law to precede the ordering of the <br /> construction of a local improvement project (the "Public Hearing"} before the actual <br /> ordering of the local improvement by the council and the council entering into a contract <br /> for the local improvement construction. <br /> 8.4.2 Percentage of Owners Required. When the local improvement has been <br /> petitioned for by the owners of not less than 50 percent in frontage of the real property <br /> abutting on streets named in the petition as the location of the local improvement the <br /> resolution ordering the local improvement by the council may be approved by vote of a <br /> majority of all members of the council. When there has been no such petition, the <br /> resolution may be adopted only by vote of four-fifths of all members of the council. <br /> 8.4.3 Petition Against the Local Improvement. A proposed local improvement may <br /> be initiated by petition of the owners of real property abutting on the streets named in the <br /> petition. If, within thirty (30) days of the conclusion of the public hearing, a petition <br /> against such local improvement is filed with the city administrator which petition is <br /> signed by a percentage of the owners of real property abutting on the streets named in the <br /> initiating petition as the location of the improvement which percentage is greater than the <br /> percentage of owners of real property who signed the initiating petition, the council shall <br /> not make such local improvement at the expense of the abutting property owners. For <br /> purposes of the foregoing sentence, "owners of real property" shall not include owners of <br /> properties zoned for commercial or industrial uses or owners of properties zoned <br /> 19 <br />