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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 to pay <br /> all or part of the cost of such local improvements.The total of the assessments for any local improvement may not <br /> exceed the cost of the local improvement,plus all costs and expenses connected therewith,including interest.No <br /> assessment shall exceed the benefit to the property assessed as measured by the increase in the market value of <br /> the property assessed as a result of the local improvement. <br /> (Ord.of 1-25-1993) <br /> Sec.8.2.Application of Charter. <br /> All local improvement projects shall be carried out exclusively under the provisions of this Charter.The term <br /> "local improvement"as used in this section shall mean a public improvement financed partly or wholly from <br /> special assessments. <br /> (Ord.of 1-25-1993) <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 public <br /> or private property may be assessed against property benefited and may be collected in the same manner as <br /> special assessments. <br /> (Ord.of 1-25-1993) <br /> Sec.8.4.Local improvement procedure. <br /> When the city undertakes any local improvement to which the state local improvement code,Minn.Stats. <br /> chapter 429 applies,it shall 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 levying assessments <br /> therefor. <br /> 8.4.1 Sixty-day waiting period.A period of 60 days shall elapse after the conclusion of the public hearing <br /> required by law to precede the ordering of the construction of a local improvement project(the"public <br /> hearing")before the actual ordering of the local improvement by the council and the council entering <br /> into a contract for the local improvement construction. <br /> 8.4.2 Percentage of owners required.When the local improvement has been petitioned for by the owners of <br /> not less than 50 percent in frontage of the real property abutting on streets named in the petition as <br /> the location of the local improvement the resolution ordering the local improvement by the council <br /> may be approved by vote of a majority of all members of the council.When there has been no such <br /> petition,the 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 be initiated by petition of <br /> the owners of real property abutting on the streets named in the petition.If,within 30 days of the <br /> conclusion of the public hearing,a petition against such local improvement is filed with the city <br /> administrator which petition is signed by a percentage of the owners of real property abutting on the <br /> streets named in the initiating petition as the location of the improvement which percentage is greater <br /> than the percentage of owners of real property who signed the initiating petition,the council shall not <br /> make such local improvement at the expense of the abutting property owners.For purposes of the <br /> Created: 2024-10-04 12:02:16[EST] <br /> (Supp.No.13,Update 3) <br /> Page 16 of 25 <br />