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RESOLUTION NO.
4668
A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE SPECIAL ASSESSMENT
POLICY INVOLVING PAVING, CURB AND GUTTER AND ALLEY PAVING
BE IT RESOLVED bj the City Council of the City of St. Louis Park that
Resolution Number 4497 is amended to read as follows:
1. Commencing with projects to be specially assessed which are
ordered to be constructed August 1, 1972, and thereafter, the per front foot cost
for paving, curb, and gutter projects shall be $9. 00 in order to more adequately
reflect the cost to the City for these improvements, except as provided below.
2. Commencing with projects to be specially assessed which are
ordered to be constructed January 1, 1973, and thereafter, the per front foot
cost for paving, curb and gutter projects shall be, beginning with a per front
foot cost of $9. 00 in 1972 and adding annually thereto, the actual percentage
increase of the total per front foot cost of projects over and above the costs
experienced in the preceding year's projects. Such cost increases to be
computed annually as of January 1st of each year.
3 a. Standard Blocks. A11 paving, curb and gutter projects, for which
no assessment has been approved prior to May 1, 1972, the corner lot shall be '
charged 25% of the side street improvement cost. The remaining 75% of the
side street improvement cost shall be charged equally on a front foot basis to
all frontage, from the corner midway to the next intersection. The 75% balance
is described to be the indirect benefit.
b. Non-standard Blocks. The Assessor, in spreading the
assessment in the following situations may deviate from the Council's formula
in spreading the cost to the extent that benefits assessed are in proportion to
benefits received for each type of improvement and equitably compare with
assessed properties in the improvement project:
(1) Where platting is irregular, including metes and bounds
described properties,
(2) In circumstances where subdividing has caused a
rearrangement at the end of the block,
(3) Where lots or building sites front on a side street contrary
to the regular grid platting,
(4) In circumstances where the distance between two corner
lots is 300 feet or less,
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(5) Where "T" alleys involve lots having the depth of lot
adjacent to the bottom side of the cross "T".
4. All storm sewer projects, for which no assessment has been
approved prior to May 1, 1972, shall not have previous storm sewer assessments
credited to the present storm sewer assessment if such prior assessment was
made prior to January 1, 1950.
Att st:
Ci Clerk
Adopted by the City Council October 16, 1972.
Reviewed for administration:
Approved as to form and legality:
City torney
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