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4 4. Publicly owned properties, including, but not limited to, municipal building sites, schools, parks, County, State, and Federal building sites, but not including public streets and alleys, are regarded as being assessable on the same basis as if such property were privately owned. The rate of assessment will be calculated utilizing the commercial formula. 5. Revenue sources for these types of improvements will be many, including, but not limited to assessments, MSA Funds, infrastructure replacement funds, bonded indebtedness and general tax levies. 6. Special Cases. It is recognized that these rules cannot be applied indiscriminately and variations shall be permitted or encouraged when strict adherence to the rules obviously violates the Special Benefit Principle as specified in Section II, Item 3. SECTION III SPECIFIC POLICIES Project Initiation and Hearing Process This section described the initiation of improvement projects and the administration required to receive final City Council action, pursuant to the requirements of Minnesota Statutes Chapter 429. A. Project Initiation 1. By Petition: Citizen petition forms for initiating a street improvement will be provided by City staff upon request of property owner(s). Such petitions circulated by the affected property owners shall bear the signatures of property owners of not less than 35% of the affected frontage as measured on a lineal footage basis. When projects are initiated through this process, the costs of doing engineering feasibility studies and associated project consideration costs may be borne by the property owner(s) so petitioning. A deposit may be required of the petitioners prior to commencement of the study to cover the costs of same if construction does not proceed. If the project proceeds through construction and assessment, those costs will be considered project costs and any deposit made would be credited accordingly to the depositors.