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MINUTES City Council Sept. 9, 1987 Street Blesener suggested that when an improvement goes by the front of Assessment a corner lot, only the front should be assessed and if the side Policy street is later improved, then the property should be assessed (cont.) 20% of the side frontage. The City Attorney reported that courts look favorablv on different assessment policies. The Attorney stated that the City wants to make sure it adopts a fair assessment policy, however, there is no iron-clad way to make sure all property owners are treated the same. Council then discussed the assessment policy for cul-de-sac lots. Blesener suggested that the front width of a cul-de-sac lot be averaged with the back width, and the result would be the footage assessed to a cul-de-sac lot. The City Engineer reported that there is also the possibility of dividing an assessment equally between the number of cul-de-sac lots on an improvement. Blesener felt that this was acceptable when an developer was putting in an improvement, but not iahen the City puts in an improvement. ~lesener also suggested that a minimun of 75 feet be assessed against a cul-de-sac lot as that is the Code's minimum lot width requirement. Fahey pointed out that the cul-de-sac lot the City recently assessed at its front width was located on a temporary cul-de-sac, and this was the reason Mr. Blesener's formula was not used. Council pointed out that in the case of the Kehn property under the formula discussed for corner lots, Kehn would be assessed 100 feet on Brooks, and 20% of his frontage on Morrison. However, if the Kehn lot is splitable, Kehn would be assessed for 100 feet on Morrison for the splitable portion of his property. Council discussed the fact that the assessment hearing proposed that the corner lots in the Morrison Avenue area be assessed at 220 feet, and felt that whatever the formula calculated the assessment for the corner lots in this area, a cap of 220 feet would have to be placed on the assessment for these lots. It was the concensus of the Council that corner lots should be assessed 100% on the short side, 20% on the long side, and if a lot is splitable, 100% for the splitable portion of the property that meets minimum lot size requirements. However, Collova felt that if a corner lot was splitable, it should not be assessed 20% on the long side as it would be assessed 100% for the splitable lot. Page -13-