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MINUTES City Council Sept. 9, 1987 Street Fahey noted that to assess on a per unit basis would be unfair to Improvement a single-fam ily homeowner with 75 feet of frontage if that homeowner Policy was assessed the same as a property owner with 220 feet of frontage. (Cont.) Fahey noted that the amount of the assessment for the condominium unit may be an advantage of living in multi-family housing. However, Fahey noted that there are disadvantages as well. Scalze noted that the condominiums have to pay the whole bill if improvements are needed for their internal street system. Scalze felt it was an unfortunate situation and pointed out that the Demont property is splitable. Scalze pointed out that there is no good reason for putting multiple housing across the street from single- family, however, there was nothing the City could do at this point. fahey stated that the City must strive for consistency in its assessment policies and the precedent is to assess according to road frontage. It was the concensus of the Council not to change the assessment as levied for the Demont improvement. Dupre Fahey reported that the next assessment for consideration by the Supplemen- Council is the supplementary assessment for the Norm Dupre property tary for $500 for the installation of a silting fence. Assessment TomHorwath, City 4Jeed Inspector, reported that he was instructed by Agenda the City Clerk to have a silting fence put up on the Dupre property Item No. 8 due to erosion problems from the Dupre property onto the Costa property. Horwath also reported that he ordered some noxious weeds cut on the Dupre property. The bill sent to Mr. ~upre by the contractor was in the amount of $500, however, the bill was not itemized and only refers to erection of the silting fence. Horwath reported that he sent three letters to Mr. Dupre requesting that the weeds be cut before he hired a contractor to do the work. The City Engineer reported that he inspected the fence and it appears to be a silting fence to him. Fahey stated that the question is whether or not the fence was necessary to keep erosion off the Costa property. The City Engineer stated that he inspected the property and could see no erosion from the Dupre property onto the Costa driveway. Fahey reported that Mr. Dupre claims that the weeds which were cut were not weeds, but alfalpha. The Weed Inspector disagreed and reported that the weeds were noxious weeds. Page -7-