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assessed to the affected property owners. �... Subdivision 2. Work on existing improvements. Subject to the requirements of Subdivision, work on existing improvements may be specially assessed in accordance with Minn. Stat. Chapter 429. Subdivision 3. Consent to additional improvements. A. The city engineer shall bring a consent form or forms identifying each of the proposed additional improvements to the neighborhood meeting described in Subdivision 1 above. The consent form(s) shall have spaces for affected property owners to initial or otherwise indicate their approval for some or all of such additional improvements. B. The city engineer shall tally the consents received for each of the proposed additional improvements. If the owners of 70% or more of the property to be specially assessed for a specific additional improvement consent, that additional improvement shall be considered an existing improvement for purposes of Subdivision 2 above. C. If the tally of consents does not meet paragraph B above, the additional improvement or improvements may not be specially assessed unless the special assessment procedure in Subdivision 4 below is followed. Subdivision 4. Additional improvements without consent. A. Additional improvements must either (1) receive the consent of at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the affected property owners, or (2) be authorized by a four-fifths (4/5) majority vote of the City Council. B. Consideration of the improvement project may then proceed in accordance with Minn. Stat. Chapter 429, through the public hearing on the project. Then a period of sixty (60) days shall elapse after the public hearing before any further action shall be taken by the Council on the proposed improvement. C. Affected property owners opposed to additional improvements may, within this sixty-day period, file with the city clerk a petition or written objection to any or all of the additional improvements. The City Council shall may not specially assess any additional improvement which is objected to by the greater of (a) 25% of the affected property owners, or (b) one more affected property owner than signed consents to the additional improvement(s), then the City Council may specially assess such additional improvement(s) only after obtaining approval of a majority of the voters voting on the question at a general or special election. The ballot shall generally describe the proposed additional improvement(s), the estimated principal amount of any bonds to be issued to finance the public improvement(s) and the estimated percentage of total debt service on the bonds expected to be paid from ad valorem taxes. D. If the voters do not approve additional improvement(s) and issuance of bonds therefor at an election required by paragraph C above, the provisions of Minn. Stat. § 475.58, subd. la shall apply. Section 8.03. (As provided in City Council proposal 03-14.) Section 8.04. (As provided in City Council proposal 03-14.)