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the exempt zones are re -numbered as Section 8.04. This corrects an apparent typo in Ordinance <br />03-14.1 <br />Section 8.02. Improvement Procedure. <br />Subdivision 1. Procedures applicable to all improvements. <br />A. Before recommending any improvement project to the City Council, the city <br />engineer shall hold a neighborhood meeting to discuss the project. <br />B. At kaANot less than ten days prierbefore to the neighborhood meeting, the <br />city engineer shall notify all affected property owners of the meeting by email, fax, text message, <br />personal service, first class mail, or equivalent method, personally addressed to the individual <br />property owner. [Editorial comment: language modified to match Minn. Stat. § 429.031, subd. <br />C. At the neighborhood meeting the city engineer shall describe proposed work <br />on the existing improvements, plus any additional improvements being considered. <br />D. Up -t., 10% of the cost of woft. on cxist„1g impioveti,may b Jp.ially <br />ass ss to the apiopcity owucis. [Editorial comment: percentage language moved into <br />Section 8.01, subdivision 3.] <br />Subdivision 2. Work on existing improvements. Subject to the requirements of <br />Subdivision 1, work on existing improvements may be specially assessed in accordance with <br />Minn. Stat. Chapter 429 as amended. [Editorial comment: state law reference left in, because <br />that Chapter has a long history and is well -understood. Its amendments tend to be minor. If this <br />simply referred to any state law, it would open the procedure up to unknown complications. <br />Quoting Minn. Stat. Chapter 429 here, or incorporating its wording could create problems if the <br />state law is amended and the charter conflicts. Tying the assessment of Existing Improvements <br />to Chapter 429 matches the intent expressed by the Charter Commission. <br />Subdivision 3. Consent to additional improvements. <br />A. The city engineer shall bring a consent form or forms identifying each of the <br />proposed additional improvements to the neighborhood meeting described in Subdivision 1 <br />above. The consent form(s) shall have spaces for affected property owners to oi <br />otherwisesign their names to indicate their approval for some or all of such additional <br />improvements. <br />B. .... <br />additionthimprovementsr ffthc owners ref 70% or more of the affected property owners <br />consent to a specific additional improvement consent, that additional <br />improvement shall be considered an existing improvement for purposes of Subdivision 2 above. <br />C. If fewer than 70% of the tally ufaffected property owners consents does not <br />to a specific additional improvement -or, that additional <br />improvements may not be specially assessed unless the special assessment procedure in <br />Subdivision 4 below is followed. [Editorial comment: language cleaned up as requested, to <br />clarify and eliminate the word "tally".] <br />Subdivision 4. Additional improvements without consent. <br />A. Additional improvements must either (1) receive the consent of at least <br />twenty-five percent (25%) of the affected property owners, or (2) be authorized by a four-fifths <br />