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the same person or entity owns more than one parcel affected by a local improvement, that person or entity may sign an objection or petition onto once; and (c) for the purpose of identifying recipients of any notice under this Chapter, owners are determined in accordance with Minnesota Statutes, Section 429.031, subdivision 1. Subdivision 3. The City may undertake any local improvements not forbidden by law and levy special assessments b pay all or any cart of the cost of such local improvements. The principal amount of special assessments for ariv local improvements shall not exceed the cost of the improvement including all design, financing and related costs, and shall not exceed the benefit b the property determined in accordance with state law. Subdivision 4. Local improvements shall be carried out exclusively under the provisions of this Charter, except to the extent otherwise provided in Section 8.02. Section 3. That Chapter 8 of the Lino Lakes City Charter be amended by adding thereto a new Section 8.02 to read as follows: Section 8.02. Local Improvement Procedure. Subdivision 1. Local improvements shall be carried out in accordance with state law, except as provided in this Section. Subdivision 2. If more than 50 percent of the owners of the real property abutting on the streets named in the mailed notice of the improvement hearing under Minnesota Statutes, Section 429.031, subdivision 1 sign written objections regarding the local improvements, and the such objections with the city clerk Prior to the improvement hearing or present such objections to the Presiding officer at the hearing, then after the hearing the council shall schedule a special meeting b be held at least 45 days after the date of the hearing. At least 10 dans prior to the date of the special meeting, the city shat[ publish notice of the special meeting and mail notice of the special meeting to all owners who received the initial notice under Section 429.031, subdivision 1. Such 'published and mailed notice shall include all the information provided in the initial .mailed notice, along with a statement as to the number and percentage of affected owners Who filed obiections at or before the hearing. At the special meeting, the council shall hear additional testimony on behalf of any objecting property owners, and rnav consider further written or oral testimony from appropriate city officials and other witnesses, as to the nature of the local improvements, the advisability of proceeding with such local improvements, the proposed financing for such local improvements, any proposed amendments to the 'plans or financing for such local improvements, and the methodology used to calculate individual special assessments for such local Subdivision 3. A resolution ordering the local improvements (as such improvements may have been amended in response to the hearing or special meeting