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Existing Charter: <br />Task Force Proposal: <br />Charter Commission Proposal: <br />described above) any time within 6 months after the <br />hearing. [As noted above, this step is not needed for <br />100% petitioned projects.] <br />After Council receives cost estimate (the equivalent of a <br />feasibility study), public hearing required with notice <br />similar to Chapter 429, except contents are more detailed <br />and mailed notice is two weeks rather than 10 days. <br />[This step is needed even for 100% petitioned projects] <br />After hearing, owners have 60 days to file a petition <br />against the improvement (requires at least the same <br />number who petitioned for the project in a 25% <br />petitioned scenario, majority of owners in a council - <br />initiated scenario). If a petition against is filed, owners <br />who favor the improvement may file a counter -petition <br />within the same 60 -day period. If the improvement is <br />not barred by a petition against, Council may by <br />resolution "proceed on the improvement" at any time <br />within a year after the hearing (subject to the referendum <br />requirement discussed below). [This step is needed even <br />for 100% petitioned projects, except that petitioners can <br />reduce the waiting period to 10 days, as noted above.] <br />The hearing and notice requirements are the same as <br />Chapter 429, except that if more than 50% of the owners <br />abutting streets named in the mailed notice file objection <br />at or before the hearing, the council must hold a special <br />meeting at least 45 days after the first one, and must <br />provide at least 10 days mailed notice of that meeting. <br />The council may adopt a resolution ordering the <br />improvement within six months after the date of the <br />special meeting (by the vote described above), but the <br />resolution is not effective for 30 days after adoption. If <br />more than 50% of the affected owners file objections <br />within that 30 -day period, the improvements are not <br />ordered. <br />The Charter Commission Proposal creates a process <br />significantly different from Chapter 429, the Existing <br />Charter and the Task Force Proposal. It contains these <br />elements: <br />(i) If more than a single public improvement is <br />proposed, the feasibility study must include <br />information on alternatives (including <br />combinations of alternatives); and if the <br />improvement consists of street reconstruction, <br />one alternative must be to do only the street. <br />5 <br />