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ACTION <br />CHAPTER 8 OF CITY CHARTER <br />MINNESOTA STATUTES CHAPTER 429 <br />of waiting period between the hearing and council <br />action. In other words, if 100% of the owners file <br />both an initiating petition and a subsequent waiver <br />petition, the council may order the improvement <br />10 days after the public hearing. <br />B. After resolution: <br />B. After resolution: <br />No council action may be taken for 60 days after <br />The improvement may be ordered by Council resolution <br />the hearing. Within that 60-day period, a petition <br />at any time within 6 months after date of public hearing. <br />against the improvement may be filed by a <br />May be approved by majority vote if the improvement <br />majority of the owners proposed to be assessed. If <br />was initiated by petition signed by owners of at least <br />such a petition is filed, the council shall not make <br />35% in frontage of real property abutting streets named <br />the improvement unless, within the same 60-day <br />in the petition; must be approved by 4/5 vote in all other <br />period, a counter-petition is filed asking that the <br />improvement be made, signed by property owners <br />proposed to be assessed at least equal in number to <br />those who signed the petition against the <br />improvement. Any person whose name appears on <br />a petition to the Council for a local improvement <br />may withdraw his or her name before the petition <br />is presented to the council. <br />cases. <br />If the improvement is not rejected by petition as <br />described above (and not subject to election as <br />described below), and if the "public record of the <br />proposed improvement contains all of the evidence <br />on which the council shall base their decision," the <br />council may by resolution "proceed on the <br />improvement" at any time between 60 days and <br />one year after the conclusion of the public hearing <br />(presumably by majority vote). <br />4 <br />