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Failure to` give `mailed notice, or any defects in the notice, shall not invalidate the proceedings. At such hearing the city council shall receive any written and or statements, and hear, any petitioners for or against the proposed improvement*. A period of sixty days shall elapse after the public hearing before any further action shall be taken by the council on the proposed improvement. If within such sixty day period, a petition against such improvement be filed with the council, signed by a maiority of the owners proposed to be assessed for the improvement, or, when the im- provemerit has been petitioned for, signed by a number of the owners proposed to be assessed for such improvement at least equal to the number of those who petitioned for the improvement, the council shall not make such improvement at the expense of the property benefited, unless, in the meantime, there be filed with the council a petition asking that the improvement be made, signed by property owners proposed to be assessed for such improvement at least equal in number to those who signed the petition against the j govement; in which event the council may disregard-the petition against the im- provement. Any person whose name appears on a petition to the council for a local im- provement, or on'A petition to the council against a local improvement, may withdraw his/her name by a statement in writing filed with the council before such petition is presented to the council. Subd. 2. Regardless of the provisions in subd. 1, when less than 100 percent of the estimated cost of a proposed local improvement is to be paid for by special assess- ment, within the sixty day period after a public hearing has been held on the proposed improvement, a petition may be filed with the council, signed by a majority of the numbev of electors who voted for mayor in the last regular municipal election, Fro- testing against either the improvement, or the assessment formula, or both. In this event, the council shall not proceed with the improvement, as proposed. Subd. 3. When a proposed improvement is allowed-under the foregoing subdivisions, the council may proceed at anytime between sixty days and one year after the public -26-