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interests of an owner. The Council may also take such other steps • prior to the hearing, including, among other things, the preparation of plans and specifications and the advertisement for bids thereon, as will in its judgment provide helpful information in determining the desirability and feasibility of the improvement. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time and a resolution ordering the improvement may be adopted at any time within six months after the date of the hearing. The resolution ordering the improvement may reduce, but not increase, beyond 10 percent, the extent of the improvements as stated in the notice of hearing. Whenever all owners of real property abutting upon any street named as the location of any improvement shall petition the Council to construct the improvement and to assess the entire cost against their property, the Council may, without a public hearing, adopt a resolution determining such fact and ordering the improvement. Subdivision 2 . Regardless of the provisions in Subdivision 1, when le33 more than 100 10 percent of the estimated cost of a proposed local improvement is to be paid for by opccial assc3smcnt a general tax levy for that proposed improvement, within the oixty thirty 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 number of electors who voted for mayor in the last regular municipal election, protesting against either the improvement, or the assessment formula, or both. In this event, the Council shall not proceed 111 with the improvement, as proposed. Subdivision 3 . When a proposed improvement is allowed under the foregoing subdivisions the Council may proceed at any time between Sixty thirty days and one year after the public hearing on the improvement, unless a different time limit is specifically stated in the resolution ordering the improvement. IIowever, no eent-ract shall be lct in thc event that thc current proposed contract exceeds thc estimated cost by more than ten percent. Subdivision 4 . When a proposed improvement is disallowed under the foregoing subdivisions, the Council shall not vote on the same improvement within a period of one year after the public hearing on said improvement. Section 8 . 05. Assessments for Services. The Council may provide by ordinance that the cost of City services to streets, sidewalks, or other public or private property, as allowed by law, may be assessed against property benefitted and may be collected in the same manner as special assessments. Such costs shall not be deemed to be "special assessments" for the purposes set forth in Section 8. 03 of this chapter.