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• CHAPTER 8 PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS AND SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS Sec. 8.01. Power to make Improvements and Levy Assessments. The city may make any type of public improvement not forbidden by law and levy assessments to pay all or any part of the cost of such improvements as are of a local character. The total assessments for any local improvement, including all costs and expenses connected therewith, with interest charges not to exceed the actual cost to the city. No assessment shall exceed the benefits to the property. . Sec. 8.02. Assessments for Services. The council may provide by ordinance that the cost of city services to streets, sidewalks, or other public or private property may be assessed against property benefited and collected in the same manner as special • assessments. . Sec. 8.03. Local Improvement Procedure. When the city undertakes any local improvement to which the state local improvement code applies, it shall comply with the provisions of that law and with the public informational provisions of Section 8.04 of the Charter. The council may by ordinance prescribe the procedure to be followed i_nmakngany other local_improvement and levying_assessments therefor, providing that such procedure is consistent with the other provisions of this Charter. Sec. 8.04. Public Informational Provisions. For each proposed public improvement, the city shall mail a description of the proposal to the owners of the real property to be benefited. Such description shall set out the purpose, scope, construction timetable, proposed means of financing, estimated total cost, the basis for allocation • of cost among different classifications of property, the extent to which undeveloped property is to, be assessed on the basis of its land use classification, the estimated