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26.OS least equal in number to those who signed the petition against the improvement: in which event the Council may disregard the petition against the improvement. Any person whose name appears on a petition to the Council for a local improvement, or on a petition to the Council against a local improvement, way withdraw his/her name by a statement in writing filed with the Council before such petition is presented to the Council. Subdivision 2. Protest Petition. Regardless of the provisio,is in Subdivision 1, when less than 100 percent of the estimated cost of a proposed local improvement is to be paid for by special assessment, 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 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 with the improvement, as proposed. Subdivision 3. Limitations, When a proposed improvement is disallowed under the foregoing subdivisions, the Council may proceed at any time between sixty days and one year after the pubic hearing on the improvement. However, no contract shall be let in the event that the ' current proposed contract exceeds the estimated cost by more than 10 percent. Subdivision 1. Reconsiderations. When a proposed improvement is disallowed under the 7oregoing subdivisions, the Council shall not vote on the same improvement within a period of one year after the public hearing on said improve- ment. Subdivision 5. Petition By All Owners Whenever all owners of real property abutting upon any street named as the location of any improvement shall petition Chu Council to construct the improvement and to assess the entire cost against their property, the Council may, after a public hearing, as provided in Chapter 8 of the Home Rule Charter, adopt a resolution determining such facts and ordering the improvement. 26.06 Ipprovements, Petition. When any petition for the making of any public improvement or in opposition to any public improvement as providea far in this Code, is presented to the Council, the Council shall, by resolution, determine whether or not the petition has been signed by the required percentage of owners of property affected thereby, or as to the sufficiency of said petition.