After the city council has approved the report as submitted or modified, the city council shall, by resolution, declare its intention to make such improvement, provide the manner and method of carrying out the improvement, and shall direct the city manager to give notice of such improvement by two (2) publications one week apart in a newspaper of general circulation within the city and by mailing copies of such notice by registered or certified mail to the owners to be assessed for the costs of such improvement, which notice shall contain the following matters:
A. That a written report on the improvement is on file in the office of the city manager and is subject to public examination.
B. That the city council will hold a public hearing on the proposed improvement on a specified date, which shall not be earlier than ten (10) days following the first publication of notice, at which objections and remonstrances to such improvement will be heard by the council; and that if, prior to such hearing, there shall be presented to the city manager valid, written remonstrances on forms provided by the city of owners of two- thirds (2/3) of the frontage of the property to be specially affected by such improvement, then the improvement will be abandoned for at least six (6) months.
C. A description of the property to be specially benefited by the improvement, the owners of such property, and the estimate of the unit cost of the improvement to be specially benefited, and the total cost of the improvement to be paid for by special assessments to benefited properties. (1996 Code § 12.08.030)