(a) Upon the petition in writing of persons owning the greater amount of frontage of property abutting upon both sides of any portion of a street, public way, alley, or easement, for any permanent improvement or reimprovement authorized in Section 909.01, Council, by a lawful majority thereof, may after giving notice to the abutting property owners as provided in this article, by resolution or ordinance declare the necessity or convenience of such improvement and order and cause such portions of such streets, alleys, public ways or easements to be graded, regraded, paved, repaved, surfaced, resurfaced, curbed, recurbed, sewered, resewered, permanently improved or reimproved with suitable material, or any one or more of such improvements without the others, as may be determined by Council, to be constructed therein or in such part or parts thereof as Council may determine, and Council may specially assess the entire cost of such improvements, or any part thereof, upon the property abutting on the portions of the streets, alleys, public ways, or easements improved.
(b) Council may also adopt such resolution or ordinance of necessity or convenience and provide for such improvements and the assessing of the costs thereof upon abutting property without such a petition of property owners having first been received, when the resolution or ordinance providing for such improvement is adopted by the affirmative vote of at least three- fourths of the members of Council by recorded vote, after having given notice to abutting property owners as hereinafter in this article provided.
(1978 Code Sec. 25-17.)