Whenever the owner of lots or lands abutting upon any street, avenue or alley within the city, representing three-fourths of the front footage thereon, so that such district when created will make up one continuous or extended thoroughfare or more, shall petition the Mayor and Council to make improvement of such street, avenue or alley, including intersections of streets or avenues and spaces opposite alleys, against the private property within such improvement district or districts, it shall be the duty of the Mayor and Council to create the proper improvement district or districts, which shall be consecutively numbered, and to improve the same and to proceed in the same manner and form as herein before provided for in other paving and improvement districts; provided, the Mayor and Council shall have power to levy the entire cost of such improvements of any such street, avenue or alley, including intersections of streets or avenues and spaces opposite alleys, against the private property within such district, and to issue street improvement bonds of said District to pay for such improvements in the same manner and form as provided by statute.
(2005 Code, § 8-302)