Council may levy and collect special assessments against benefited properties for any portion of the cost connected with public improvements in the City, including:
(1) Streets, public property and City easements to be improved by construction, reconstruction, widening, resurfacing, repair and/or replacement of pavement, sidewalks, curbs, roadside ditch/swale, restoration seeding and mulching, street trees, decorative street lights, driveway approaches, roof drain pipes, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, sanitary sewer house connections, water mains, water service connections, water service house laterals and special items and all necessary and incidental appurtenances thereto as determined and itemized by City Council in the Resolution of Necessity for the project;
(2) Pedestrian canopies and malls, pedestrian walkways, on street and off street parking facilities; and
(3) Other public improvements as provided for by the general laws of the State or by resolution or ordinance enacted by Council.
The special assessments for these improvements shall be levied in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 925.03, except that special assessments levied for improvements undertaken pursuant to Ohio Revised Code Chapter 729 shall be levied in accordance with the procedures set forth therein. The amount, rate or method of determining the amount or rate of special assessments for certain types of public improvements and the allocation between the property owners' and the City's portions of the cost for these improvements may be provided for by separate ordinance or resolution. Except in cases in which a petition provides otherwise, the City's portion of the total cost of the public improvements shall not be less than the amount required by law. (Ord. 1992-23. Passed 4-8-92.)