Proceedings for making improvements may be initiated by resolution of the City Council or by petition filed with the City Clerk and signed by the owners of lands having at least 50% of the privately owned frontage abutting upon the proposed improvement.
(A) Petition requirements. Said petition must be addressed to the City Council, describe the requested public improvement, contain the signatures of the owners of land having at least 50% of the privately owned frontage abutting upon the proposed improvement, and contain a brief description of the property owned by the respective signers thereof. The genuineness of the signatures on each petition or part thereof must be verified by the affidavit of the circulation. Any such petition shall not be mandatory upon the Council, but shall be advisory only, and in no event shall such petition be deemed jurisdictional.
(B) Council resolution. Irrespective of whether a petition is filed, the City Council may determine to make any public improvement and to defray the whole or any part of the cost by special assessments against property especially benefitted thereby. The City Council shall, by resolution, declare its intention to do so, stating therein the nature and the route or location of the proposed improvement and the land and premises proposed to be included in the special assessment district and assessed therefor.
(C) Preliminary proceedings. Before determining to make any improvements, any part of the cost of which is to be defrayed by special assessment, the City Council shall require the City Manager to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and submitted to the City Council a report which includes: a map or drawing showing the route or location of such proposed special assessment district; plans for special plans and specifications for such proposed improvement; and an estimate of the cost thereof.
(2011 Code, § 3.04.030) (Ord. 169, passed - -1992)