Before adopting such Ordinance of Intention, the City Council shall order the Board of Public Works to make and file with the City Clerk a report in writing, presenting the following:
(a) Plans and specifications of the proposed improvement and an estimate of the cost and expenses of said improvement; which plans, specifications and estimate shall be prepared by the Board of Public Works for inclusion in said report; a diagram or map showing:
(1) The boundaries of the District proposed to be assessed and the public streets, or other public ways therein, in, or along which such improvement is to be made;
(2) each lot, piece, or parcel of land benefited by such improvement, each of which shall be given a separate number in red ink or other distinctive color upon said diagram. The said diagram, as approved by the City Council shall govern in all details as to the lots, pieces or parcels of land determined to be benefited by said improvement.
(b) A proposed assessment of the total amount of the estimated costs and expenses of the proposed improvement upon the several lots, pieces or parcels of land shown on the diagram referred to above, in proportion to the estimated benefits to be received by each such lot, piece or parcel of land, respectively; provided, that whenever any portion of the costs and expenses of such improvement is ordered to be paid out of the City Treasury, as hereinabove provided, the amount of such portion shall first be deducted from the total estimated costs and expenses of such improvement and the assessment proposed in said report shall include only the remainder of said costs and expenses. Said assessment shall refer to such lots, pieces or parcels of land upon said diagram by the respective number thereon.
Whenever any lot, piece or parcel of land belonging to the United States, or to the State of California, or to the County of Los Angeles, or to the City of Los Angeles, or to any public agent, mandatory of the government, whether federal, state, county or municipal, and being used in the performance of any public governmental function shall front upon the work to be done hereunder or shall be included within the District declared by the City Council in the Ordinance of Intention to be the District benefited thereby and to be assessed to pay the costs and expenses thereof the City Council may, in said Ordinance of Intention, declare that said lots, pieces or parcels of land, or any of them, so owned and in use shall be omitted from the assessment thereafter to be made to cover the costs and expenses of said work and improvement. In the event that said lots, pieces or parcels of land, or any of them, shall by said Ordinance of Intention, be omitted from the assessment, then the total expense of all work to be done shall be assessed upon the remaining lots, pieces or parcels of land lying within the limits of the Assessment District, without regard to such omitted lots, pieces or parcels of land. In the event that the City Council shall, in such Ordinance of Intention, declare that said lots, pieces or parcels of land so owned as aforesaid, or any of them, shall be included in the assessment, or in the event that no declaration is made respecting such lots, pieces or parcels of land, or any of them, then the City shall be liable for such sum or sums as may thereafter be assessed against any such lots, pieces or parcels of land so owned and used, and so included in the assessment by reason of the aforesaid declaration, or such lots, pieces or parcels of land so owned and used respecting which the Ordinance of Intention makes no declaration, which shall be payable by the City out of such fund as the City Council may designate; provided, however, that any sum or sums which may be assessed against any such lots, pieces or parcels of land so owned and used, shall not be payable by the City when such sum or sums are paid by the owner of or the governing body controlling such lots, pieces or parcels of land.
Plans and specifications shall be deemed sufficient with respect to the location, number, kind, or type of trees to be planted and maintained, if such plans and specifications show and describe the approximate location of such trees.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 89,450.