(A) In general. Public improvements are divided into three classes specified in the following divisions (B), (C) and (D) below according to their respective benefit to the whole city, to property specially served by the improvement and taking into account past city practice.
(B) Class A.
(1) Class A improvements are those which are of general benefit to the city at large, including:
(a) Public buildings, except a building which is part of an improvement described in one of the following divisions (B)(1)(b), (B)(1)(c) or (B)(1)(d) below;
(b) Any public park, playground or recreational facility;
(c) The installation and maintenance of street lighting systems; and
(d) Any improvement not described in M.S. § 429.021, subd. 1, as it may be amended from time to time.
(2) Any such improvement shall be financed from general city funds and not from special assessments.
(C) Class B. Class B improvements are those which are of both general benefit and special benefit to abutting or nearby property. Class B improvements include:
(1) Trunk water mains larger than six inches;
(2) Trunk sanitary sewer mains larger than ten inches;
(3) Permanently surfacing arterial streets as defined in division (C)(4) below;
(4) Resurfacing by a bituminous overlay over an existing permanently surfaced street;
(5) Interceptor storm sewers; and
(6) The construction of off-street parking facilities.
(D) Class C. Class C improvements are those which are primarily if not exclusively of benefit to property abutting or in the area of the improvement, including:
(1) The construction of water mains no larger than six inches in diameter;
(2) The construction of sanitary sewer mains no larger than ten inches in diameter;
(3) The construction of curbs and gutters;
(4) Permanently surfacing residential streets as defined in division (D)(5) below;
(5) Resurfacing by a bituminous overlay over an existing permanently surfaced street or the replacement of existing curbs and gutter;
(6) Storm sewers of a local nature; and
(7) Sidewalks in areas not otherwise included in special sidewalk districts.
(E) Financing Class B and C improvements. It is the policy of the city to finance Class B and C improvements by the methods prescribed in §§ 33.33, 33.34 and 33.35 of this chapter. The apportionment of the cost between benefitted property and the city at large and the method of levying assessments prescribed in those sections shall be followed in each case unless the Council, by resolution, finds that because of special circumstances stated in the resolution, a different policy is necessary or desirable in the particular case. Any local improvement described in M.S. § 429.02, as it may be amended from time to time, and not placed in Class A, B or C by this section shall be financed as the Council determines to be most feasible and equitable in each case.
(Prior Code, § 2.73) (Ord. 72, Third Series, effective 7-20-1989; Ord. 179, New Series, effective 1-19-1979)