Owners of lots or lands abutting upon any street, avenue or alley within the city representing 3/4 of the front footage thereon may petition the governing body to create an improvement district, so that the district when created will make up 1 continuous or extended thoroughfare or more, without cost to the city. The governing body shall assess the entire cost of any such improvements in any such street, avenue or alley, including intersections of streets or avenues and spaces opposite alleys, against the private property within the improvement district. It shall be the duty of the governing body to create the proper improvement district or districts, which shall be consecutively numbered, and to improve the district and to proceed in the same manner and form as provided for in other paving and improvement districts; provided that the governing body shall have power to levy the entire cost of the improvements of any such street, avenue or alley, including intersections of streets and avenues and spaces opposite alleys, against the private property within the district, and to issue street improvement bonds to pay for the improvements. The bonds shall be issued to cover the entire cost of so improving the streets or avenues, intersections of the streets and avenues, and spaces opposite alleys. If the assessments provided for in this section, or any part thereof, shall fail, or for any reason shall be invalid, the governing body may make other and further assessments upon the lots or lands as may be required to collect from the lots or lands the cost of any improvements properly chargeable thereto, as provided in this section. The governing body shall have the discretion to deny the formation of the proposed district when the area to be improved has not previously been improved with a water system, sewer system and grading of streets. If the governing body should deny a requested improvement district formation, it shall state the grounds for the denial in a written letter to interested parties.
(Prior Code, § 46-72)