(a) Hearings: Notices. The Council may from time to time call public hearings to determine whether the public necessity, health, safety, or welfare requires the replacement of an existing aerial plant by an underground plant within designated areas of the City. The City Clerk shall notify all owners of property within such areas, as shown on the last equalized assessment roll, and all utilities concerned by mail, stating the purpose, time, and location of each hearing, not less than ten (10) days prior thereto. Public hearings may be continued from time to time, and all interested parties shall be given an opportunity to be heard. The decision of the Council shall be final and conclusive.
(b) Establishment. If, after any such public hearing, the Council finds that the public necessity, health, safety, or welfare requires the replacement of an existing aerial plant by an underground plant within a designated area, the Council shall, by resolution, declare the designated area to be an underground utility district, order the accomplishment of such replacement, and set a period of time therefor.
(c) Establishment: Notices. Within ten (10) days after the establishment of a district by Council action, the City Clerk shall give notice thereof to all serving utilities and to all owners of real property within the district. Notice shall also be given to all occupants of properties within the district at the location of occupancy.
Such notice shall include the name and number of the district, the description of the district boundaries, a copy of the establishing resolution, and a copy of the provisions of this chapter.
The City Clerk shall mail, postage prepaid, such notice to the serving utilities at the address of the business office thereof; to owners at the addresses shown on the last equalized assessment roll; and to occupants at each street address shown to be in use by records of the building and water offices of the City.
(§§ 3.1 through 3.3, Ord. 1687, eff. June 20, 1968)