A. The following public improvements and related acquisition, construction, extension, and maintenance of such improvements are eligible for special assessment within the City as projects approved at the discretion of the City Council as may be authorized pursuant to Minnesota Statutes section 429.021, subdivision 1 and section 459.14, subdivision 7:
1. To acquire, open, and widen any street, and to improve the same by constructing, reconstructing, and maintaining sidewalks, pavements, gutters, curbs, and vehicle parking strips of any material, or by grading, graveling, oiling, or otherwise improving the same, including the beautification thereof and including storm sewers or other street drainage and connections from sewer, water, or similar mains to curb lines.
2. To acquire, develop, construct, reconstruct, extend, and maintain storm and sanitary sewers and systems, including outlets, holding areas and ponds, treatment plants, pumps, lift stations, service connections, and other appurtenances of a sewer system, within and without the corporate limits.
3. To install, replace, extend, and maintain streetlights and street lighting systems and special lighting systems.
4. To acquire, improve, construct, reconstruct, extend, and maintain waterworks systems, including mains, valves, hydrants, service connections, wells, pumps, reservoirs, tanks, treatment plants, and other appurtenances of a waterworks system within the corporate limits.
5. To acquire, improve and equip parks, open space areas, playgrounds, and recreational facilities within the corporate limits.
6. To plant trees on streets and provide for their trimming, care, and removal.
7. To abate nuisances and to drain swamps, marshes, and ponds on public or private property and to fill the same.
8. To construct, reconstruct, extend, and maintain dikes and other flood control works.
9. To construct, reconstruct, extend, and maintain retaining walls and area walls.
10. To acquire, construct, reconstruct, extend, operate, maintain, and promote underground pedestrian concourses.
11. To acquire, construct, improve, alter, extend, operate, maintain, and promote public malls, plazas or courtyards.
12. To acquire, construct, reconstruct, improve, alter, extend, and maintain highway sound barriers.
13. To acquire real property needed for providing, regulating and operating on street or off street parking lanes or areas, to purchase or lease parking meters or other parking or traffic control devices or may construct, or otherwise provide, equip, maintain and operate automobile parking facilities.
B. The City is also authorized by this section, as adopted pursuant to Minnesota Statutes section 429.101, to recover through special assessment the following special charges as a special assessment against the property benefited for all or any part of the cost of:
1. Snow, ice, or rubbish removal from sidewalks.
2. Weed elimination from streets or private property.
3. Installation or repair of water service lines, street sprinkling, sweeping, or other dust treatment of streets.
4. The trimming and care of trees and the removal of unsound trees from any street.
5. The treatment and removal of insect infested or diseased trees on private property.
6. The repair of sidewalks.
7. The operation of a street lighting system.
8. The operation and maintenance of a fire protection system.
9. The City may remove or eliminate public health or safety hazards from private property excluding any structure included under the provisions of Minnesota Statutes sections 463.15 to 463.26.
C. The City, in accordance with Minnesota Statutes section 444.075, subdivision 1a, finance the following projects related to waterworks, storm sewer and sanitary sewer systems through a levy against affected properties:
1. Build, construct, reconstruct, repair, enlarge, improve, or in any other manner obtain these facilities within the corporate limits.
2. Acquire any and all land and easements required for the facilities.
3. Following the adoption of an ordinance under Minnesota Statutes sections 444.16 to 444.21, the City may acquire, construct, reconstruct, extend, maintain, and otherwise improve storm sewer systems and related facilities within the Stormwater District. Stormwater holding areas and ponds within and without the City may also be acquired, constructed, maintained, and improved for the benefit of any such district. The cost of the systems and facilities described in this subsection may be recovered by the tax authorized in Minnesota Statutes section 444.20. (Prior Code § 6-4-2)