(A) Power to improve streets. The city shall have the power to construct, reconstruct, pave, repair, resurface, widen, provide drainage and gutters and otherwise upgrade all paved and unpaved streets and alleys within its corporate boundaries. Properties benefitting from any such improvement shall be assessed by the city for the total cost of such improvement of such city streets and alleys to standard or for any portion of the cost of such improvement, as determined by the city.
(B) Conditions for improving streets; street paving. All unpaved or substandard streets that are paved or rebuilt or otherwise improved must be constructed to city standards and specifications to include curbs and drainage. The cost of paving unpaved streets will be assessed to and shared between abutting property owners. If an existing paved street does not have curbs and drainage, the cost of bringing that street up to standard will be equitably shared between the city and abutting property owners on either side of the street, as determined by the city. If an existing paved street requires widening, whether it has curbs and drainage or not, the cost of standardizing the street will be shared equitably between the abutting property owners, as determined by the city.
(Ord. 1094, passed 9-8-94)