Downtown parking assessments shall include the area in the Appendix generally outlined by First Avenue, Eleventh Street, Seventh Avenue and Ninth Street and shall include the following costs.
(A) Assessable costs.
(1) Snow plowing and snow removal of city owned downtown parking lots.
(2) Parking meter removal (labor, equipment and materials needed to remove parking meters).
(3) Zoned parking signs installation (minimum six per block).
(4) Parking zone enforcement (personnel, necessary materials and equipment).
(5) Paint materials and labor for striping parking stalls.
(6) Electricity for lighting of downtown parking lots within downtown parking district.
(7) Surfacing, including necessary seal coating and overlays as determined necessary by City Engineer to maintain hard surface.
(8) Assessment cost including but not limited to City Attorney's and City Engineer's labor for researching and drawing up assessment procedures.
(9) Revenues received by city from issuance of parking tickets shall be used to defray costs.
(B) Assessment formula for downtown parking. The assessments to be levied against properties within the parking district shall be distributed to those properties on the basis of square footage of buildings, lineal footage of parallel and diagonal parking and private off-street parking.
(1) The "assessable unit" shall be determined by taking the building square footage and dividing by 300 square feet (to nearest tenth) and add to the 40 to 50 degree (interior angle) diagonal parking lineal footage divided by 12.5 feet and add to the 25 to 40 degree (interior angle) diagonal parking lineal footage divided by 20.0 feet (to nearest tenth) and add to the parallel parking lineal footage divided by 20.0 feet (to nearest tenth) and subtract from total the number of off-street parking spaces.
40 to 50 Degree 25 to 40 Degree Off St.
Assessable = Bldg. Sq. Ft. + Diag. Prkg. Ft. + Diag. Prkg. Ft. + Par. Prkg. Ft. - Parking
Units 300 Sq. Ft. 12.5 Ft. 20.0 Ft. 20 Ft. Spaces
(Ord. 740, eff. 8-28-89)
(2) The "assessment rate" to be applied against all properties and each individual property shall be equal to "assessable cost" divided by the total number of "assessable units."
(3) Credits for off-street parking stalls.
(a) A credit of one assessable unit shall be given for each off-street parking stall available on any property subject to assessment within the district. Excess credits on a particular property may be applied to other property owned by the same owner.
(b) A credit of one assessable unit shall be given for each off-street parking stall provided by owners of property within the district, which stalls are located in parking lots immediately adjacent to (within one block of) the district.
(c) Off-street parking stall credits are given to the legal owner of property regardless of leased status.
(d) An off-street parking stall shall be considered available provided it is:
1. Accessible by automobile without passage over curbs, through fences, barriers, or locked gates; or is accessible by automobile by passage through gates electronically and/or parking attendant operated;
2. Maintained for the purpose of providing public, customer, employee, or business vehicle parking;
3. Maintained with a gravel or hard surfacing suitable for automobile parking. A suitable surface shall be considered to consist of a minimum of the equivalent of six inches of gravel processed for surfacing use.
(Ord. 754, eff. 4-23-90)
(C) Exclusions. Church properties and properties devoted to residential use, including both single- or multi-family dwelling, shall not be subject to assessment.
(Ord. 619, eff. 3-24-80; Am. Ord. 740, passed 8-28-89; Am. Ord. 754, passed 4-23-90)