Chapter 11.12
LOCAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
Sections:
11.12.020 Property included – Enlarged district.
11.12.010 Establishment.
Every ordinance ordering a local improvement to be paid in whole or in part by assessments against the property specially benefited shall establish a local improvement district to be known as “Local Improvement District No. ____”, which shall embrace as nearly as practicable all the property specially benefited by the improvement. (Ord. 126 § 3, 1962).
11.12.020 Property included – Enlarged district.
Unless otherwise provided in the ordinance ordering the improvement, the improvement district shall include all the property between the termini of the improvement abutting upon, adjacent, vicinal, or proximate to the street, avenue, lane, alley, boulevard, park drive, parkway, public place or square proposed to be improved to a distance of not less than 90 feet back from the marginal lines thereof or to the center line of the blocks facing or abutting thereon, whichever is greater (in the case of unplatted property, the distance back shall be the same as in the platted property immediately adjacent thereto); provided, that if the local improvement is such that the special benefits resulting therefrom extend beyond the boundaries as above set forth, the council may create an enlarged district to include as nearly as practicable all the property to be specially benefited by the improvement. The petition or resolution for an enlarged district and all proceedings pursuant thereto shall conform as nearly as is practicable to the provisions relating to the local improvement districts generally except that the petition or resolution must describe it as an enlarged district and state what proportion of the amount to be charged to the property specially benefited shall be charged to the property lying between the termini of the proposed improvement and extending back from the marginal lines thereof to the middle of the block (or not less than 90 feet back) on each side thereof, and what proportion thereof to the remainder of the enlarged district; provided, further, that whenever the nature of the improvement is such that the special benefits conferred on the property are not fairly reflected by the use of the aforesaid termini and zone method, the ordinance ordering the improvement may provide that the assessment shall be made against the property of the district in accordance with the special benefits it will derive from the improvement without regard for the zone and termini method. (Ord. 126 § 4, 1962).