Public Hearing and Levy of Special Assessments for City Improvement Project #10-25; Chameleon Street Improvements

A petition was received from 12 of the 20 property owners having frontage on Chameleon Street on February 2, 2010, and received by the City Council on February 23, 2010.  The petition requested the bituminous paving of Chameleon Street, between 173rd Ave (former CR 63) and 176th Lane, under the City's dirt road elimination policy.  Improvements to this roadway included:

• Regrading the roadway surface to better center it within the existing 66 foot right-of-way.
• Creating a ditch section along the edge of road to better handle surface runoff, including driveway culverts.
• Installation of additional stormwater improvements to convey water to existing and acquired drainage and utility easements.
• Paving a 28 foot wide road; consisting of four inches of class 5 granular base, two inches of bituminous base course, and 1.5 inches of bituminous wear course.

The City Council conducted the public hearing on August 24, 2010.  At that time one resident requested the Council to review the proposed double assessment for their properties.  It was discussed that City policy was to assess by parcel identification number (PIN), and since they had two separate parcels they would be assessed for each.  Further discussion ensued regarding combining the parcels, at which point it was decided that the property owner should work with staff on such a combination.

On October 26, 2010, following expiration of the City Charter required counter-petitioning period, the City Council ordered the project.  At that time the property owner had successfully combined their properties into one parcel (PIN) and Council directed the assessment roll be revised to only assess one share, with the City picking up the other share as opposed to redistributing costs to the remainder of property owners in the area.  This was decided because any redistribution of costs would have exceeded the allowable 10% increase in assessments from what residents were previously quoted in the feasibility study.

Following the close of the Public Hearing adopt the attached resolution which levies the special assessments for Improvement Project #10-25; Chameleon Street Improvements.

The Chameleon Street improvements are financed via the City General Fund (through the dirt road elimination policy), Stormwater Utility Fund, and special assessments to benefiting property owners.  The funding breakdown is as follows:

FINAL COSTS	FUNDING SOURCE
	GENERAL FUND	STORMWATER UTILITY	ASSESSMENTS
$317,866.79	$142,329.40	$                        33,208.00	$142,329.40

Motion to adopt Resolution #11-10-XXX levying assessments for Improvement Projects #10-25; Chameleon Street Improvements.