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ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES & POLICY <br />City of Pequot Lakes, Minnesota <br />Prepared with assistance by Widseth, Smith, Nolting <br />Adopted February 7, 2006 <br />INTRODUCTION: <br />Any project to be specially assessed will be done so in accordance with Minnesota <br />Statutes, Chapter 429, Local Improvements, Special Assessments. <br />Realizing that each project is unique, yet wanting to stay as consistent as possible, the <br />City Council will apply this policy along with any project- specific modifications that may <br />be called for on a project -by- project basis. <br />PROPERTIES TO BE ASSESSED: <br />These are generally the benefiting, abutting properties to the improvement, but will be <br />determined by the City Council. <br />DEFINITIONS: <br />Front footage shall be considered the narrow part of the 1p atted lot without regards to the <br />orientation of the house or ownership boundaries. <br />Side lot footage shall be considered the longest part of the 1p atted lot without regard to <br />the orientation of the house or ownership boundaries. <br />A Parcel will generally be the lot or lots owned by one owner with one structure that <br />`-' requires one sanitary sewer service line and one water service line. Parcels with multiple <br />structures requiring service and undeveloped land will be split into an appropriate number <br />of parcels on a project -by- project basis. <br />L <br />New Project shall be any improvement to an area where the proposed level of <br />improvements did not exist prior to the proposed project. <br />Reconstructed Project shall be any improvement that replaces or upgrades a similar <br />type of improvement already in place prior to the existing proposed project. <br />Residential property shall be single - family residential use only. <br />Commercial property shall be all uses other than single - family (i.e. commercial, multi- <br />family, industrial). <br />COSTS TO BE ASSESSED: <br />These will be determined by the City Council and will usually include construction, <br />engineering, legal, easement/land acquisition, administrative, and funding costs. <br />These costs will be assessed to the properties in accordance with the following: <br />Page 1 of 3 <br />