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Athens City Code

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Contents16-109 Petitions

16-109 Petitions

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  1. (1) Abutment districts. Abutment districts are available for residents on any existing street and may include streets, sidewalks, sanitary sewers and storm sewers.
  2. (2) Conservation districts. Conservation districts shall be determined by a housing analysis for urban renewal under the direction of the planning commission. Abutting property owners in conservation districts will be required to improve their houses or property as recommended by the housing analysis.
  3. (3) Requests by petition. All requests for improvements under the abutment district or the conservation district shall be made by petition to the city council on petition forms prepared and furnished by the city.
  4. (4) Limitation of petitions. No petition will be considered unless the owners of 51 percent of the footage represented sign the petition. No petition shall be considered by the city council for the full proposed improvement of less than one block of a street except in case of storm sewers. The term "block" means that part of a street between two intersecting streets. Petitions for sidewalk improvement shall be separate from other improvements.
  5. (5) Factors of considering petitions by the city council. The following factors shall be considered by the city council when considering each petition for street improvements:
    1. (a) Time of filing petition with city manager.
    2. (b) Classification of streets proposed to be improved in the city street system.
    3. (c) Percentage of development of lots on streets proposed to be improved.
    4. (d) Estimated unit cost of the proposed improvement.
  6. (6) Assessment and charges. Assessments shall be payable in cash, or, if any property owner should so elect and give notice to the fact in writing to the city, such property owner shall have the option and privilege of paying the assessments in five equal installments, such installments to bear interest at the rate of six percent per annum from the date of the confirmation of the assessment roll.

(Code 1972, § 12-406; Code 1995, § 16-406)