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Adopting City policies governing calculation and annual review of the Right-of-Way Maintenance Assessment.
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WHEREAS, since the early 1900's the City of Saint Paul ("City") has levied assessments against benefiting properties to recover the cost of maintaining public infrastructure in city right-of-way; and
WHEREAS, the City continues to levy an annual Right-of-Way Maintenance Assessment ("ROW Assessment") through its Right-of-Way Maintenance Program to finance the delivery of maintenance services on street and alley right-of-way throughout the city; and
WHEREAS, the calculation of the ROW Assessment is based on a rate structure intended to link the cost of providing maintenance services with the benefits received by properties abutting city streets and alleys; and
WHEREAS the City Council recently conducted three work sessions to review the ROW Assessment and its rate structure, and considered options for revising rates and related frontage calculations for residential, tax-exempt and commercial property types; and
WHEREAS, as an outcome of this review the City Council seeks to establish clear and comprehensive Right-of-Way Maintenance Assessment Policies ("ROW Policies"), attached hereto as Exhibit A, to govern the calculation of the ROW Assessment now and into the future; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Council have asked that the ROW Policies also provide for an annual review of individual properties to ensure that the ROW Assessments are calculated in accordance with said policies, and that the review focus on select citizen participation districts each year, as shown on the schedule attached hereto as Exhibit B, until all properties citywide have been reviewed; now, therefore be it
RESOLVED, that the Mayor and City Council hereby adopt said ROW Policies.
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