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RESOLUTION No. 6:4.23
RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING AN ALLEY POLICY
(Rescinding Resolution No. 6345)
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BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Richfield,
Minnesota, as follows:.
1. All costs involved in maintaining_an alley will be assessed
against the property abutting the alley.
2. An alley paving project may be initiated on an alley by a
petition signed by the property owners of more than 50 percent of
abutting property.
3. All costs involved in the paving of an alley will be assessed
against the abutting property except that residential property will be
assessed only for the shorter of the two primary sides.
4. The maximum amount to be assessed against residential
properties will be 50 percent of the cost of paving full width of the
abutting alley. However, if the residential property is located in
a block which contains some commercial property, the residential
assessment will be less than 50 percent. In this particular instance,
the commercial assessment will first be levied against the commercial
property in the block and then the residential property will be
assessed a prorata share of the remaining portion of the assessment.
Under no circumstances shall the residential assessment be less than
25 percent of the cost of paving the alley.
5. Commercial alleys will be assessed for three-fourths of the
cost of paving the actual full width of the alley, except that should
the total assessment collected on a block using the aforementioned
procedure amount to more than the cost of the alley, the commercial
assessment will be prorated by abutting footage.
6. The City of Richfield will pay the costs of paving an alley
not abutting assessable property.
7. The type of surface will be chosen at the time the contract
is awarded on the first alley paving project.
8. A minimum of six alleys in one cluster (as defined by the
city engineer) or ten alleys regardless of cluster is required for:
a project.
9. The deadline for the submittal of petitions is February 1st
of each year.
10. The maximum assessment for commercial properties in a block
will not exceed 75 percent of the cost of the alleys to be paved
and the minimum assessment shall be at least 50 percent of .this cost.
11. If a commercial lot has an alley on two primary sides, the
commercial property will be assessed only for the longer of the
two sides.
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Passed by the City Counc:
day of May, 1981.
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_1 of the City of Richfield. this 11th
~ J. Prieb , Ma or`
ATTEST:
S v' K. Bergh, City Cl