Item 6: Ord.on Assess/Garden Way

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resolution authorizing acquisition of needed right of way through the eminent domain process for the Garden Way project. The Lane County Board of Commissioners on December 3, 2003, by Board Order 03-12-3-8 authorized the City of Eugene to assess the nine (9) properties outside the City limits for this project. The Eugene City Council formed the Local Improvement District on April 12, 2004. The project has been completed and final assessments 'have been calculated. The property owners were notified of the pending final Assessment hearing ten (10) days prior to the hearing. PRO,IECT The improvements include a 44-foot wide road with two travel lanes, a center turn lane for a portion of the project with landscaped medians, bicycle lanes, curb and gutter, sidewalks, street lights, a traffic signal, street trees, traffic calming and wastewater and storm water drainage systems. ASSESSMENTS Chapter 7 of the Eugene Code provides that the cost of public improvement projects such as the improvements to Garden Way and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard should be spread among the benefiting property owners, with the City of Eugene absorbing a share of the costs. The City's share of costs come from the portions of the street improvements that do not abut benefiting properties, such as intersections, as well as from the excess street capacity that may need to be installed, and for costs that the city has decided are necessary, but which do not provide as large and direct a benefit as other costs which are assessed to property owners. In this case the total project costs have been determined to be $3,613,813.77. The City share of the project cost, pursuant to the directions in Eugene Code Chapter 7, is $2,873,162.40. The property owner assessable costs are divided among the properties either on a per lot basis, or on a per square foot basis, depending on the directions of Chapter 7 of the Eugene Code. Paving 7- foot (per front foot) $ 71.65 Paving 10-foot (per front foot) $ 102.36 Sidewalk (per square foot) $ 3.90 Wastewater (per square foot) $ 0.27 Wastewater service (per each) $ 3,560.29 Total Assessable Cost $ 740,651.37 Total City Cost $ 2,873,162.40 PROPOSED FINAL ASSESSMENT FOR PAVING, CURBS AND GUTTERS, SIDEWALKS, AND RELATED IMPROVEMENTS ON GARDEN WAY AND ON THE NORTH SIDE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. BOULEVARD Page 2