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Exhibit A MYI~TiJTES Local Improvement District Paving, Curbs, Gutters, Sidewalks, Storm Sewers and Street Lighting on Terry Street between Royal Avenue and Barger Drive Job # 2813 July 25, 1995 Public Hearing Hearings Official Milo Mecham convened the hearing at 6;oU p.m. He described the subject matter of the hearing and the procedures to be followed at the hearing. Present at the hearing representing the City of Eugene were Les Lyle, City Engineer; Bud DeSantis of the Eugene Public Works Engineering Division and Jeff Lankston of the Eugene Public works Engineering Division. The City Engineer, Les Lyle, began by providing a brief description of the project and its history. This project provides an important connector route between royal Avenue and Barger Drive. It is especially important as a part of the bicycle routes on the west side of Eugene. The project was initiated in 1994, with the Local Improvement District (LID} being formed on June 24, 1994. The project involved the construction of a 44 foot wide roadway. The project has been completed and the calculations of assessments have been made. Certain properties within the LID were subject to special provisions regarding the assessments, made at the time the local improvement district was formed. Mr. Lyle explained that the varying assessments made on the properties in the LID were based on the proportion of the width of the street that was assessed against the property. The variations in the assessment was based on the use of the property at the time the LID was formed. Some of the properties were outside the city limits, They were included in the LID only after Lane County approved of the proposal to include them. one of the properties in the LID was very narrow and long. For purposes of the LID the council decided to consider a portion of the property to be undeveloped. This would allow a smaller initial assessment against the property, which would be recovered in the event the property became more fully developed. Mr. Lyle also noted that the final recommended assessments were lower than the original projections made at the time the LID was formed, Duly one member of the public attended the hearing. Mr. Arthur Piculell, owner of a parcel on Terry Street within the LID ~TL 17-~4-2o-OQ-Q39~Q}, appeared and challenged the propriety of the calculation of the assessment. According to Mr. Piculell, there is an ambiguity in section 7.175 of the Eugene Code. It is this section that describes the basic method used to establish the amount of the assessment for each property in a local improvement district. Mr. Piculell explained that, as he reads section 7.175 of the Eugene Code, it provides that unimproved residential parcels shall be assessed far a 36 foot wide street, whether or not the street is an arterial, collector or residential street, whereas developed residential parcels are assessed fora 28 foot street width if the street is anon-arterial street