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ASSESSMENT Costs are distributed per City Code 7.175, and as outlined in the Council adopted hearings official minutes, findings and recommendations and resolution forming the LID. Under City of Eugene assessment policy,100 percent of the assessable improvement costs will be distributed to the abutting property owners with the balance financed by the City. Below are the final assessable unit costs. 21' Paving $6b.721front foot Sidewalk $10.15 lfront foot Cost to City: $133,497.13 flow income subsidy, storm sewer, and street trees} Costs listed below are the estimated assessment costs calculated from the low bid: 21' Paving $ 71.771front foot Sidewalk $ 15.301front foot Cost to City: $87,970 RECOMMENDATION The City Engineer has provided the Hearings Official with a memorandum which outlined the above information and which recommended approval of the assessment as calculated. A public hearing regarding the proposed distx~ct formation was held on February 23,1999. The minutes of this hearing are attached to these Findings and Recommendations as Exhibit "A."Three members of the public, appeared at this hearing. Mr. Jeff Davis, president of the homeowners association for Champignon, testified that the association Board of Directors did not believe that the Champignon development sufficiently benefited from the improvement to justify an assessment. He noted that his Board felt it was more reasonable for the City to assess the homeowners association at the time that Hammock Street was improved. Ms. Norma Ritzman and Xenia McBride testified in opposition to the assessment. The Hearings Official finds the proposed assessment, as it relates to the Champignon Homeowners Association, to be reasonable for the following reasons. First, while only 30+ lineal feet of the Champignon property is adjacent to the improvement, several residents of the development likely use Brickley Road and would benefit from the improvement. Second, the assessment to the homeowners association is limited to the actual length of property contiguous to the improvement and not the full minimum of 60 feet as defined by Eugene Code 7.175.b.(1 }. The balance of the developmeht would be assessed with a Hammock Street local improvement district. Finally, the timing of future improvements to Hammock Street is uncertain and it is likely that the Brickley Road improvement project will benefit the Champignon Homeowners Association for many years prior to the approval of an improvement project on Hammock Street. The Hearings Official finds that the final improvement costs are lower than those quoted at the local improvement hearing and are comparable to other projects of similar size and nature. The Hearings Official further finds that the proposed assessments are calculated in accordance with the Eugene Code and that the project is one for which the assessments are for a local improvement as set forth in ORS 310.140 because: ~ 1 } The assessments do not exceed actual costs; ~2} The assessments are imposed for a Capital Improvement Construction Project which provides a specific benefit to a specific property or rectifies the problem caused by a specific property; Findings and Recommendations far Final Assessment -Job 3549 Wage 2