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File #: 19-1166    Version: 1 Name: 6/17/19 Resolution No. 3 Dhu Varren Special Assessment Sidewalk Improvement Project - District No. 53
Type: Resolution/Public Hearing Status: Passed
File created: 6/17/2019 In control: City Council
On agenda: 6/17/2019 Final action: 6/17/2019
Enactment date: 6/17/2019 Enactment #: R-19-301
Title: Resolution No. 3 Establishing a Public Hearing for the Dhu Varren Improvements Project
Attachments: 1. Dhu Varren Sidewalk Improvements Project.pdf

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Resolution No. 3 Establishing a Public Hearing for the Dhu Varren Improvements Project

Memorandum

Attached for your review and approval is Resolution No. 3 establishing the date for the Public Hearing on the ---------------- Dhu Varren Sidewalk Improvements Project;  Special Assessment District No. 53, File No. 19-0881.

 

The improvements include constructing a new sidewalk within the Dhu Varren Road Right of Way, on both the north and south sides of Dhu Varren Road, from Omlesaad Drive east to the Nixon Farms developments.  The length of sidewalks installation is approximately 1,250 feet on each side, for a total length of 2,500 feet.

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Prepared by:                      Mark Perry, City Assessor

Reviewed by:                      Tom Crawford, Financial Services Area Administrator and CFO

Approved by:                      Howard S. Lazarus, City Administrator

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Whereas, The City Council had directed the City Assessor to prepare a Special Assessment Roll for the purpose of defraying that part of the cost of the following described public improvement to be defrayed by Special Assessment: construction of a new sidewalk system along the north and south side of Dhu Varren Road between Omlesaad Drive and the Nixon Farm developments, Dhu Varren Improvements Project - Sidewalk Special Assessment District No. 53, File No. 19-0881;

 

Whereas, The City Assessor has prepared said Special Assessment Roll and has the same on file in the Assessor’s office with his certificate attached thereto; and

 

Whereas, The Michigan Tax Tribunal requires appearance and protest at the public hearing in order to appeal the amount of the special assessment, if an appeal should be desired;

 

RESOLVED, That said Special Assessment Roll be on file in the office of the City Assessor and shall be made available for public examination;

 

RESOLVED, That City Council of the City of Ann Arbor hereby sets a public hearing for July 15, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as it may be convened in the City Council Chambers, 2nd floor, Guy Larcom Municipal Building, 301 E. Huron Street to receive public comment on the proposed Dhu Varren Sidewalk Improvements Project;  Special Assessment District No. 53, File No. 19-0881, as described in the attachment to this Resolution;

 

RESOLVED, That the City Clerk is hereby directed to publish and mail said notice in accordance with City Code 1:289; and

 

RESOLVED, That such notice be in substantially the following form and shall include a copy of the Special Assessment Roll that is attached to this Resolution.

 

 

NOTICE OF REVIEW OF

 

Dhu Varren Improvements Project; Sidewalk Special Assessment

Roll No. 53

File No. 19-0881

 

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE That City Council has caused to be prepared a Dhu Varren Road Improvements Project; Curb and Gutter & Sidewalk Special Assessment District No. 53, File No. 19-0881, for the purpose of defraying the private property’s share of the cost of the following improvement described as follows:

 

Construction of a new sidewalk system within the Dhu Varren Road Right of Way, on both the north and south sides of Dhu Varren Road, from Omlesaad Drive east to the Nixon Farms developments;

 

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE  That the property to be included in said Special Assessment District is as follows (See attachment);

 

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE That said Special Assessment Roll is on file in the Office of the City Assessor and is available for public examination;

 

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE That City Council will meet July 15, 2019, in the Council Chambers, 2nd floor, Guy C. Larcom Municipal Building at 7:00 p.m., for the purpose of reviewing said Special Assessment Roll. Any person aggrieved by the Special Assessment Roll or the necessity of the improvement may file his/her objections thereto in writing prior to the close of the hearing; and

 

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE That appearance and protest at this hearing is required in order to appeal the amount of the special assessment to the Michigan Tax Tribunal if an appeal should be desired. A property owner or party in interest, or his or her agent, may appear in person at the hearing to protest the special assessment or may file his or her appearance by letter delivered to the clerk prior to the close of said hearing and his or her personal appearance shall not be required. The property owner of any person having an interest in the subject to the proposed special assessment may file a written appeal of the special assessment with the Michigan Tax Tribunal within thirty days after confirmation of the special assessment roll if that special assessment was protested at this hearing.