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Raleigh staff recommend eliminating property assessments for 17 pending street and sidewalk projects
Summary
City staff urged the City Council to rescind assessment resolutions for 17 pending projects, refund roughly $200,000 in advance payments and stop future assessment-based petition programs, citing low cost recovery and equity concerns.
City of Raleigh staff recommended that the City Council rescind assessment resolutions on 17 pending street- and sidewalk-improvement projects, authorize refunds of advance payments totaling about $200,000, and end the practice of using property assessments to recover costs for future street-improvement petitions.
Bradley Kimbrell, a city staff member presenting the agenda item, told council members that assessments are liens applied to properties to recover construction costs and that rates used to calculate frontage-based charges were last updated more than 20 years ago. Kimbrell said assessments currently recover about 2 percent of actual construction costs and that administrative effort makes collection costly relative to revenue.
The recommendation grew from a 2022 council request to evaluate the city’s assessment and petition programs. Kimbrell outlined three options: proceed with public hearings and assessment roll adoption on 12 completed projects; rescind assessments on eight city-initiated capital improvement projects (CIP) while proceeding on remaining…
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