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Coldwater council approves special-assessment process for residential sidewalk completion; residents raise fairness concerns
Summary
The City Council opened and closed a public hearing and adopted a resolution advancing a special-assessment program to complete sidewalks in specified subdivisions; property owners questioned assessment calculations and corner-lot costs.
Coldwater City Council on Aug. 11 opened a public hearing and voted to advance the special-assessment process to establish a residential sidewalk maintenance and improvement program for specified subdivisions, prompting questions from property owners about estimated costs and corner-lot billing.
The action moves the city to create an assessment roll and notify property owners of their estimated charges before a subsequent public hearing; if adopted at later steps the assessments would be spread over 10 years. Samantha (city staff) told the council this meeting is the second of four required meetings in the special-assessment process and explained the method used to compute each property’s estimated assessment.
Under the approach Samantha described, city staff used subdivision master deeds and…
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