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Resolution approving the 2025 paving assessment resolution
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BE IT RESOLVED, By the Common Council of the City of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin that the following be and hereby are the policies for 2025 construction pertaining to utility and street improvements and corresponding rates:
(1) Due to the relative value of the benefits conferred upon different types of properties by the public improvements described herein, assessments for original permanent pavement of streets and alleys shall be at the following rates per assessable foot based upon property classification:
A) $98.00 for one or two family residences, churches, schools, public parks ("single family rate")
B) $122.50 for multiple family residences of three or more (1-1/4 x single family rate)
C) $147.00 for business or commercial property (1-1/2 x single family rate) D) $196.00 for industrial property (2 x single family rate)
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A) A pavement improvement that terminates only partially abutting a parcel of land, shall have only such prorata portion assessed in the year that the Final Resolution is adopted by the Common Council
B) On streets that Federal and/or State Aid is not available, the rate of assessment may be adjusted to recover 60% of the paving costs.
C) On streets where the City does not have maintenance jurisdiction, the rate of assessment may be adjusted to recover 60% of the paving costs abutting each parcel.
D) On streets where sidewalks are to be newly constructed on one side only, in conjunction with a street scheduled for improvement, the cost of the sidewalk plus 25% for engineering and overhead may be prorated by total street frontage and added to the basic assessment for each property abutting said improvement or on both sides of that portion of said street.
(2) Assessments for reconstruction of a permanent pavement shall be at the following rates per assessable foot (average width) for one or two family residences (other classes proportioned as in (1) abo...
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