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RESOLUTION FOR STREET IMPROVEMENT
AND SPECIAL ASSESSMENT.
WHEREAS, based on the petitions of at least 75~ of the owners of the
real property abutting the streets hereinafter described; and, in the opinion
of the Council of the City of Clermont, Lake County, Florida, a necessity
exists requiring the clearing, grading, filling, raising, paving, curbing, and
draining of the streets hereinafter described in said City; and,
WHEREAS, in the opinion of said Council the real property abutting and
adjacent to said hereinafter described streets will be especially benefited
thereby, and the owners of said abutting and adjacent property will be fully
compensated for the improvement costs by the enhancement of the value of
their respectively owned real property affected by said improvement; and,
the cost of said improvement to each of said property owners will, in the
Council`s opinion, be equitable and just in proportion to said increased value;
therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of said City that the following described
streets in said City be cleared, graded, filled, raised, paved, curbed, and
drained:
DE SOTO STREET lying East of Disston Avenue and
West of Scott Street;
and,
JUNIATA STREET lying East of Disston Avenue and
West of Scott Street;
A.11 as represented on the Official Map of the City of
Clermont, filed 2/4/26 and recorded in Plat Book 8,
pages 17 to 23, inclusive, Public Records of Lake County,
Florida,
and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by said Council of said City that it is the
opinion of said Council that the cost of clearing, grading, filling, raising,
paving, curbing, and draining said streets will be equitable and just to the
respective owners of the real property lying adjacent and abutting said streets,
and is warranted under a necessity, which exists as well as under the petitions
for said improvement signed by at .least 75% of the owners of the real property
abutting and adjacent to said streets; and, the cost of said improvement on
said streets shall be paid as follows: (a) by the owners of al.l real property
adjoining, contiguous, abutting, adjacent, and bounding on said streets to
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be cleared, graded, filled, raised, paved, curbed, and drained (intersections
excluded) under a special assessment on al.l of said real property equal to
2/3rds of the total cost; and, (b) 1/3rd plus cost of intersections, if any, to
by paid by said City from the general improvement fund. Said special assess-
ments shall be due and payable in cash to the City on or before 30 days after
said special assessments shall stand approved and confirmed, and thereafter
shall bear interest at 8~o per annum, payable annua.l.ly, until fully paid. How-
ever, any property owner may pay same on or before 5 years, together with
interest at 6% per annum, payable annually together with 1/5th of the original
principal, provided said owners give the City their promissory note evidenc-
ing said improvement indebtedness payable, both interest and principal, in
the above manner (prior payments may be made without pena.lty), but said
special assessment lien shall remain in full force and effect until all sums
due under said note have been fully paid. The total estimated cost of the
above described part of Desoto Streets is $1, 302.00, and of the above des-
cribed Juniata Street is $1, 302.00.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the plan adopted by said Council to
be used for defraying the costs of said improvements as applied to the owners
of the real property which abuts and adjoins said respective above described
streets shall be according to the front-foot plan and rule, unless the appli-
cation of this plan and rule, in Council's opinion, be unjust and unequal, or
result in individual cases in assessments in excess of specific benefits
received from such improvements, then the Council sha1.1 adopt such rule
of apportionment, as shall effect a substantial equality between said owners,
considering the benefits received by and burdens imposed on said owners
and their respective property.
ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Clermont, Lake County,
Florida, at its adjourned Regular Meeting held on February 19, 1963.
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