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City of Roseville SPECIAL ASSESSMENT POLICY 11/19/12 The purpose of this policy is to be used as a guide by the City of Roseville when preparing 1 assessment rolls, so as to assure uniform and consiste nt treatment of affected properties. It is the 2 general policy of the City of Roseville to assess all affected properties according to this policy 3 without regard to funding source. 4 Special assessments are a charge imposed on pr operties for a particular improvement that 5 benefits the owners of those selected properties. The authority to use special assessments 6 originates in the state constitution which allows the state legislature to give cities and other 7 governmental units the authority “to levy and collect assessments for local improvements upon 8 property benefited thereby.” The legislature confers that authority to cities in Minnesota Statutes 9 Chapter 429. 10 1. Special Benefit Test: The proposed assessmen t shall be equivalent or less than the 11 anticipated increase in market value for prope rties being assessed. Appraisals shall be 12 completed to determine the influence of an improvement project on the value of the 13 properties proposing to be assessed. 14 2. Determining Assessable Frontage: Unless otherwise noted in this document, all 15 assessments shall be calculated using prope rty front footage on the segment of the 16 infrastructure included in the improvement project. The assessment rate shall be 17 determined by dividing the total project co st by the total assessable frontage. The 18 following formulas shall apply for calcula ting the total assessa ble frontage for the 19 improvement project. 20 (a) The assessable frontage shall be 100% of the short side of the lot. 21 (b) Corner and Multiple Frontage LDR1 and LDR2 lots: All corner and multiple 22 frontage LDR1 and LDR2 parcels shall be considered as having 10% of the long 23 side as being assessable footage unless such parcels could be split or subdivided. 24 This is in addition to the short side frontage. 25 (c) Corner and Multiple Frontage Lots (oth er zoning): All corner and multiple 26 frontage lots for other property zoning sha ll be calculated at 10% for the first 150 27 feet of the long side and then 100% for any additional footage. This is in addition 28 to the short side frontage. 29 (d) Odd Lot Formula (all zoning): The odd lot formula shall apply for odd and 30 irregularly shaped lots, which have rear widths that vary by more than 25% in 31 comparison with the front width. The lot will be assumed to have a depth equal to 32 one-half the sum of the two sides and said depth will be divided into the area of 33 the lot to determine the assessable frontage. 34 (e) Lots with more than 4 sides: All lots of more than four sides will be geometrically 35 converted to a four-sided lo t of equal area, then the odd-lot formula as described 36 in (d) will be used to determine the assessable frontage. Where this is not 37 practical, the assessable frontage will be determined by assuming the lot to have 38 an assessable frontage equal to those of th e typical rectangular lots near it which 39 are comparable in overall area and nature. 40 (f) Private Driveway: If a public improvement takes place along a public 41 street roadway with a private driveway that serves more than one property owner , 42 all properties with access to the road public street via the private driveway will be 43