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RUG. 12.2003 2:37PM NO.575 P.4/8 Policy No. 5.080 Page 3 4. Multi-unit tenant residential property benefiting from street lighting shall be billed or assessed on an equivalent residential unit basis. The total front footage of the multi-unit property shall be divided by the typical front footage of a residential property and rounded to the next whole number to determine the number of assessment units to be assigned to the property . 5. Street lighting may be installed in existing residential subdivisions or commercial areas. Such installations will be initiated as detailed in Section IV of this policy. 6. Standard residential and commercial streetlight types will be adopted by the City Council. All new street lighting must be consistent with the adopted City standards. Streetlight selection within the adopted standard list of fixtures shall be done through the neighborhood or commercial representative process as detailed in Section IV of this policy. 7. Variations to the City standard streetlight types will be allowed only by City Council action. Extra costs associated with variations to the City standard, both installation and 0 & M, will be the responsibility of the benefiting properties. 8. All street lighting designs shall consider industry standards, safety, unifollllity. lighting intensity and cost. 9. Installation of any telecommunications devices on streetlights shall be subject to the review and approval of the City CounciL B. Major Roadway Street Lighting Special funding mechanisms have been established for street lighting along major roadways within the community. The following additional requirements shall, therefore, be applied along Major Roadways. 1. Installation costs for street lighting along maj or roadways may be funded through a combination of partial assesSIl.lents to the adjacent property owners and General Tax. General Tax shall be Used to help finance major roadway street lighting since the streetlights benefit both the adjacent property owners and the traveling public in general. 2. 0 & M costs for street lighting along major roadways may be funded through a combination of the Streetlight Utility and General Tax. 3. The amount of General Tax participation in the installation and 0 & M costs shall be determined based upon the number oflanes on the roadway. The following is a summary of the share of assessments and General Tax for various roadway designs.