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� N � <br />� _ ��'/��� I <br />L - <br />Public Works Department/Engineering <br />emo <br />To: Nea17. Beets, City Manager <br />From: Duane Schwartz, Public Works Director <br />Date: 4/3/2002 <br />R e: Assessment Policy Information <br />We ha�e gathered as much assessment policy information as possible in the past few days to <br />provide the city council with background information as we discussed. Attached to this memo <br />you will find a staff-interpreted summary of the roadway assessment policy for seven <br />surrounding communities. As this information was gathered from several detailed documents, <br />we did not ha�e time to verify the actual application in the city from which it was obtained. <br />Applying assessment policy can vary from project to project and council to council. Also <br />attached are copies of the information we received from the respective cities. We have also <br />included fiom our files a listing of institutional assessment history. <br />The city's assessment policy has evolved over a period of many years. It has been amended <br />several times to provide clarification on issues that ha�e been identified on a wide variety of <br />projects. It is the intent and purpose of the assessment policy to create a system that is fair and <br />equitable to all properiy owners based upon the benefit received. <br />The data indicates the current Roseville assessment policy seems to treat R-1 and R-2 <br />residential propert�es as well as, or better than the surrounding communities. <br />Multi-family and commercial properiy assessment policy varies greatly between the surveyed <br />communities. One common theme is that a11 assess these propertv classes to a higher level <br />than R-1 and R-2 residential, Institutional properties in most cases appear to be treated the <br />same as commercial properties, with the exception of Falcon Heights where this class of <br />properiy is treated equivalent to residential properiy. <br />The information also indicates most communities assess properties to some degree regardless <br />of other funding sources. Roseville appears to be the only community, as compared with the <br />surveyed group, to not assess residential R-1 and R-2 properties on state aid roadways. You <br />will also note that many of the communities appear to assess all properties on county <br />roadways for city project costs. <br />\�...General Correspondence\Duane Schwar��rnemo-Beets-Assess Policy.doc <br />