Recommendations. Whenever the council decides to make street, sewer, sidewalk, or other public improvements to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessments according to benefits, the council shall by motion declare its intention to initiate such improvement and direct the city engineer to make a survey and written report of such project and file the same with the recorder within the time set forth by the council in the motion. If adequate design data is on hand, the council may direct the city administrator to make the written report. Whether the report is made by the city administrator or the city engineer, it shall be known as the “city engineer’s report” for the purposes of this chapter. Public improvements may be undertaken on petition filed with the council and signed by the owners of two-thirds of the property to be specially affected by the improvement contemplated. Upon the filing of such petition, the council shall forthwith direct the city engineer to make a survey and report in the same manner as if the procedure were undertaken on motion of the council. Such report shall contain:
A. A plat or map showing the general nature, location, and extent of the proposed improvements and the lands to be assessed to pay all or any part of the costs thereof;
B. Plans, specifications, estimates of the quantities of work to be done and the material required and a proposed time table for completion of various phases of the improvement;
C. An estimate of the probable cost of the improvement, including legal, administrative and engineering costs attributable thereto;
D. A recommendation as to the method of assessment to be used to arrive at a fair apportionment of the whole or any portion of the cost of the improvement to the property specially affected, which recommendation shall be in accord with the provisions of Section 3.12.100;
E. An estimate of the unit cost of the improvement to the specially affected properties derived from applying the recommended assessment method to the estimated cost of the improvement;
F. A description of the location and assessed value of each lot, tract or parcel of land, or portion thereof, to be specially affected by the improvement, with the names of the record owners thereof and, when readily available, the names of other owners thereof as herein defined;
G. A statement showing outstanding assessments against property to be assessed;
H. Any other information required by the council. (Prior code § 2.002)