Mayor and Council April 20, 1979

parcel of land where, in order to give some relief the Municipality pays in excess
of a certain total frontage. The problem arises that on regular size residential
lots most parcels pay for their sixty vr more feet of frontage and the corner lots
are always faced with the prospect of paying for 100 feet. An example of this is
shown on the Essex Improvement Plan for this. year and if you refer to the map
attached you will see that the properties on the north side of the street are all
going to be paying the 100 foot maximum. It is true that if the improvement program
is carried on to the frontage streets, for example, Inverness and Hamilton in this
case, these corner lots will have paid their full levy and will not be charged
additional amounts, however, all corner lots are in the unique position of having
to pay their full 100 foot maximum. Reducing the maximum to, for example, 66 feet
would help to get around this problem. It might make the local improvement method
more acceptable.

Sixty~six feet as a maximum is suggested because it does cover the situation where
there is a house on two 33 foot lots, however, any similar frontage could be con-
sidered. If the 66 foot maximum is adopted it would reduce the property owner's
contribution and in the case of the Essex and Newberry projects planned for this
year the recoveries are as. follows:

Essex

100 Foot Maximum 66 Foot Maximum

Estimated Cost SU seen ll $83,280. $83,280.
Property Owners Cost ;
Per Front Foot $13.75 $13.75

Total Property Owners Share 19,552. 15,621.

City Share 63,728. 67,659.
76% 80%

Newberry

Estimated Cost $53,220. $53,220.

Total Property Owners Share 19,115. 17,713.
City Share 34,105. 35,507.
64% 67%

You will note that the City's share in the case of the Essex Local Improvement
rises from 76% of the total cost to 80% of the total cost and on Newberry from
64% to 67%. -

We are in the process of preparing the information to send out to the owners on
these two projects and perhaps Council would wish to discuss this further before

we proceed.

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