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376. to adopt a resolution to proceed with the project and to establish a special assessment district. The City Attorney stated that the Council was empowered to impose a special assessment for local improvements. He stated that two public hearings are required. The first must be held before the project is started to give the property owners an opportunity to speak for or against the improvements, the second public hearing will be held after the project is completed and at that time each property owner will have been advised of the amount of his assessment and may speak to the method by which the amount was calculated. He stated that the required notice had been published in the newspaper and a registered letter had been sent to each property owner whose property abut the proposed mall extension advising them of the approximate amount of the assessment based on the estimated cost of the proposed mall. He presented a proposed resolution for adoption if Council decides to proceed with the project after the public hearing. No one appeared to speak for or against the project. On motion by Mr. Fife, seconded by Mr. Brunton the following resolution was unanimously adopted. WHEREAS,~ this Council has, at public hearings held on April 17, 1978 and May 1, 1978 considered and agreed to the use of federal urban renewal funds in the Vinegar Hill Urban Renewal Project for the extension of the Main Street Pedestrian Mall from First Street to Preston Avenue and to expand the boundaries ~of the urban renewal area to include such portion of Main Street; and WHEREAS, by notices duly advertised in the Daily Progress as required by ~15.1-244 of the Code of Virginia the Council has given notice of its intention to consider improving such portion of Main Street as a pedestrian mall, and to create a special assessment district comprised of the properties abutting such improvements; and WHEREAS, pursuant to such notice, this Council has, at its regular meeting on May 15, 1978., duly conducted a public hearing at which the owners of such abutting properties were heard for or against such improvements; and required by Article 2 of Chapter 7,. Title 15.1 of the Code of Virginia, as amended; now therefore be it RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville: A. That~the construction of pedestrian mall improvements, including but nOt limite~ to, the replacement of sidewalks-and street pavement with special paving materials, the r~placement and expansion of facilities for storm water drainage and the installation of lighting, landscaping, benches, waste receptacles and other permanent amenities, is hereby approved for that portion of Main Street lying between the termination point of the existing pedestrian mall on the east and Preston Avenue on the _west; B. That a special assessment district be created comprising all parcels of land abutting such improvements and that such properties be assessed a portion of the cost of such improvements in like manner as such assessment was imposed upon the properties abutting the existing Main Street pedestrian mall;