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specifically, and that such service is necessary to protect the public health, safety, and welfare, does hereby find and determine and declare the need for sanitary sewer improvements as provided by the project to the benefitted property, that such project is necessary to protect the public health, safety, and welfare, and hereby directs that said project shall proceed in accordance with state law. Section 4. That the general nature and extent of the improvements to be provided by the project shall be and is hereby identified as approximately 7,967 linear feet, more or less, of eight (8) inch diameter PVC sanitary sewer line and appurtenances, installed in accordance with any and all applicable city codes, such improvements to be located in those subdivisions generally described as the Cope Addition, Suburban Estates Addition, Golden Acre Addition, and certain tracts of the E. Crow Survey, along Meadowlark Street, Mockingbird Street, Cope Street, Pine Mill Road, Thomas Drive, and Welch Circle in the city limits of the City of Paris. Section 5. That the detailed plans, specifications, and cost estimates for the project, previously authorized by the City Council and submitted to the City Council by the engineering firm of Hayter Engineering, shall be and are hereby in all things approved, ratified, and incorporated herein by reference. Section 6. That the aforesaid project is hereby ordered for construction; that following the acquisition of necessary easements for the installation of the project, as such acquisitions shall be authorized by separate action of City Council, competitive bids shall be taken for the project; and that the project shall be contracted for construction. Section 7. That pursuant to state law, the City Council finds and determines that the benefitted properties as the same are described generally herein, and as are more specifically described in Exhibit A attached here to and for all purposes incorporated herein, are and shall receive an enhancement in value following the construction of the project equal to or in excess of the amount shown in Exhibit A attached hereto. Section 8. That the City Council does hereby invoke and authorize the implementation of the authority pursuant to Subchapter D of Chapter 402 of the Local Government Code to assess a portion of the cost of the project against the benefitted property owners whose properties are enhanced in value as determined herein. Section 9. That the City Council finds and determines, pursuant to Section 402.066 (c) of the Local Government Code, that the application of the frontage foot rule for determining the amount of assessment against each property would result in injustice and inequality as to the individual property owners, due to the distinct nature of the properties, the difference in location of said properties, the relative position of said properties to streets and roadways, the need to extend the necessary sewer laterals to great lengths beyond and away from the actual street surfaces; and the City Council hereby determines it would be fair and equitable to apportion those costs in the proportion it considers just and equitable, taking into account the special benefits in enhanced value to be received by the owners, and adjusting same as to produce a substantial equality of benefits received and burdens imposed by utilizing the tributary area method, on a per acreage basis, as said -4-