§ 37-23-101.5 — Determination of special benefits - factors considered

Colorado § 37-23-101.5

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 37: Water and
• Art.: Assessment for Benefits

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(1) The
term benefit, for the purposes of assessing a particular property within a drainage
system improvement district, includes, but is not limited to, the following:

(a) Any increase in the market value of the property;

(b) The provision for accepting the burden from specific dominant property
for discharging surface water onto servient property in a manner or quantity
greater than would naturally flow because the dominant owner made some of his
property impermeable;

(c) Any adaptability of property to a superior or more profitable use;

(d) Any alleviation of health and sanitation hazards accruing to particular
property or accruing to public property in the improvement district, if the provision
of health and sanitation is paid for wholly or partially out of funds derived from
taxation of property owners of the improvement district;

(e) Any reduction in the maintenance costs of particular property or of public
property in the improvement district, if the maintenance of the public property is
paid for wholly or partially out of funds derived from taxation of property owners of
the improvement district;

(f) Any increase in convenience or reduction in inconvenience accruing to
particular property owners, including the facilitation of access to and travel over
streets, roads, and highways;

(g) Recreational improvements accruing to particular property owners as a
direct result of drainage improvement.

Legislative History

Source: L. 75: Entire section added, p. 998, � 5, effective July 1.