Politics & Government
Shaker Heights Prepares Two-Year Street Lighting Tax Assessment
Property owners will be assessed 88 cents per front footage for the next two years to pay for street lighting costs.
Shaker Heights City Council is preparing its street lighting tax assessments on property owners for the next two years to help pay for lighting more than 200 streets in the city.
The city splits the cost with property owners on paying the cost of lighting city streets. For the next two-year assessment, the city plans to pay about $100,000 and the other $570,000 will be generated from the tax assessment. The city is only required to contribute 2 percent of the total cost and pay to light intersections.
Property owners will be assessed 88 cents per front footage, meaning property owners pay by how wide their lot is that abuts the street.
The city set an assessment last year, but only sought a one-year rate because energy prices were fluctuating.
Property owners will begin paying the two-year assessment in January 2014.
Council will have to pass an ordinance to levy the assessment.
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