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of <br />• <br />essential to the public welfare but fail to provide the special benefit necessary for <br />the imposition of a valid assessment.' <br />Development of Special Assessments <br />If the County elects to fund an average of $1,000,000 annually from the local <br />infrastructure surtax, special assessments as a source of revenue are proposed <br />to fund $1,130,467 of the remaining project costs. The previous sections of this <br />chapter provided an analysis of four primary sources of funding to finance the <br />initial beach restoration project costs, this section provides an example of how <br />special assessments can be used by the County as a project cost allocation <br />method to fund approximately $1,130,467 over the five year project <br />implementation period. <br />An analysis of the cost allocations to individual properties for each beach sector <br />is based on distributing $358,510 to Sector 2, $220,632 to Sector 3. $106.942 to <br />Sector 5 and $444,382 to Sector 7 to provide $1,130,467 in revenue to fund the <br />beach restoration project costs. Assessments were computed based on a <br />distribution of costs according to the degree of benefits within the Sector. As an <br />example, special assessments of $3,735 for a single family residence with 55 <br />front feet, $6,074 for a single family residence with 110 front feet and $18,223 for <br />a 330 foot parcel at the south terminus of Sector 2 are proposed. Similarly, <br />special assessments are typically $1,557 to $2,412 for single family residences, <br />with condominium complexes ranging from $3,750 to $14,062. The Disney <br />2For example, in Crowder v. Phillips, <br />146 Fla. 440, 1 So. 2d 629 (Fla. 1941)Crowder v. Phillips, 146 Fla. 440, 1 So. 2d 629 (Fla. 1441), a special assessment for tte <br />establishment and maintenance of a hospital was found to not afford a special or peculiar benefit to the real property assessed. The <br />court reasoned that the hospital provided benefits to the entire community because of its availability to any person but that no <br />logical relationship existed between the construction and maintenance of the hospital and the assessed property. Additionally, in <br />Whisnant v. Stringfellow, <br />50 So. 2d 885 (Fla. 1951)Whisnanl v. Stringfellow, 50 So. 2d 885 (Fla 1951), an assessment for the county health unit was held to <br />\� be invalid In that it benefited everyone in the county, regardless of their status as property owners. <br />96-aaQ4l182REPORTlOW M601 WatKmE <br />55 <br />