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19 <br />public expense for streets of the same kind, and such excess shall be considered <br />the cost thereof. In determining the cost of any of the improvements authorized <br />by this section, the council shall include therein the interest paid on the cost of <br />the improvement during the period of construction. The determination of the <br />council as to the total cost of any improvement shall be conclusive. <br />(14) Having determined such total cost, the city council shall thereupon make a <br />preliminary assessment as hereinafter set out in this section. Such preliminary <br />assessment shall, however, be advisory only, and shall be subject to the action <br />of the council thereon as hereinafter set out in subsection (17) of this section. <br />The preliminary assessment shall be made on the basis hereinafter set out in this <br />subsection for the classes of improvements indicated; provided, that if the <br />petition, or the resolution, in thosecases where the improvement was ordered <br />made without petition, specified that there should be specially assessed against <br />the abutting property a smaller proportion of the cost of any improvement than is <br />hereinafter specified in this section, then there shall be assessed against the <br />abutting property only such proportion of the cost of the improvement as was <br />specified in the petition or in the resolution. <br />(a) Street paving. The total cost of any street paving improvement, <br />exclusive of so much of the cost as is incurred at street intersections and <br />the share of street railways or railroads, shall be specially assessed <br />against the lots and parcels of land abutting directly on the street paved, <br />according to the extent of their respective frontages thereon, by an equal <br />rate per foot of such frontage. The cost of that part of the paving required <br />to be borne by a street railway or railroad, which paving is done by the <br />city after default by the street railway [or railroad] in making the same as <br />hereinbefore provided in this section, or which is done by the city by <br />contract with the railway or railroad as provided in subsection (12) of this <br />section, shall be assessed against the street railway or railroad, and the <br />assessment shall be a lien on all of the franchises and property of the <br />street railway or railroad company, and may be collected by sale of such <br />property and franchises as is provided in subsection (23) of this section; <br />provided, further, that in case of a corner lot, used as a single lot, the <br />council may provide by ordinance for the city to bear a part of the cost of <br />paving in accordance with the following formula, the amounts or distances <br />therein shown being maximum amounts or distances which may be <br />reduced by the ordinance: <br />(i) In the event that neither of the streets abutting a corner lot, <br />used as a single lot, has ever been paved, such lot shall be <br />exempt from assessment for the paving improvement alongside of <br />such lot to the extent of twenty (20) per cent of the first one <br />hundred fifty (150) feet thereof or thirty (30) feet, whichever is <br />less. Thereafter, upon the paving of the intersecting street on <br />which such lot abuts, such lot shall be exempt from assessment <br />for the paving of the street to the extent of fifty (50) per centof the <br />frontage on such street or thirty (30) feet, whichever is less. <br />(ii) In the event that the street alongside of a corner lot, used as a <br />single lot, is paved and the intersecting street is to be paved, such <br />lot shall be exempt from assessment for the paving of the <br />