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20 <br />intersecting street to the extent of fifty (50) per cent of the frontage <br />thereon or thirty (30) feet, whichever is less. <br />(iii) In the event a street in front of a corner lot, used as a single <br />lot, has been paved and the street alongside of such lot is to be <br />paved, the lot shall be exempt from assessment for the paving <br />improvement alongside of such lot to the extent of forty (40) per <br />cent of the frontage on such street or sixty (60) feet, whichever is <br />less. <br />The exemption herein provided shall apply only in <br />areas zoned for residential use or for apartments, and such <br />portion of the cost of construction as would otherwise be <br />assessed against such corner lot shall be borne by the city. <br />(b) Sidewalks. The total cost of constructing or reconstructing sidewalks <br />shall be assessed against the lots and parcels of land abutting on that <br />side of the street upon which the improvement is made, according to their <br />respective frontages thereon by an equal rate per foot of such frontage, <br />the lots within a block being deemed to abut upon a sidewalk although the <br />latter extends beyond the lots to the curb line of an intersecting street; <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 />sidewalk improvements in accordance with the following formula, the <br />amounts or distances therein shown being maximum amounts or <br />distances which may be 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 sidewalks, such lot shall be exempt from <br />assessment for the sidewalk improvement alongside of such lot to <br />the extent of twenty (20) per cent of the first one hundred fifty <br />(150) feet thereof or thirty (30) feet, whichever is less. Thereafter, <br />upon-the construction of sidewalks on the intersecting street, on <br />which such lot abuts, such lot shall be exempt from assessment <br />for the sidewalk improvement on the street to theextent of fifty (50) <br />per cent of the frontage on such street or thirty (30) feet, <br />whichever is less. <br />(ii) In the event that the street alongside of a corner lot, used as a <br />single lot, has sidewalks and sidewalks are constructed on the <br />intersecting street, such lot shall be exempt from assessment for <br />the sidewalks on the intersecting street to the extent of fifty (50) <br />per cent of the frontage thereon or thirty (30) feet, whichever is <br />less. <br />(iii) In the event a street in front of a corner lot, used as a single <br />lot, has sidewalks and sidewalks are to be constructed on the <br />intersecting street, the lot shall be exempt from assessment for <br />the sidewalk improvement alongside of such lot to the extent of <br />forty (40) per cent of the frontage thereon or sixty (60) feet, <br />whichever is less. <br />The exemptions herein provided shall apply only in <br />areas zoned for residential use or for apartments, and such <br />