Local improvement
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
By common usage, especially as evidenced by the practice of courts and text-writers, the term "local improvements" is employed as signifying improvements made in a particular locality, by which the real property adjoining or near such locality is specially benefited, such as the improvement of highways, grading, paving, curbing, laying sewers, etc.
Illinois Cent. R. Co. v. Decatur, 154 111. 173, 38 N. E. 626; Rogers v. St. Paul, 22 Minn. 507; Crane v. Siloam Springs, 07 Ark. 30, 55 S. W. 955 ; New York In Ins. Co. v. Prest (C. C.) 71 Fed. 816.