Notwithstanding the methods of assessment provided in RCW 35.44.030, 35.44.040 and 35.44.045, the city or town may use any other method or combination of methods to compute assessments which may be deemed to more fairly reflect the special benefits to the properties being assessed. The failure of the council to specifically recite in its ordinance ordering the improvement and creating the local improvement district that it will not use the zone and termini method of assessment shall not invalidate the use of any other method or methods of assessment.
RCW 35.44.047
Other methods of computing assessments may be used.
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Tiffany Family Trust Corp. v. City of Kent (2005)
Most recently applied in 179 Wash. App. 917 - Hasit, LLC v. City of Edgewood (March 2014)
1969 ex.s. c 258 s 7.
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