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otherwise modify the effect or finality of the Final Assessment Resolution or Final Assessment Roll. Section 4. Definitions. When used in this Ordinance, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: Assessment means a non-ad valorem special assessment imposed by the City to fund the Capital Cost and related expenses of design, engineering, permitting and construction of sanitary sewer facilities serving property on Atlantic Isle and the cost of financing. The Assessment may include any amounts necessary to reimburse the City for funds advanced for the Capital Cost and for interest on any interfund or intrafund loan(s) made for such purposes; any costs of providing notices of hearings or assessments; any costs of collection of assessments, and any charges by the Miami-Dade County Tax Collector or Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser. Assessment Coordinator means the person appointed to administer the Assessments imposed pursuant to this Ordinance, or such person designated by the City Manager. Assessment Plat means the map and/or drawing(s) on file with the City Clerk and open to the inspection of the public depicting the parcels on Atlantic Isle and the sewer laterals planned for construction to serve such parcels. The Assessment Plat as described in this ordinance and in any other official documents related to the Atlantic Isle special assessments is provided solely to meet the requirements of Section 170.04, Florida Statutes, and shall not be considered a plat as defined in Chapter 177, Florida Statutes. Assessed Cost means the portion of the sanitary sewer improvements project costs the City includes in the calculation of the Assessments. Assessed Costs may include, but are not limited to, all expenses that are properly attributable to land acquisition for and the design, construction (including reasonable contingencies for construction cost increases and change orders), installation, reconstruction, acquisition, and renewal or replacement (including, but not limited to, demolition, environmental mitigation and relocation) of Improvements, as defined herein, under generally accepted accounting principles and that are, under such principles, properly chargeable to the capital account of such Improvement. Assessment Roll or Final Assessment Roll means the special assessment roll relating to the sanitary sewer improvements serving property on Atlantic Isle, as approved by resolution pursuant to Sections 10 and 11 in this Ordinance. Benefit Area means the area including all the Parcels served or capable of being served by the lateral sanitary sewer connections constructed on Atlantic Isle. Benefit Unit means the apportionment unit utilized to determine the Assessment for each Parcel. The Benefit Unit for purposes of the Assessments is a lateral sewer connection which provides or is capable of providing sanitary sewer service to the benefited Parcel. Each lateral sewer connection constitutes one Benefit Unit. If two lateral sewer connections are provided to a Parcel with a single property folio number as identified in the records of the Property Appraiser, that Parcel shall be allocated two Benefit Units and shall pay an assessment for each Benefit Unit. City means the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida. 3