(1) Except for paving projects where a petition is required by the Charter, the City Council may initiate a local improvement without a petition. When the City receives a petition for paving that conforms to the requirements of Section 29(2) of the Charter, the petition shall be promptly filed in the office of the City Recorder. No action by the Council is required to receive and file the petition. Once a petition is received, it is binding on the signers and a request by a petition signer to remove his or her name from the petition shall have no legal effect. The petition shall be valid for a period of one year from the date it was received by the City. If the Council does not adopt an ordinance ordering the improvement before the petition expires, the petition shall be void. Two or more separate petitions for contiguous improvements may be combined and treated as a petition for a single project.

(2) A deferred improvement agreement shall be treated as a petition for a local improvement district, except that a deferred improvement agreement shall be recorded in the Official Records of Jackson County and shall not expire unless otherwise specifically provided in the agreement or by statute.

(3) Except in the case of arterial street improvements described in Section 29(3) of the Charter, remonstrances do not affect the legal authority of the Council to proceed with a local improvement.

Remonstrances may be negated by a non-remonstrance agreement.