POSTED: Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 11:02 am

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

Municipalities Special assessments A recreational trail is not a local improvement for which a municipality may levy special assessments. “The Hildebrands successfully rebutted any presumption of the validity of the assessment and showed that the primary purpose of the trail—to complete the trail system in Winnebago county—confers a general, not local, benefit under the law. [...]