(a) Whenever any property owner abutting a dedicated public street objects in writing to the director of public works expressing his or her opposition to the costs attributed to his or her parcel of ground for installing such street lighting facilities or an underground power supply or, in fact, refuses to pay such sum of money within 30 days after having been given final notice of the amount due, in either of such events the director of public works shall establish a date for and conduct a hearing on the protest or refusal to pay to determine whether or not any special or unique circumstance exists with regard to such property that would warrant a modification of the costs chargeable to such property for the facilities, and the director of public works shall reduce such findings and determination to writing, which determination shall be final.

(b) Notice of such hearing shall be given by certified mail to the last known address of the property owner or to that address of the owner shown on the records of the county clerk and recorder.

(c) Any person aggrieved by the ruling of the director of public works shall have ten days in which to make a written appeal to the board of adjustment and appeals, who shall hear the matter on the record established at the hearing before the director of public works.

(d) The decision of the board of adjustment and appeals shall be final, subject only to appeal to a court of competent jurisdiction. Notice of the appeal and docketing of the case in the proper court shall be within 30 days after the final decision of the board of adjustment and appeals, and no appeal shall lie from a decision of the board of adjustment and appeals after the 30-day period. (Code 1979, § 34-65)