A special assessment must be proportionate to the benefit the property receives from the assessment. Highland-Howell Dev Co, LLC v Marion Twp, 478 Mich 932, 933; 733 NW2d 761 (2007). Although this principle of proportionality does not require a "rigid dollar-for-dollar balance between the amount of the special assessment and the amount of the benefit," a disproportionate relationship "between the two would be akin to the taking of property without due process of law."