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8 MAYOR DEMOS: Highway 8 in Roseville is far in excess of 32 feet. It's probably more than double that width. It may be in the country, but in Roseville it far exceeds it. MR. WALTER B. PARSONS, SR., 2730 North Oxford: I have resided there for more than 27 years. The Council precipitated a city-wide program of widening and curb and gutter nature three or four years ago and this led to a tremendous turnout at several public hearings and I remember a day in August when Fairview School was packed, largely by people opposed to this on a city wide basis. There was an attempt to justify this by savings in maintenance. I just (inaudible)my realtor (inaudible) any realtor said any upgrading because of curb and gutter and street improvement quote would be insignificant and wouldn't be the kind of thing you'd mention to a potential customer over the telephone or in showing the property. At the time that the city-wide program was proposed three or four years ago, the Council and their counsel declined to be interested in any kind of a survey. I personally proposed a professional survey to get a real sampling of the opinions of the people. I think later (inaudible) volunteers were sought for service on a committee to look into the thing, on which I applied. I stated in my main approach would be to try to put out some kind of survey flyer along with our sewer bills where we could get a good coverage of the city and not just those that came to the hearings. I wasn't appointed to the committee, incidentally. As I understand it, one of our Councilmen, Mr. Kehr, was an instigator of the survey and perhaps had a lot to do with the survey which perhaps had something to do with the city not going ahead with that. Now we will have a wave of these spot improvements. I checked Witil a member of the Public Works Department today and from what he said, this is the biggest influx of petitions for this work. MAYOR DEMOS: We have been doing them every year. . This is the largest number this year, but it has increased every year since 1976. MR. PARSONS: So this is the big one this year. I think there's a tendency when we have approximately 75% assessed in the General Fund and 25% assessed to the individual property - abutting property - that you have a kind of a situation in a small way like you have sometimes when you think about - let's get it from Washington. It doesn't come out of our pocket so we have a chance for the Council to demonstrate some courage by voting some of these down where at least there isn't a tremendous preponderance of favor in the neighborhood. You have a chance for the Council to not get us into a position where everybody has a beef because he's going to pay for three-fourths of it for everybody else in the village anyway. I'd like to make a pitch that this is not the kind of decision