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MR. HONCHELL: One thing to remember is that any change you make in a lot or a formula is going to affect all the other lots in this particular case, especially because it's 100% assessed. The money will come from those lots you see up on the screen in some manner or other. As you consider changes, you might want to at least keep in mind what these changes will do to the other lots. I don't know what that would mean on your specific alter- natives. One of the other approaches I guess we were thinking of, after talking to the property owner, would be to, as best possible, if the Council did want to make a change, would be to follow the odd lot formula because it may be an imperfect system, but it is at least tried and true for the most part. Rather than start changing dimensions and areas and methods of assessment on several other lots or all of them if you use acreage or square footage, would be to simply say the Council, in this case, would make an interpretation that the side lot for Lot 6 would be 105.3 feet on the north and 124 plus 100 feet on the south. I guess I would say that's more of a flexible interpretation of what is the side lot than simply throwing the side lot formula out. I say this knowing that doing something like that would make a total impact for the watermain assessment and.the paving assessment of approximately $3,000 to that Lot 6. Correspondingly, all the other lots adjacent to the shaded area would more or less pick up a couple of hundred dollars each. If we reduce one by $3,000, the others go up. All of those adjacent to the water line, namely on the cul-de-sac, would go up by another approxi- mately $100 each. In quick numbers you're looking at the lots on the cul-de-sac being $300 higher each lot and those along Fernwood being approximately $200, if this were done. This is just another way. COUNCILMAN JOHNSON: How would the assessment on number 6 then compare to expanded lot 3 or expanded lot 5? MR. HONCHELL: Lot 6 would be slightly over $9,000, Lot 5 would be $12,600, and Lot 3-4 would be around $14,000. I gues's I would say that by square footage, it would be in much closer proportion to the total assessment. Some of those also have some other things - they have some extra water services - but still, in general, that's the way it would end up. COUNCILMAN JOHNSON: I have a feeling that that adjustment (inaudible). It loads unfairly on all the rest of the owners some of the assessment that should probably more properly be on Lot 6. MR. HONCHELL: That's what I'm saying. There's no easy way. I guess as a reaction to the two proposals. the one of average square footage, my reaction would be that you probably would end up loading an awful lot on the other side of Fernwood - namely, 7, 8, 9, 6, etc. 5, in that they're some areas - they have an odd lot formula in reverse. They're wide at the street and narrow in the back. But if you just take total square footage, 4