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MAYOR DEMOS: Anyone else? MR. ALLAN MODJESKI, 3060 Raymond Avenue: You said you were going to enlarge Wilson pond. How would you do that since there is roadway on two sides and industrial property on the other two. Then, number two, I'm a homeowner in the northwest corner which doesn't seem to get much benefit. If there is a formu- lation of how you figure who pays for what, I suggest that people who blacktop industrial areas pay much more than a homeowner who raises grass. The question ~ Dorso down here (inaudible) Dorso filled in ponds. Garrett filled in ponds. Now they come in and say they shouldn't pay for it. They caused it and I have to pay for it. So how will Wilson pond be enlarged, and I think us homeowners have to get a break by people who blacktop, take away the drainage and fill the drainage up. I think this should be taken into consideration when any financial planning is done be- cause us homeowners who raise the grass, utilize the water that's coming down, should get a break unless you by-pass the water and put it into ~7ilson pond. MR. HONCHELL: To take your questions one at a time - how we would be expanding Wilson pond - there's an area to the north that is not being fully utilized for ponding. It's possible by doing some re-sloping and (inaudible) on this as well as raising the roadway - there are two ways to make a pond - dig deeper or make the sides higher. On C-2 and Cleveland it could be raised because as you recall the industrial sides are really quite high. At least our calculators show it's the roadways that cause the spill area wherever that may be. In answer to your second question, the existing formula as it's constituted now takes into account the practical fact that your grass doesn't cause as much run off as an asphalt driveway or parking lot or big roof. That's why a residential parcel has in the past been assessed $250 a lot. Now, typically there are about three lots in an acre which gives you about $750 while industrial land is assessed at $1,600 an acre. The reason is that more than double the water comes off that asphalt and that's the basic procedure of how these assessment rates were estab- lished and I'm sure if the Council should decide to look at it that same type of approach would be followed, recognizing how much water is generated from various types of uses. 9