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MAYOR DEMOG: Anyone (~lsc that '.vishes -Co be heard? If not, I "\'iill close th", [)l1bli hearing. COUNCILI'JIAN CUR:,::'EY: It I S occurred to me tha t the cost v had this street been put in at the time the sewer was put in. like the gentleman was talking about - the cost probably would have been more to the property owner than it is now even though this is luany years later because of the ne,-} assessment policy vJe made. $6.39 a foot - I think probably it would have cost more than. It's d real deal, I'll tell you. r1R. DAVIS~ The only reason it's going in now is so they can get rid 0:;: those lots. Otherwise the street would rema in the ',-Jay it is. COUNCILl'IJAN GRAUEL~ This particular street has been a problem \,vith its narrow 'JJi.dth throughout the years and I don't think hvo wrongs are going to make 2 right, and I feel that over the years there has been a personality conflict or something. It's unfortunate that the street wasn't improved years ago, but as I said before, the present owner of the !;)roperty, at the time this plat was approved, dedicated l6 J/~ feet for the widening of Lexington Avenue and 30 feet Ior the vJidening of the street to the north. I think the Council is faced now wiLh a decision as to what percentage of a petition, 50 to speak, do you have to have presented in fl:unt of it before j.t' s gojng to stand up and make a decision in favor of a street F't'ogram. In thi.s particular petition we have fifty percent of the property mmers in favor and "Ie have 50% of the property owners opposing the petition. The 50% of the property owners that oppose the petition. at one time were in favor of the petition. Nowt suddenly, they're opposed. l\I{AYOR DErl10S ~ I \jould 1 ike to ask - I think I saw IlIr. Re il ing come in. ~hen you built Griggs Street up here, and it seems to me the cost in 1956 or 1957 was $25,000. MR. REILING~ I don't think it was that high at that time. Of course,. I built the street myself" the grading I did myself. j'J1AYOR DEf10S ~ It seems to me this is ~)hat t",e were told - that ',;as the ultimate cost and that ccme out of our escrO\" fund, and at that cost it would have been about $13 a foot. I-Ln. REILING: I don't doubt, going back to that point thElt it would be about that. r1AYOR ~)nI0S ~ 1:7hat I'1r. Curley is saying to you is that had you built the street then it would have been 100% assessed, do you see what I mean. and you would have paid in the vicinity of $10 to $l3 a foot, and now it's $6.39 a foot. Do you see what 'Vjere saying? 7