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COUNCILMAN CURLEY: These hearings are always very heart- rending, sitting up in front because you all have good arguments, and the developer has good arguments, and the people have good arguments and they all sound good and you could find yourself changing your mind five times during the course of an evening. It's unfortunate when a project like that comes that somebody has to pay assessments. It would be nice if you could just charge George Reiling - who has no love for me - and charge him for the whole thing. I would go along with that, but you can't do things that way. You have to charge the people who will benefit. I know it's pretty tough to understand you have a double lot and you never intend to develop this lot and you say "I bought it for my children". About five years ago I was on the Council and we were bmying land for park pupposes and people said we don't want to split large lots, and in the south of the city people said "we don't need a park - we all have large lots. We have lots of land for our children. II We turned it down and half a year later they came in and wanted the back lots split so they could sell the, and now they wish they had a park. The point is, it's easy to say "I bought it for my kids and never use it", but you get older, as the man said, and you want to retire, and you look for the almighty dollar and you have this nice lot and you can sell it and you may change your mind, so it's not a total loss for the people who are assessed right now. It hurts - you bet it hurts - with the high taxes and everything. I know how you feel. It hurts to get these bills, but you can spread it over a 20 year period, and those of you who have double lots - in time you're going to be able to sell it and you probably will mame a lot more money than right now than you think you can. As far as the storm sewer assess- ments, we all have to face the fact that we have to pay the assessments for stmrm sewers. It started at $250. I paid two - one for my first house and one for this one. But that's something that you have to pay for - the water run-off. I have a lot of sympathy with you and I sympathize and I'm sure you probably won't vote for me, but I'm not sure I'm going to run. COUNCILMAN GRAUEL: The property Tom was referring to was on Marion Road off of County Road B~ and it was an ideal parcel of land. The city could have bought it at a reasonable figure and it had a back-stop on there and a little ponding area, and a grove of trees and I said to Frank Rog, "For about $300 we ~ould invest in a back-stop and that would probably be the entire maintenance of that land." People came up - two or three times as many as you have here tonight, everybody voicing strong -42-