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19 COUNCILMAN KEHR: The other question - I believe you indicated that in the event there would be some changes in that flow of water after you made the complete study - took all your elevations, etc. - that there is a possibility there would be a line of where the assessments would come from, is that correct? MR. HONCHELL: If we found any of the lots into the dashed line by our surveying - if it was found that they do not con- tribute water picked up by the proposed storm facility, at the time of the assessment hearing we would not propose them to be assessed. COUNCILMAN KEHR: Say that line on the west side there - southwest - that line - that dotted line that comes in at an angle. Say for instance that moves further down, that there would be more lots involved than what you have indicated, would there be another hearing for those people that are involved in the event that it should turn out that way? MR. HONCHELL: It would be necessary for them to get their legal notices so they would have an opportunity to come in and advise their opinion. COUNCILMAN KEHR: And if it went the other way, they would be deleted from that? MR. PETERSON: Part of the problem on any sort of feasibility hearing where you arbitrarily have to draw some sort of line, it's always in the best interest of the city to include more territory than what you might think it might need because we can always delete it but I can't add it in later. COUNCILMAN KEHR: That's what I thought and just wanted to verify. I would like to make a general comment. I'm for the project as proposed, along with the storm sewer, and I'll tell you why. A few years ago I was involved in a storm sewer assessment that I was not very much in favor of myself at the time. As a matter of fact, I'm on the top of the hill - absolutely no water problem, but the water is coming off liD" and around the corner - Chatsworth, and going down the hill. The storm sewer is approximately half a mile long. I didn't need it and, I believe, only one on that street was in favor of it, but I didn't oppose it too strongly. I was really not in favor of it, but they did put it in. The assessments I have been paying are negligible, and in the good neighbor policy I'm very pleased now and so are all the neighbors for the minimum amount of money that we have to pay for this storm sewer. It really contributes more to the people - not for me because I'm on the top of the hill - but for the people going down the line it has alleviated a lot of their water problems which they felt at one time they did not have, and with the storm sewer in now these problems are eliminated and there isn't a single person on that street that today will object to that storm sewer that was put in about six years ago. I can understand the people that live on there - their feelings. I know what my feeling was at the time, but $295 over 20 years is not a lot of money. It