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2 That's sort of how we got started to where we are. Just a little bit of additional history is that when this road on Wagner was originally put in some years ago, it was anticipated that Wagner would continue in an easterly direction and would hook up with Western. Because of the fact that the Widerski's, who are the owner of that property, have a home which is extremely close to what is the existing right-of-way line, it was not possible at that time to continue the road line. A permanent up-to-standard roadway was built to (inaudible) in this area, and a temporary cul-de-sac constructed with easements obtained from these owners to cover a 10-year period. Well, the 10 years expired last year so that there actually is no formal cul-de-sac of any type that really exists, ~lthough people do drive there and turn around. At the hearing there were discussions about whether this should be a through street as the original plan called, or should it be a cul-de-sac as the petition called for. It was the consensus of the ownership along the roadway that cul-de-sacs would be desirable. Based on this, the feasibility study was prepared which does provide for the two cul-de-sacs, the extension of the sanitary sewer to serve both the existing home, the vacant property, and the home on the northern corner of Western, and a watermain to loop the existing dead-ended watermain here at Wagner to the dead-ended watermain on Western. I might also note that particularly this watermain on Western does have a history of freezing because of the fact it has a lack of flowage in a dead-end in a rather low and exposed situation. I anticipate this will not be the end of my discussion, but perhaps the easiest way to start the dialog is to say this is what came out of the Planning Commission. - This is what the Council approved when it approved the lot split with these conditions as shown, and so we prepared our feasibility study in accordance with those, and we do find those to be feasible. Since that time, I have had a discussion with the owner of the south side and they have indicated that they did not feel they wished to continue with the process. If that does turn out to be the case tonight, I would say that from the Public Works 'Department, we feel extremely strongly that we should be at least constructing the sanitary sewer to provide sewage to the two existing homes, and to allow this property to develop, and also to extend the watermain along the north side as this shows. That assumes there are no roads to be constructed so that this watermain gets looped to the other watermain and there is a much lesser possibility of people having no water at all because it freezes. There are other alternatives that are possible, but we feel we'd rather not get into the ramifications of those, particularly until we hear from the property owners and get their viewpoint.