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2 in the new subdivisions where they don't know where the driveways will be. The roadway does have some locations of unsuitable material under the existing road.By obtaining soil borings, we will remove that at the time the roadway would be constructed. Some of the things that you would be at least interested in is the fact that there is a piece of existing right-of-way going to the west where the existing plat is, and we do not propose at this time to do anything with that right-of-way because we do not know what will happen to the vacant land to the west. We feel it better to leave that decision to the future when we will know what development will occur on that land. Another facet that will be carried through on all of the hearings that have to do with streets is - you will see several times there are odd shaped lots. A typical lot is assumed to be rather rectangular - longer in length than it is frontage or wide. This would be a typical lot with its length being longer than its front. When we find a pie shaped lot, whether wider in the front and narrow in the back, or narrow in the front and wide in the back, the City has a standard odd-shaped formula which converts that strange shape into an equivalent rectangle by using the area of the lot, and this is a good example on this plat because there are many lots where that occurs. Most of these have unusual shapes and so the frontage involved when assessment time would come around would be based on the so-called odd lot formula. We also have corner lot formulas which would apply on lots such as this. The shortest side is assumed to be the front. It doesn't matter where your address is, which way the house faces, or where your driveway is. The short side is assumed to be the front. The long side is side lot. In the case of this lot you would have 170 assessable feet on the front and, at the moment I don't see the length, but for discussion purposes say it's 200 feet long. The corner lot formula results in only one-tenth of that side lot being called assessable, so if it was 200 feet long it would be one-tenth of that, or 20 assessable feet to assist in paying for that side as well as the front that would be improved. MR. POPOVICH: The published notice as to the total cost is $305,447. This improvement was initiated by petition of the affected property owners. The total assessable footage is 5,770 feet according to the formula that the engineer was talking about. The estimated cost per foot would amount to $52.93 if it were 100% assessed. The Department recommends that only 25% be assessed against the property owners and that would be $13.23 a foot depending on how much footage your lot came out with based on the formula. This is a feasibility hearing, and the assessment hearing doesn't occur until next year, at which time the exact costs would