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5 department I was given the amount of $194,450 if Judith was included. I was also given the $167,500 when we would only have Griggs Street. There's a $206,650 figure and, as I understand Mr. Popovich, that's if this little "el" to the east (inaudible). MR. HONCHELL: That would include Judith east and west of Griggs. MS. EDSTROM: I'm opposed to paying for Judith. MR. GERALD SULLIVAN 2820 North Griggs: I'm the petitioner. I don't know if I want to identify myself like that tonight. I can't really improve upon the little speech you gave earlier. I endorse all of those reasons. I think it would be good for our neighborhood. The one thing I have trouble with is the addition of Judith. We did not discuss that, and it does increase the cost and I'm concerned some of them may not want to go with that. If we could get the opinion of the people that will be affected by Judith (inaudible) MR. ANDRE: Are you talking about both parts? MR. SULLIVAN: I believe the short part of Judith is that they do not want it improved (inaudible) from the other part of Judith, the one who lives on Fernwood, I'd be more comfortable with their improvement, but I would endorse Plan A. MAYOR DEMOS: I might say why some of these cross streets were put into a proposed project is that if we build streets and we assess on front footage and then on side streets, we only assess lO% of each lot or, in this case, thirteen and a half feet which would mean from Griggs to Fernwood you have probably 270 feet and you would be only assessing for 27 feet. Who pays the cost? Supposing we build all our front foot streets and we have all these bits and pieces of lots in between. Our concern is, who is going to do them because we're required by law to have one-fourth of the cost in assessments so this has been our concern and the City felt that possibly we should be considering doing these - some of these short sections - with the street because there isn't any frontage and in that case the four houses do face - two on Griggs and two on Fernwood, and that is our concern because we don't feel the people should pay for corner lots as some people did on Woodhill Drive. MR. HONCHELL: To use the example of the particular roadway we're looking at now. If Judith - let's say we passed Griggs all by itself and tomorrow there was a petition to do Judith between Griggs and Fernwood. The cost isn't any different tomorrow than today. There's something like $27,000 to do that block between Griggs and Fernwood. If there's thirteen and a half assessable feet for those four lots that makes 54 assessable feet. 54 assessable feet into $27,000 is $500 a foot assessment costs. Even when you divide that by four that's $125 a foot each of those four property owners on Judith would have to pay for assessments because we still have to assess a