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3 COUNCILMAN KEHR: Did he sign? FROM THE AUDIENCE: I own a lot, and he owns a lot. MR. HONCHELL: When did you buy them? FROM THE AUDIENCE: In June. COUNCILMAN FRANKE: Are they assessed? MR. HONCHELL: This is not an assessment hearing (inaudible) for those people out there. This is to decide if the roadway should be done or not, but I wanted to bring it up so people would know the City policy. When new subdivisions are made, which is what happened on the south side of the road, that they are responsible for constructing, in this case, their half of a roadway and to pay the entire cost, and the current policy sayswhenever a roadway such as this is upgraded within a 3-year period of the subdividing (inaudible) it's the subdividers obligation to assume that. This is not the time to make that decision, but I did want to clear the air and put it out front. COUNCIL~mN FRANKE: That some of them will have to pay 100%. MR. HONCHELL: The property is considered a new subdivision and according to City Council policy they pay 100%, and this is viewed by our policy as a new subdivision. Therefore, when we prepared the report we prepared it in accordance with that policy. COUNCILMAN CURLEY: We could, at the time of assessments, agree to assess them 25%. COUNCILMAN FRANKE: The reason we do that is if somebody comes in with a subdivision, a developer has to put in a street. That was the reason not (inaudible) for single family dwellings. The other fellow should have paid for it before. MR. HONCHELL: (Inaudible) on every plat that comes in we ask them to give the City money because our requirement is that he buy all the public improvements necessary and provide that with the improvement, sewer, water, and paving. Since there was an undetermined time scale as to when we might, if ever, pave that block of Lovell, we have not been asking the people to put in one and a half times the price. We would not know what price (inaudible) plus he would have his money tied up forever, so it was adopted that a 3-year period is a fairly recent period and it was felt the policy was reasonable (inaudible). There is some development that was done ten years ago. Where do you draw the line? That's not a decision to be made tonight. COUNCIL~mN KEHR: I ~~ink it should be a decision made tonight because those people that purchased lots on the south side of Lovell, if they're going to be assessed 100% they definitely will, I would think, be negative to the approach. However, if they would be assessed 25%, they would perhaps be in favor of it.