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9 MAYOR DEMOS: lO%, up to l50 feet, so that would be thirteen and a half feet. We haven't arbitrarily changed our policy from year to year. It used to be you did pay for corner lots, and three or four years ago we did cut it down. MR. KETELSEN: So you're planning to stay with 10%. MAYOR DEMOS: Yes. MR. KETELSEN: I guess lastly, neither my wife or I would say this would not be an improvement in terms of the looks of the block. We're a little hesitant in that we wish more was included in it, like a group of streets. I find it difficult to believe it would not be more cost effective to do more than one street at a time. I also find it difficult (inaudible) petroleum base as asphalt does not increase in price, and interest rates. It would be extremely difficult to say that interest rates would not be much higher. They could be lower, granted. COUNCILMAN CURLEY: Are you for the project? MR. KETELSEN: I would like the looks. However, in terms of cost and the cost to me, I would say, no. COUNCILMAN CURLEY: You would like to have more participation of the neighborhood. MR. KETELSEN: Yes. COUNCILMAN CURLEY: (Inaudible) because when Mr. Popovich ran off the cost it was $49.08 a foot, so if this weren't available to you it would cost $49.08 a foot to build this street. We're offering it to you at $l2.27 a foot, so obviously there is a lot of cooperation among the nei~hborhood because we're helping to pay the other 75% - the other taxpayers in Roseville. MR. KETELSEN: I realize that. I guess what I'm saying, I would believe that if we could do Patton, Stanbridge and Millwood as a group it would be better and more cost effective than just to do a block at a time. COUNCILMAN FRANKE: We can't do that unless we had the people on Stanbridge ask for an improvement. ~~. KETELSEN: I was just wondering, would it be so difficult to require a petitioning group that while the petition for a road affects those involved, the imraediately adjacent streets be notified of the existence of a petition. MAYOR DEMOS: In the hearings of 1976,and I'm not about to (inaudible). I said we would live with the situation and any street we built from that point on would be one that was requested by the people, unless it was an MSA road, which means the state gasoline and license plate tax pay for that street entirely. In other words, I'm not about to subject these people (inaudible). We have suggested, and have a little hand-out thatdoes (inaudible)