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2 MR. HONCHELL: This particular project is for the provision of storm drainage facilities in the general area between Hamline and Snelling, and roughly the northern city limits down to an area just south of Lydia. The boundary is shown in the yellow line for those parcels that are proposed to be affected by the improve- ment in regard to assessments. The project is being considered at this point because of three primary reasons. As many of you from the neighborhood recall, in 1975 there was a public hearing held for those areas roughly identified as B, C, E and F, namely the area mostly east of Simpson in that general area. At that hearing, the plans were not too different from what you see today. What was particularly different at that time, however, was the fact that none of the storm drain facilities that lead to Lake Josephine anywhere around the City had any specific provisions in them to do what was possible in the way of ponding and water purification. At the time of that hearing there were at least five, and perhaps more, alternatives presented, including provisions for intercepting these areas here shown as C, E and F, and taking them to a location on the other side of Lexington Avenue known as Little Josephine. It's a relatively low, swampy area. The cost of that long piping, however, from Hamline to Lexington was as great as the cost of all the improvements in the area. There were simply no funds available at the time to do such work. The project, therefore, was denied, and it was determined that there would have to be ways to speak to the problems of the water going to Lake Josephine. As most of you know, since that time that problem has been spoken to. This is just a small portion of it, but you see some green shown on our map near Hamline Avenue coming from the west side of Hamline near Josephine. This pipe runs across Lexington to the Little Josephine ponding area. The reason for bringing that pipe over to this location, quite frankly, was for the purpose of being able to provide an outlet for the area to serve it in the way of a storm water ponding project. I might also add that this particular project shown, namely with C, E and F, going with this pipe, constitutes probably two- thirds of what was the old storm area, but that's of course, a very small area that was intercepted by this diversion pipe. There was probably almost 250 acres that got diverted. As a result of that, Lake Josephine today - if these improvements were carried out - would only be receiving 6% of the direct run off in comparison with the 100% it had before from area B, and that's because this particular area is lower than the pipes and it's physically not possible to get it to Little Lake Josephine. There's no way to get it there. So we now have facilities available to us that were not available in 1975 as far as speaking to the environmental, economical aspects.