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going on in my mind at the time. Do I accept just what you gentlemen have said at face value or do I consider what the City often feels, which is that we have little remaining land left in Roseville and what is remaining should be developed to its highest and best use. In other words, and I'm going to be very blunt, and this does not mean I necessarily think this, but this is one of the things that I have to think about. Is the highest and best use just the storage of trucks on the rear of the property? I have thought long anq hard about this. I went through this whole thing last week with Mr. Honchell, trying to determine, and I've thought about it ever since. Do I take what you're saying at face value or do I say there is another use for this and it would be wrong to postpone it? I am not clear in my mind at this point, but like I said, I'm trying to give you the benefit of some of the thoughts going through my mind too. I appreciate what you're saying, but you have to stop and think about what we're thinking about too. I certainly appreciate what you're saying about M & M. Consider the whole thing. Let's face it. Some of this comes through a bit cheaper for them if we build the whole thing, namely the water. By the same token, it is wrong to expect, as far as the ponding area, for M & M's property to absorb all the ponding from the three or four owner- ships. MR. LAWRENCE STOUFFER: As Mr. Honchell pointed out, you're going to take an acre of Rihm' s property for ponding any,~ay. We're now reducing it down to almost 7 1/2 acres. So there wouldn't be too many trucks. Well, thatls all I have to say about it. I just don't think that it's fair, financially. I can't see it. MAYOR DEMOS: Mr. Rihm, are you using the property now or is it my understanding you intend to put up a building? MR. WALTER RIHM: Yes, we do. The building will probably extend back maybe half of it, in which we have approximately, it varies, around 50, 52 employees. We do keep an enormous amount of new trucks and used trucks and employee parking. You have to furnish that. COUNCILMAN KEHR: When you speak of an enormous amount of trucks, Mr. Rihm, can you give me a figure? MR. WALTER RIHM: Right now we have around 22 units, and I have had as high as 52 units. COUNCILMAN KEHR: (Inaudible) . MR. WALTER RIHM: Diesel trucks. We're not a freight company. We sell trucks to Coca-Cola and people of that nature. We have to have that much property. Now, Cummins Diesel, ,,;rho is one of your taxpayers out here, have, I believe, it's either four or six acres. They're busting at the seams. So it would be ridiculous for me, I'd be better off to sell that property to M & M or anybody e~se (inaudible). I certainly wouldn't 14