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every person who wishes to address this subject, come to the microphone, give his or her name and address and the address of the property to which you're referring, if it's different than your home address. MR. ANDRE: Mayor, I would like to point out that the hearings that we have tonight are the result of petitions that have been circulated to persons living on those streets and the Council, as a matter of policy, has responded to the petitions in terms of determining feasibility studies and following through with hearings. I might point out that the Council has not initiated any of these projects that we are hearing here tonight. MAYOR DEMOS: Cohansey Street - the hearing is open. LEE SCHOMACKER, 2415 Cohansey: I wish to say right now that I am opposed to this matter that is up for consideration, much for the same reasons that I was opposed to it three or four years ago. First, I don't think that the need has been proven. I think the streets that we have right now are adequaterand very functional. The .cost, a second item, is over $200,000. It's going to be incurred by each home own~r in the way of an assessment. Third, we cannot be guaranteed that the shrubbery or trees that are now up and have grown over 15 or 20 years are not going to be destroyed. Mr. Honchell did refer to only three, but he could not guarantee that there might be more. As far as the petition that was circu- lated, I assume that this is fact, but I can also assume that the petition that was circulated and signed was more or less more of an indication of interest than an actual vote. I assume that's what we're here to do today - to tender our votes, one way or the other. Thank you. MAYOR DEMOS: Is there anyone else that wishes to be heard from Cohansey Street? CARL DeSPIEGELAERE, 2446 Cohansey: old is Cohansey Street now? I would like to ask - how MR. HONCHELL: I guess I'm really not certain as to how old it is. Mr. Short, do you recall when that came in? Is that about l5 years old? MR. ROGER SHORT, Short, Elliott, Hendrickson: As I recall, it's less than 15 years old. As I recall, Cohansey was constructed after, I believe, or immediately before BanCon acquired the properties there and started building. I can't say exactly when the first homes were in, but I believe it's less than IS. CARL DeSPIEGELAERE: I was thinking that maybe with proper maintenance, a road of that sort should last maybe around 40 years. Would that be about accurate? MAYOR DEMOS: It would be far from accurate, because we've never had a permanent street put in. There would be no way you could hope for a temporary street to ever be that age. In fact, the only reason temporary streets have held up in Roseville as 4