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going along the rear of the property south of B-2 and the proper- ties to the north sheet drain to the road, where they are picked up as part of the roadway drainage that was previously provided. All this water comes to the ditch that's along the east side of Cleveland Avenue, it then exits through a 36 inch pipe and a 24 inch pipe over to the freeway drainage system. The proposal would call for markedly reducing that ditch system and replacing it with pipe. If you are familiar with the area, you know that particularly in front of the Trailmobile property, the ditch is very deep. There is minimal shoulder, no more than five or six feet, and this is a two lane road with a fence along the west side. There is really not even a place, in an emergency, for a car to get off the road. If anyone should ever have a blowout or lose temporary control, he's going to be down in that ditch. The ditch is also, in my opinion, rather unsightly, full of leaves, difficult to maintain, and it's sort of a receptacle for everything that blows in the area. The proposal would be to replace the ditch with an 18 inch - first with a 12 inch, then with an 18 inch pipe - leading to the 24 and then with 36 inch pipe which would empty into the 36 inch toward the freeway. This would provide the ability then to markedly reduce the amount of ditching, provide some safe area along that roadway, both for future construction of the road so that it can be - I'll use the word - a more attractive, to me at-least, roadway, somewhat akin to what is further down the way, where there are some delinea- tions on the side. Also, Victoria Statlon had to forego side- walk construction when it went in because of the fact that their improvement would have been down in the ditch. Ne~ther they nor the engineering department felt that that was a very good place to put the sidewalk, down in the bottom of this ditch. As this area continues to develop - and eventually Trailmobile may also prefer its use - there will be a need for sidewalks along that road and there will be a need for having a better roadway and ultimately a curb system to keep those cars up on the road, not down in the ditch. So that is what is being contemplated at this time. We are not contemplating roadway improvements as such or sidewalk improvements, but this would at least enable the City in the future, if it would so desire, to make those improvements. COUNCILMAN JOHNSON: Is Long Cadillac, Charlie, committed to the sidewalk - going ahead with that once that improvement goes in? MR. HONCHELL: They are not committed to that. They were buil t before that ordinance wa's even passed. MR. POPOVICH: The total published cost of this improvement is $145,200.00. It's really by Council initiative because the total amount of petitioners was less than 35%. Charlie has figured out that there are 325.02 assessable units within that area and the 25% cost of the assessment being assessed would come out to $111.69 per assessable unit. $446.74 if it was 100% assessed. I've forgotten what constitutes a unit, Charlie, and I think we'd better tell them how that area got divided into that 325.02 units. MR. HONCHELL: A base unit - if you want to use that word - 2