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subject property primarily in discussion tonight - the home at 556 County Road C - who also owns a large, four and half acre parcel where the home is situated, plus an eight-tenths of an acre parcel immediately to the west. In this particular case, the City sanitarian has viewed the site and is of the opinion that the existing septic field must be changed and must be connected to the sanitary sewer. I'm relaying what he has told to me in his report. The home, unfortunately, as in the case of most of these we're talking about tonight, has a problem. In this case, the problem is that County Road C is sitting five to six feet, at least, higher than the home. The elevation of the bottom of the home is 917 - that's the floor of the basement. Unfortunately, the sanitary sewer that is closest - at the corner of Mackubin and C - has an elevation of 920. It's three feet higher than the basement. The other near location has an elevation of 908, which is low enough, and then we have another manhole slightly further down on Dale of 898. We can see there are some rather drastic elevation changes. Here we are at roughly 900 and here it is at 920 - 20 feet different. That is indeed the way " the land runs in this direction. It's much higher to the north than it is to the south. Immediately off the road there is a major change in the elevation. It's several feet lower just after you go off the road right-of-way. Trying to find effective ways to provide sanitary sewer to this property led us to many alternatives. To be quite candid, if we simply had our choice in engineering, what we would do would be to come out of another manhole which is even lower than this one, build a sanitary sewer across both of these parcels to somewhere in this location, and then bring the sanitary up. That 'would allow for the ultimate development of this land. Unfortunately, since this particular land owner has no idea at this point as to how he wants to develop his land or even in what manner, "not to mention where, he is adamantly opposed to that. We would end up in a rather severe condemnation action I'm afraid. Further, even the owner of this property at this point does not have firm plans as to how they wish to use the land either. Just to make this an even more impressive decision you're going to have to make - this land is listed in our plan as being desirable to be acquired for park purposes. It would appear that certainly a . MAYOR DEMOS: He's been quite resistant to that through the year~, however. MR. HONCHELL: It is number one priority - is all I can say - on your list. MAYOR DEMOS: Not my list. MR. HONCHELL: Yours being the City. One of the ways that that could be done would be to have the City consider