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only the lower land - not the so-called higher, drier, more desirable land for building purpose - which would take a piece running something like that. This is all many feet lower than the street - in some cases actually under water. The reason I say that's a complication is because how well this land will be ultimately used is a matter of pure conjecture, I think, depending on who wants to look at it when. What we did was try to find some alternatives to serve this property. Starting with the one we would actually recommend, it would be to follow the existing sewer to the west about 150 feet and then turn and come straight south. For those of you that know the site, and certainly the owner, this would be approximately where their easterly driveway comes in to serve the home. COUNCILMAN KEHR: Would you cut that Charlie, or jack it? MR. HONCHELL: We will probably have to jack under that particular section, although we are still trying to talk the County into letting us open-cut it. It depends on who we talk to which day. It's uncertain. There is a large tree just " beyond the curve of the driveway and that's approximately where the manhole would be planned to go. Then it would follow the driveway so that we wouldn't be either interfering with the home or the berm that's screening the property or the trees that also provide the screening for this site. We would merely go down their gravel driveway, construct the sewer over to this eight-tenths of an acre parcel, which I referenced earlier. That is also owned by them and in discussions with them they had indicated, when I last talked to them, a desire, at some point in the future, and possibly fairly soon, to put at least one and maybe two structures on that. It's wide enough - it's almost 200 feet wide - so you could put two if they wanted, but that's not their current plan. That would mean that this property could then put an ejector pump (inaudible) go into that manhole. There is actually room for another parcel if they wanted to - the home itself and con- ceivably a last parcel adjacent to it. There is room there for five lots, although that is not the way they are currently discussing using the land. That would again involve ejector pumps from each of them and we would rebuild their gravel driveway. They would retain their screening and their berm and their trees. There would be very little tree impact. One other thing I might add, because it would be served by a lift station - a lift pump - rather than a direct gravity feed, it's been the City policy and practice in the past to only assess half the cost of whatever the sanitary sewer normally would be assessed at. We made this estimate on the assumption of that-since this would require lift pump station structures -that the assessment would only be half. The very cheapest one would be to merely come out of the manhole across the street and build a manhole on the south side. That is the very cheapest as a public improvement. ~