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improvement far enhances the value of your property when you sell it. If you have good access to your area, to your home, it makes a big difference in the value when you go to resell your home. Thank you. MRS. SUE IWAN, 918 Transit: I just want to say that I am in support of this project. During heavy rains, we can watch the land roll down our back hill. We have a4ditch in the front yard which frequently has standing water in it. MR. ROGER NELSON, 1053 Brooks: I'm in favor of the project. I have one question - on the curbs at the driveways - how do you work the curbs into the driveways? MR. HONCHELL: The gutter section is more separate from the curb. The curb is the part that kind of sticks up in the air; the gutter is the part that's flat. You may know, but others may not. The gutter section would continue right past your driveway opening. There would then be about an inch and a half gradual slope higher than the gutter to try and capture the water as it's going by on the street - to keep it in the street so it doesn't go in your driveway. Again, we would make the driveway opening to match whatever you have. If you have con- crete, we'd put concrete in; if you have bituminous, we'd put bituminous in. It will usually stay the same as what you have, assuming you don't have a very gigantic driveway opening. ~ MAYOR DEMOS: Anyone else on the storm drainage? I will declare this portion of the hearing closed and I will make a couple of quick remarks. The statement that "I'm on a hill" - I appreciate that, I appreciate that you don't have a problem. However, you contribute water. As a contributor, you are asked to take part in this project, paying for what you have carrying down the hill. We can't all live on the hills. Neither do we have the right to deny development to the owners who live below the hill. How it helps anyone portion - there again you may not feel the initial benefit, but as a contributor of water to the project, we ask you to share it. As far as those lots which feel that they may absorb - I don't question you if you have sand'. But remember, there is carriage of water below the ground. It may carry into another area which pre- vents that water soaking in. So again, you sometimes are a contributor overground and sometimes you're a contributor underground. I will ask for the Council's action. This is on the storm drainage. COUNCILMAN FRANKE: I have a few comments also. I appre- ciate the fact that the people will come out on a cold night, particularly the people who are in favor of it instead of just depending on us to go ahead and do it, and I also appreciate hearing from the people who feel, in one way or another, that they haven't contributed and wonder why they have to pay. I think when they're here and understand that in a way they do contribute to the problem - the people who took the time to come out and say "we need this and we're willing to pay for it" - 23