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<br />t';;.;;;. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />back UP toward B-2, over to the other side of B-2, and then along <br />Lexington Avenue again. This is a rather substanti~l ar~a - no <br />q~estion about that. The reason for some of these Jogs ~n and <br />out is not necessarily that that's exactly the way the water <br />runs, although that's one of the criteria for being in or out. <br />These lots that are outside these lines have already been <br />assessed for storm sewer in the past. It's been the general <br />City policy that when you've had one storm sewer assessment for <br />this type of improvement - even if your water then goes a little <br />farther and gets into something else - they haven't been charging <br />again. Therefore, we made this boundary with that in mind and <br />did not include these several lots on that basis. The remainder, <br />however, are lots that as best we can tell preliminarily, all <br />end up contributing water that becomes part of the overall prob- <br />lem that results in some various form of solution in this <br />improvement being discussed tonight. That's why most of you in <br />the audience are here tonight - because you got a notice saying <br />you are within this boundary area and your water is comingling <br />with your neighbors and ultimately getting into someplace where <br />the improvement is involved. <br /> <br />Mr. Popovich will talk later about some of the numbers in- <br />volved. I think it might be helpful if I talk just a little bit <br />about sort of how the City has historically assessed for storm <br />drainage. The policy being followed right now is that if your <br />water is part of the problem, then you should be part of the <br />solution.. However, they are not charging the full cost to the <br />parcels involved - they are single family parcels, which every- <br />one of these are~, They only charge 25% of the cost. When you <br />hear numbers this evening of what assessments may be, this is <br />pctually only a quarter of the total cost on a per lot basis. <br />There are some other people involved in paying, like the County <br />because some of their right-of-ways are there, and of course <br />the City has property as well and as an entity they also pick up <br />their share of the cost. <br /> <br />As we said, this. area down here had some major problems <br />back in 1978. Not problems for an hour or a day, but problems <br />of months. We therefore wanted to address that problem very, <br />specifically. Other problems, however, in the area, are that <br />there are some very steep grades coming down'all of these <br />streets towards Brooks. Even Transit itself in some of these <br />areas also has some fairly steep grades bringing. the water to <br />various locations. The water comes down these streets with <br />nothing to pick it up except some outmoded and undersized, <br />deteriorated, old concrete box in-let structures and then some <br />corrugated pipe to bring it across at some various locations <br />directly into Bennett Lake. In doing this, the water sheets <br />right across Brooks, in particular. The facilities simply <br />aren't handling it prop~rly and it does lead to problems on <br />Brooks. ' <br /> <br />Secondly, once it manages to get away from Brooks, as it <br />goes into the facilities, most of these don1t go all the way <br /> <br />3 <br />