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be tax increment or it could be assessments. It's something we can't say until we really review it and make a final decision. COUNCILMAN CURLEY: But it could be possible, for example, that it could all be in tax increment and nobody would be assessed - isn't that a possibility? MAYOR DEMOS: It's a possibility. COUNCILMAN CURLEY: And a second possibility is that it could be a tax increment and maybe a smaller assessment. Hope- fully - I would hope, because we did talk about it - that there would be no assessment for anybody- that the money would all come from tax increment. MR. ANDRE: I think that was the intent. (Inaudible. ) COUNCILMAN KEHR: Those people that are living in those homes along there are B-4? MAYOR DEMOS: No - only one home is B-4. COUNCILMAN KEHR: Would that be treated as B-4 or as R-l under assessments? MR. ANDRE: Under present policy it would be treated as a business zone. COUNCILMAN JOHNSON: The 410 feet does not include the B-4, Mr. Popovich? MR. POPOVICH: That's right. You have to look at what the zoning is, because it isn't just the present use of the property that determines the benefit theory or the assessment - it's what the property could be used for. If you assess something as a residence today and it was zoned business or industrial and then 'a year from now the residence was taken off and it was used for business or industrial, you'd have the lower assessment. So it's not the present use only - it's the long-term. And while we're talking about the tax increment, that is true - if you decide to go with tax increment - of course, that requires a public hearing and 'all the other procedures - the rule is that any project started under Chapter 429, which is the Local Improvement Code, if it's a reasonable period of time before you go into the tax increment and it's contemplated to be taken over by tax increment, you could do that later. In the event, however, that you did not proceed with tax increment and you ordered the improvement, then it would have to stand by itself on Chapter 429 approach, which is what we've presented to you tonight - as if tax increment did not go ahead. The idea tonight is - if this project went ahead, forgetting about tax increment, would these assessments go with the people before us? Obviously, you have some who petitioned for it and some' the other way. On the other hand, none of them have answered the question - if it was all paid for under tax increment, 5