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and, as you know, there is an empowering district with two dis- tricts within it. There is a nUQber of items in each district. You have to have a public hearing and get input - there's a procedure you go through - and you may very well not put every- thing in. In other words, this is one of say ten items - there's a bridge, this road - so that when you talk about the tax increment, you have a plan before you but we haven't had that full hearing on it yet. So there may be items that you would leave out of that. This could be one. The thing I was kind of interested in - and the people haven't answered - let's suppose this was included in tax increment and they wouldn't be charged a dime - do they still want this? No one has answered that question. You've gotten the idea that at least the resi- dents don't want it if they're going to be assessed and this gentlemen here had indicated some opposition. But it if was all picked up by tax increment and the bonds for the improvement were paid for out of the captured new assessed value of the area - do they still want it? Maybe that's a question we'll cover later at that public hearing. But since they're here tonight . COUNCILMAN JOHNSON: You mean do the petitioners want it in that case? COUNCILMAN FRANKE: No, I'd like to ask these people - if you didn't have to pay for it, would you still be opposed? MR. JEFF ZAPPA, 2369 Fulham Street: We feel we don't need it. WOMAN IN AUDIENCE (Did not Identify Herself): One thing, we're all poor people down there - we don't have any money to pay all these taxes. Even if we did, nobody would desire 3,000 cars going by their house each day. The dust and the dirt is so bad from the construction over there that I've used my water hose to water down the r~ad out there. COUNCILMAN FRANKE: that property rezoned. (Inaudible) in 1979 if they wanted MAYOR DEMOS: Long before that, because I was on the Planning Commission. MAN IN AUDIENCE: Not that property - the property on the service road - was under contract. Not on Fulham Street. MAYOR DEMOS: Not on contract. But like I said, I came on the Council in 1974 - before that - all the owners wanted to be considered. MAN IN AUDIENCE: Not on Fulham. WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: I have lived there for 21 years and I haven't heard anything about it. 9