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a <br />3. <br />Specific property concerns <br />A. Fred Blanch property/Bayside - This property owner was <br />concer*. that the service to the property would require the <br />talcing down of a number of trees that presently provide a <br />substantial screening to his property. Staff indicated that <br />they would work to develop a solution that would not <br />necessitate removal of that significant screen. <br />B. Saving Trees/Minkema property - At the corner of Leaf and <br />Bayside there was concern because of the depth of the line <br />that the individual's trees may be destroyed. This may be <br />accomplished by an alternate routing either diagonally across <br />his property or an alternative would be placing the lateral <br />on the south side of Oxford. <br />C. Alternate design that would be cheaper - The people i cne <br />Bederwood area thought an alternate design for routing of the <br />trunk together with the laterals may provide a cheaper <br />design. <br />D. Splitting the Bederwood area by lateral service area - <br />This would be done in hopes of reducing the lateral . Jt for <br />some people. Persons in the Bederwood area have asked if <br />that lateral could be reduced or some other option looked at. <br />Splitting the area may reduce one area's costs but would <br />probably increase another's. This will be looked at. <br />Does the assessment process that is being proposed only skirt <br />the law and become a way of "cheating the residents" by <br />forcing an unrealistically high connection charg*’ <br />A. Such an interpretation can be put on it, but the process <br />being proposed is necessary to limit the City's risk. Since <br />the City has taken the position that the area should pay its <br />own way, this process provides a means by which the project <br />can go ahead. If the City had to have the substantial risk <br />that it had in the Crystal Bay project, the project may not <br />go ahead at all. (As to benefit, the petition/waiver process <br />allows the individual owner to decide what the benefit is to <br />their property rather than having a court arbitrarily decide <br />that.) It should be remembered that any value addition to <br />the properties is not going to fully be reflected in the sale <br />price. While it varies from year to year, a person who does