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3.5 5 out that the difference is 11 feet and what the City Council needs to be made aware of is, it has always been our understanding that in the Subdivision Ordinance the developers are required to meet certain minimums then anything that the city imposes beyond those minimums, the city picks up the cost. Mr. Smith said this is not one of those things in a Comprehensive Master Plan for it to be a thoroughfare street, and there is nothing in the ordinance that he can point to and say the developer has got to build a 39 foot street, so in this case, it is his opinion that the 39 foot street would be advantageous as it is zoned commercial. Mr. Smith said there are a lot of things that are occurring in commercial zoning and at this time we do not know what that is, but the main point is based on the past. The City will be responsible to pick up that additional cost difference between 28 foot street and a 39 foot street." Mr. Tidwell said essentially this is what they are asking for from the City Council. Mr. Tidwell pointed out the differences between Mr. Moore's development and the Hills Development by Brownstone. He said the Hills Development is going to contain approximately 250 residential structures which is an upscale development. Mr. Tidwell said just yesterday in the Paris News, Jack Harris the Research Economist at the Real Estate Center with the Texas A &M University in College Station, was talking about some of the upscale retirement communities and quoted what Mr Harris said "generally, upscale residences provide more tax revenue than they require services," Harris said, explaining the communities require less police and fire protection and even less maintenance of highways systems." Mr. Tidwell said let's compare, lets look at Mr. Moore's and let's look at Brownstone. He said Mr. Moore's has commercial development, loading docks as you can see from the pictures. It is contemplated there are going to be heavy industrial trucks coming through on a daily basis. He advised that Brownstone does not. It is all residential with no commercial. Mr. Moore's also connects 34`' Street N. E. with the Loop, which is heavily traveled, not just by those that are going to live in Mr. Moore's development, but also those that live in those other developments up through Elk Hollow Rd. Mr. Tidwell said it is a cut through; further more, you could have, because it is a commercial development, and they are not sure what is going in that un -named building, but when you are looking at the Brownstone