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themselves petition for the creation of the Special Improvement District. In some instances, the City Council can create a Special Improvement District without the consent of the adjoining property owners. I haven't looked at it recently to see if that would work in this situation. Terry O'Conner, 1480 Moss Rock Place, Boulder, CO, a property owner in the Colorado Tech Center, and on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Tech Center General Improvement District. O'Conner: Speaking to the issue of streetlighting, I would like for you to keep a couple of things in mind. It is an industrial park. There is not a tremendous amount of activity in the evening there. Streetlights are expensive and it costs money to maintain them. It's somewhat of a duplication. In our plan and for most of the buildings out there, and I've built over half of the buildings in the Colorado Tech Center, we have pretty extensive parking lot lighting. We could be duplicating that lighting in the streets. The sidewalks would be an advantage at some point down the road. We're trying to keep the Colorado Tech Center competitive. By imposing nickel and dime costs to the project, we're going to loose our competitiveness. Mayer: Would it be your experience that streetlights would not be desired by the owners at CTC? O'Conner: I don't have enough overall experience with industrial parks to tell you what is normal. I can just tell you that everything is lighted out there. Mayer: I'm concerned about someone coming to the City and saying we don't have streetlights or sidewalks and when are you going to put them in. That's building up a fairly large 6