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Davidson: Grlffiths: Davidson: this mechanism. Enough is enough. In taking a quick reading of this letter from this engineering firm, I would never hire them to do a water rate study. They compare Louisville rates with the City of Denver water rates and even a fool knows that the price of things have gone up since the City of Denver bought their water. If we had bought our water in 1950, we could afford to charge rates like they do too. What we're charging for our water tap is probably too low. Also, on page 4, where we're discussing 16.16.060, the City attorney has presented us with a change of our intent. Our intent was to change the open space dedication only on residential and not on commercial. Susan, what would you propose to correct that? I will gladly draft an amendment to the ordinance that I provided to Council tonight, which would revise the language to indicate that the 12% dedication requirement would remain the same for any non- residential tracts, but would increase to 15% for tracts which are being subdivided in whole or in part for residential purposes. That amendment is before you and calls for some revision as to 16.16.060, paragraphs B1, 2, and 5, all to ensure that the increase from 12% to 15% is solely for tracts that are subdivided for residential purposes. The ordinance speaks of dedicating land within the subdivision. In cases of commercial land, etc., I don't think the City is ever going to acquire enough land to have a regional park, we might need dedications in a different area. I wonder if the ordinance, in this section, shouldn't have some words allowing for requiring the dedication; but perhaps allowing the dedication outside of the 17