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6/la/84 Page -9- Mr. Haas stated that they were talking about tYie land on the other side of the reservoir for ingress-egress. Mr_. Wurl asked if he was talking about the land on~~~the east end of the existing Para- gon Heights and yes, this land was pur- cYiased to expand the reservoir. Mr. Haas stated that the road did not have to come in a straight line; it could be curved or whatever. So they were here to sYiow Council a plan that they could live with. Councilman Leary Commented that he didn't think we should get carried away on those kinds of details. HE' thought these would have to be issues tYiat would have to be acceptable if they dE~cide to come in. Councilman Leary reiter- ated the issue is the compelling benefit. HE: wished to make one point to Mr. Haas by stating that each councilmember made tYiemselves available to him outside this process to talk with him. But he didn't. tYiink he or any other councilmember said "'yE:s - this is great, I'm going to vote yes:' Nor did he think they said - "no, I'm going to vote no." What Mr. Haas did was present tYie information to councilmembers on a one to one basis. He stated - granted he didn't know if some of these issues were brought up in the individual conversations and didn't know if they were appropriate to bring up iri those type discussions; but there is an overriding issue and that is the compelling benefit and it appeared to him that the compelling benefit must be whether or not the Council wants to essentially go outside oi= what he contended would be our compre- hensive plan and what that land is intended for in trade-off for not having to at some point and time use our own resources to purchase the land for the reservoir. He felt that there would be no question that this land will be purchased by the City for the expansion of the reservoir. The situa- tion is a rare one and this is the only area where we have budgeted money to buy not necessarily open space but to buy the rE~servoir land. This money has been set a:~ide in our 20-year plans and we will have the resources to acquire the land for the reservoir if it is needed.