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2552 watermain nor the sanitary sewer. Some towns do not charge church property at all. Certainly what the council has done in deferring assessments is fair and there should not be any, objections. The potential purpose of the lots is for parking and there is no benefit. It is the intention of the church to'keep these lots for parking purposes. As to utilization for such, trustees realize a conditional use permit is required in an R-1 District. He further stated that the church is faced with ,the prospect of whether or not to continue to fi11 these lots, and he thinks the use of the land should be considered. As to when the lots will be improved, the church is like all other churches as far as finances are concerned. He has lived near churches and he is of the opinion the owners of homes around. there would find it desirable to have off-street parking. As the council knows, two lots are presently for parking '- there are trvo more lots on Holton and two of them primarily to be used for parking and are partially filled. On Pascal there are two lots that are not filled. It is probably not going to be a whole lot bigger church, and whether or not all four of these lots will be developed, he could not say. Ray Hardy was of the opinion that intention is to fill and level them off and then if church decides they need more parking, they will go ahead. Mayor Nilsen stated that ~rhether they start from scratch and build it up or whatever they do with the property, the assessment should be paid. Short then stated that it is~the trusteest intention to fill in these lots and then se11 them off. The best thing they think to do is hold onto that property and not se11 them off and maybe have to pay a lot more in the future to get them back if needed. He thinks property owners would like to get parking off GardBn Avenue. He cannot honestly say the church has a right to say it is receiving no benefit. The use of the land is preventing utilization of the utilities there, and it is questionable whether they will ever be. °Many communities make compromises and. treat it somewhat like their own park system. Mayor Nilsen advised that the School was assessed for sanitary sewer and storm°sewer, the water was already in when school was built. He cannot see how the council can reasonably consider not assessing. Short advised he could see benefit of storm sewer and could see no point in discussing that assessment. Hardy stated that there plans for possible addition to the church and if so, there is possibility the church membership would increase and more parking would be needed. The two lots that go up to the old parsonage --Lots 20 and 21 -would be aLt the parking needed. as far as he can tell.. It seems that the church would like to fill it in and just leave it for the time being.