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Page 17 problems peculiar to the creating of a historic district. She had helped establish the East Wayne Historic District. She noted that, although 800 of E. Wayne residents initially supported the district, many had later turned against it; it had, in fact, barely passed_ Mr. Fritz stated that the petition had only been circulated to resident homeowners; it was means of gauging, for Mr. Luecke's benefit, the approximate level of resident homeowner support. Secondly, administering the district should be viewed as a separate issue from the setting of its boundaries. Worrying prematurely about administrative difficulties would bias the commission members' judgment. Mr. Herendeen asked how these two issues could possibly be separated. Mr. Fritz suggested that the HPC was simply underfunded; increased funding would increase its administrative capacity. Mr. Murray objected to the deliberate exclusion of all but resident homeowners from the petitioning process. Mr. Oxian explained that the petitioning was part of a new, and still unfamiliar, method of creating historic districts by ordinance. The thing to remember, he said, was that the 90 -day review period had been established to let the HPC hold a hearing before sending the proposal to the Common Council. Had this review period been left out of the ordinance, the proposal would have entirely by passed the HPC and gone straight to the Common Council. Mr_ Murray again urged shelving the proposal to prevent its defeat. Mr. Oxian said that, if the proposal were shelved, it would not come back to the HPC; it would simply go to the Common Council with a favorable recommendation. If it were defeated, the entire process would have to begin all over again. Mr. Murray asked whether, if the bill were shelved, the residents could then gather more support and reintroduce the bill at a later date_ Mr. Oxian said again that imposing districts by ordinance was a new, unfamiliar method; also, the commission members believed it necessary to demonstrate majority support for the district, before giving their approval. Mr. Moore asked why Harrison street had been chosen as the western district boundary. Mr. Oxian said Harrison -street was the boundary of a proposal made five years earlier. Other residents further east had then become interested in belonging to the district. Mr. Moore suggested that William street had a heavier