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. . ACTING MAYOR WOODBURN: If you ever had to re-do it,. MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: I assume if it would be a 20-year time there would be another assessment - after a reasonable period of time after it was constructed. I think this is a matter of Council decision whether streets should be assessed or not assessed. The village has a regular maintenance pro- gram on streets - I believe it's every four years they patch and sealcoat, and that certainly is not assessed against the abutting property owners and it would be a matter of how bad the street would break up. I question whether or not Nursery Hill, with the amount of construction you might see going in would break up substantially because it's a good designed 7-ton street and it would take a lot of traffic, and I mean heavy traffic. MR. ERICKSON: We've had it. MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: Have you noticed any breakup on the street? MR. ERICKSON: Little cracks here and there - not big chunks. MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: The last time I drove through I didn't notice it. MR. ERICKSON: There's one spot by Compton which has settled six or eight inches along the curbline along with some other driveways that have been backed into by heavy equipment because they couldn't turn around on the end. Mr. Schultz's concrete driveway has been busted up on the end because the man couldn't turn around in the mud so he backed up his bulldozer and busted it, but they do pile up in there. It's improved' since they put in a wider cul-de-sac, but up until the middle of the summer it was pretty rough. ACTING MAYOR WOODBURN: I would assume if any connection went in to any road from Nursery Hill Court that would be used by a large amount of construction equipment. MR. ERICKSON: We presumed that the heavy equipment would be coming in from the development from behind my house (inaudible) MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: I think in any portion of the village that's undeveloped the existing residential streets do provide the access to the undeveloped property and you can understand there isn't a Hamline Avenue or through street to each piece of property that's undeveloped, so to develop that area, primarily you have to use residential streets to get in and out and that's why we design residential streets as high as we do and for longevity also, but you have to gain access to the property sometimes through residential streets. It's inconvenient, I'm sure, but this isn't the only area where the Council has been faced with this problem. 13