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. the land and put the streets in straight - not at all. We've made an effort ,here to put the roads where the'terrain tells us, so there's minimum grading. We also, you'll notice, between the two cul-de-sacs - that's where the woods are - we put a minimum of streets in there. An older plan that was proposed for this land - the former owners put across - had a full loop road there and we cul-de-saced for the very reason you mention - preserve trees. We intend to preserve trees just as much as we can. They're valuable to us as sales tools. We wouldn't cut down a tree - in fact, very frequently I go through and work with the people who are marking the trees and if there's one on the line - leave it. Then we go back and when we try to pave the darn thing and grade for sewer, we have to take another tree. We keep it to a minimum when we can. MAYOR WOODBURN: Mr. Christo~fersen, in the feasibility report, how much grading is anticipated in the road? Do you have any idea of any grading that might go on? MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: The grading is being covered by the developer - they'll do the grading. I believe that he should address that question about how much. Under general improve- ments with a developer, the way the City has operated in the past, the developer performs a site grading to his specifica- tions and then the City builds the street to match the grade that he grades. That seems to work out much better. As Mr. Laughinghouse indicated, he is ready to conduct his grading operation to preserve as many trees as possible. Obviously, I think that in any grading operation, as far as trees and as far as the street is concerned, you can expect at least the right- of-way to be cleared of trees. MR. WALTER DUNNETT, 1541 Oak Avenue: When you say lot - would that be the 95 foot expanse? MR. POPOVICH: An average lot. MR. WALTER DUNNETT: Our property is running along the left side - the west side of old Snelling there - we have that land and the pond in there and the railroad tracks. So it's probably roughly 300 feet of land, I guess, plus the pond. So I'm obviously interested in what we're talking about there. MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: He could develop three lots. There would be three unit assessments across that property. . MR. DUNNETT: If you develop two, they'd obviously be bigger, but would that be two unit assessments or would it still be for 95 or 100 feet or whatever it is? MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: I suppose that would be two. I guess it's a question of how many on the frontage and the character. By the time you get into this area here, it's getting rather low. 7