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1 . . . , " improvement for Lexington Avenue from 800 feet north of County Road F - that's the Control Data south driveway, where the present construction project (inaudible) - up to County Road G-2. The primary cost for the project is proposed to be paid for through the County/State aid highway gas tax funds receipts dedicated for Ramsey County. The overall cost of the project, including signals and miscellaneous other aspects of it, is estimated to be $1,700,000 and we feel that the majority of that money, with the exception of approximately $150,000 which we're asking to participate in from the municipalities and another $20,000 from county road and bridge funds set aside for path construction - the remaining portion is proposed to come from the gas tax dollars. A brief overview of the project - I've papered the wall up here behind the Council with the latest plan. We had a plan up earlier which - some decisions were made on a path. Maybe I should start with that. The plan encompasses both the roadway of the improvement and the construction of the detached bituminous path - eight feet wide from end to end - associated with the path construction. The original plan was here that some of you might have seen - it involved the path. In some places on the east side - we met with path committees, park committees and whatnot in public meetings. The present plan, as being presented here at the public hearing, has the path entirely on the west side, from County Road F to 'County ~ Road G-2, plus the addition of a little bit of path .on the east side in the vicinity of Trunk Highway 96 - from the service road on the south to the shopping center on the north. Also, there was a second plan which was an intermediate plan that we had here at. an informational meeting, prior to meeting with some homeowners. I don't think you could see that detail in that plan - I do have a detailed plan here for your investigation if you want to look at it. We have shifted the road slightly - just north of Victoria, between Amble and Pleasant Circle - and moved a proposed retaining wall off of private property onto the County Road right-of-way. Also, this present plan reflects - across the low land north of 96, in the vicinity of G-2 - approximately a foot and a half grade raise, which was recommended by the Minnesota Department of Transportation soils section. So with the exception of those changes and probably some other minor ones that I've overlooked, the plan here then is what has developed out of the prior two plans that we had before you. Basically the concept is still the same. We're proposing a 68 foot roadway at the south end - to continue the existing section that is now under construction to the north driveway of Control Data and there tapering it down into a S2 foot wide section and carrying it through to G-2, with the exception of some widening in the area of 96 to provide left turn pockets and left turn actuations for the signal modification at Trunk Highway 96. -2-