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sample information as to what a standard street looks like, and then hopefully keep my presentation of each one of these ten fairly brief so we'd have time to answer any questions you may have. Starting, perhaps, with how the City assesses - routinely, on a residential street, the policy is that one-quarter - 25% - of the cost of doing that roadway is what gets assessed to those people that live along the roadway. For example, if it was a $40.00 per front foot cost and you had 100 feet of frontage, then that $40.00 would be divided by four, or $10.00 a foot. If you had 100 feet of frontage, that would mean you'd have a $1,000 assessment. Obviously, if you had a smaller lot, your assessment is correspondingly smaller. If you have a larger lot - the same process. The other portion is that if you live on a corner, what- ever your smallest dimension is of your lot, it's automatically considered the frontage. It doesn't matter where your address is, or which way your house faces - if you live on a lot that's 100 feet by 130 feet, the 100 foot side is dealt with as the front of the parcel. Again, since in many of these'cases there are side lots that are going to be considered - again, as per the City policy of when we do a frontage lot and then there's a side street adjacent to it - the side streets are considered to be done at the same time. Many of you on corner lots will be having a frontage improvement and one on your side. Again, the policy of the City is that only one-tenth of your distance along that side - up to a distance of 150 feet - would be assessed. Again, take that 100 foot lot by 130 foot lot - the 130 feet would be the side lot - you divide that by ten and you have thirteen assessable feet then that YOU'd have to pay on for the side street. That's quite a bit different than the 130 feet that you actually own along there. If you happen to have an odd or pie-shaped lot or an irregular-shaped lot, it's more or less converted into a typical rectangle for purposes of frontage. Mr. Strong, could I ask you to put the typical residential street up. Most of you have roadways that are 60 feet of right-of-way from your property line to that of your neighbors on the other side. The sixty feet in the middle is dedicated to the public for things like the roadway. Now most of you have pavement that is 28 or 29 feet wide - it varies street by street. The proposal would be to end up with a roadway that's .32 feet wide, generaly in the center of the right-of- way, measured from the face of one concrete curb to the face of the other concrete curb. You typically have a crown in the middle to help water drain to the edge and we construct concrete gutters along with the curbs on each side of the road to carry such storm water. The City provides for the openings to driveways at the same time the road work is being done and that's not at a special, added on cost. -2-