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Assuming you already have a bituminous driveway or concrete driveway, these would be replaced in kind as part of the project. If it's necessary to damage any of the sod adjacent to the existing road, that sod will also be put back in as part of the project, at no special cost to you adjacent home- owners. If we have to do some shaping of your yards or driveways, routinely back as far as your property line, that also is included. There are some driveways that exist that donlt meet the City standards, where there is some parking in boulevards, etc., we would go talk to the property owners involved and work out the best possible solution to solving those problems within the City Code limitations. This is a lot that came at you fairly fast and if you have questions later, that's understandable, but I thought if we could go through it once, it would maybe save a lot of uncertainties for you later. The first project under discussion tonight is Oxford Street from Brooks Avenue down almost to County Road B. As the people in the neighborhood know, the extreme southern portion was already paved a few years ago, near County Road B-2, when that improvement was done in the neighborhood for those homes. Again, this proposal would be to convert the roadway that's about 28 feet wide now. The pavement is in fair to poor condition, depending on where you are. It has some fairly flat grades at one end and approximately five percent grades at the other end. The driveways are not too bad; however, there is one driveway that slopes away from the street towards the home and at least one other one that's up to approximately nine percent. We'd do what we could to improve this condition, but obviously we can't take a driveway that's nine percent steep and turn it into one that's almost flat. This project was petitioned for by the property owners, with a representation of 80% of the people along the roadway signing this petition. The proposal would be to put a standard roadway in, which is seven ton, asphalt pavement, 32 feet wide, centered in the right-of-way, and as close as possible to match the existing grades. ACTING MAYOR JOHNSON: I might suggest, just to speed things up at this point, are there any questions as to the general description of how tnese determinations are made? WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: That road doesn't appear to be that bad. ACTING MAYOR JOHNSON: We'll get to the specific roads one by one. I was just wondering if there were any general questions now as to the materials that were presented. Please state your name. -3-