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so the road is eligible for use of state funds, which are only to be used on these special kinds of roadways like this to do some improvements. We have a five year capital improvement program, where we go around and try to rate all the streets in the City and determine an overall program for improving them. Some of you may be interested - this one ranked highest as far as what should be done next. The roadway - since it's on an MSA system - means that existing single family property - where almost all of you live - are not assessed. Council policy is that single family property not be assessed for these improvements. The only assessment being contemplated - and the reason there is an assessment hearing (inaudible) to let you know it's being considered - is where the apartments are up by Rice Street. That is not a single family location - which I don't have to tell you people - there's more than one person that lives there - so they're going to be getting an assessment, although even there it's not a major assessment per foot. The roadway - since to qualify for these state aids, however - to make a free roadway for you - means that you have to abide by the state rules. For instance, one of the things that we've been talking about all night is roadways that are 32 feet wide, face to face. One of the rules for the state is that the absolute minimum they'll allow is 34 feet, and that's only where there's fairly small traffic volume. To you I'm sure, along County Road C-2, there's a lot of traffic, but compared to a lot of other streets around that are collec- tor streets - it's really not that high. We're proposing that this road be only 34 feet wide - only two feet different than the 32 feet all the other streets are being proposed at. So it's almost identical. MAN IN AUDIENCE: How wide is it now? MR. HONCHELL: It's 28 to 29. It's almost identical to the same width we've been talking about all night for residen- tial streets. It would be one foot wider on each side. The state also says that it has to be a little heavier road, so we'll put a couple more inches of asphalt and make it nine tons instead of seven tons. It will have the same identical concrete curb and gutter on each side and, again, the six inch high curb. The existing street, as I said, is 28 to 29 feet wide. It does have a li~tle wider right-of-way than most streets - 66 feet wide instead of 60. There's another three feet out there on each side. The roadway is in fair condition - at least in some cases. The grades are not too bad except right where it comes down to Western - it's fairly steep right there. The driveways range from almost flat to about 10%. Again, some don't conform to the standards. The yards are fairly typical. I mentioned the traffic - at the western end it's really small - it's kind of residential sized - only 425 cars a day. By the time you get out to the Rice Street end, you're up to about 1375 cards a day, which -2-