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requirement of the state to get the road through - I think I'll have to accept that - but I wanted to ask you whether the widening - does it occur equally on each side? How is that determined? MR. HONCHELL: Except for the portion very near Western Avenue - where I said we're going to try and improve the stopping ability right there - we're going to be placing the road on the center of the right-of-way, equal on each side. MR. CURTISS TROUT, 341 West County Road C-2: I have several concerns, one about your comments about Western Avenue and the right-of-way - what you're going to do there. Cer- tainly there's a problem - especially (inaudible). It's almost impossible to go down to that stop sign without sliding, no matter what car you're driving. I am concerned, though, about widening the street. That's the biggest concern I have here tonight. When I moved in here about five years ago, one of the things that attracted me to County Road C-2 was that it wasn't (inaudible) County Road C. We have considerable traffic that goes through there, well above the speed limit. I have children, I have a dog that was. hit by people driving through there fast - I really don't want to see County Road C-2 made any more attractive for people flying through the neighborhood. If you can make it crooked, go ahead and do it - slow them down - put in speed bumps. I'm concerned about the safety of my family. I think you've made some very constructive comments about parking. It's a problem that we have - not being able to see out of our driveways with cars parked there. You addressed those very adequately and I thank you, but I am concerned about making this street more palatable - more attractive - to people leaving the marketplace and heading to the eastern parts of Roseville. I'd like to see that traffic directed down Rice and over on County Road C - roads that are much more designed to handle it and that don't have the residential concerns. MR. HONCHELL: We also don't want to see cross City traffic on that street. . I suppose you could take the same approach - will traffic now be using Farrington, Matilda, Galtier - all of those streets - just because they're paved. It's been our experience that that doesn't happen. The people that are making the trips right now are doing so because they either live right there in the area or, in their opinion, they're saving time between where they're going and where they're corning from. We haven't seen large volume increases in other places in the City where we've made improvements. People go right on through - if they're a rotten driver that speeds and runs over dogs - they're going to do it today and they're going to do it in the future. We find we can't sign and make them stop or legislate and make them stop. A careless driver is a careless driver. -4-