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improvement was investigated by the engineering staff as a result of the first petition and a study was done. We found that the roadway was approximately 29 feet wide - as it stands today - and a 60 foot right-of-way. It has less than 500 vehicles a day. The pavement is in fair condition, reasonable grades of between one and three percent for the most part. The adjacent yards are a little higher than the centerline. There are some trees along the right-of-way, but not very close to the existing pavement. Some of the driveways are fairly steep, ranging up to as much as 15%, and nearly all the drive- ways conform to the code. The proposed design is for what's called a standard residential pavement. By that I mean it would be centered in the right-of-way, it would be approximately 32 feet wide - that's face of curb to face of curb. So that I can give you a feel for what that means - if you could sort of imagine just sitting a curb and gutter on the pavement on each side. That's approximately what it would be like as far as width and location. The investigation showed that we would generally duplicate the existing pavement, but we would be able to adjust it several inches in some cases to better match some of the adjacent yards and driveways. It was found that there would not be a need to remove any of the trees. We would be able to replace the existing paved driveways and we did also find one water service problem in the past that we wanted to investigate because it had frozen in by-gone years. The improvement also includes the block of Iona from Galtier to Matilda. This is due to our general policy of doing side streets at the same time that the frontage streets are done to avoid the problem of never having the side streets taken care of. Part of that is becaus~ the assessment policy, as it stands today, is that side yards - namely, all of those homes that you see shaded along Iona - would be assessed for ten percent of their frontage along Iona rather than the normal frontage that they would have to pay if they were on a regular frontage street, such as all the people along G~ltier. The general City policy has also been to assess 25% of the cost to the affected property owners along the road and to take into account any odd lot conditions that exist, although there are none in this particular project. As far as the cost, the estimated cost of this project is $119,270.17. It's estimated that 25% of that would be assessed, which would result in an assessment cost for this project alone at $11.72. Some of you that were at the earlier hearing may recall that there are other streets in the neighborhood that also were being considered and at the time of the March 14 hearing, the Council consolidated this project together with three other projects. with that consolidation, the amount of the assessment was lowered slightly to approximately $11.62. All of these are -2-