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7 MR. BERTHIUME: No. MR. FLORIAN DOSTERT, 727 Lovell: The problem is that we have a street that's about 25 feet wide. I back my car out of the driveway, there's a car in back of me across the street, I have to jig-saw back and forth to get out. Several years ago we built the fire barns, we have the Whittier apartments, the Rose of Sharon Home and these four new homes, three occupied. (inaudible) If they want to get on Highway 36 their best pet is to use County Road B-2 or come down Lovell, Lovell being south of County Road B-2 they'll use Lovell, so we definitely need this widening of the street. And another thing, about 11 or 12 years ago we had a little boy killed because of this (inaudible) he was speeding, but he was still killed and I think I have been putting up with this since September of 1953 and I think that something should be really done. So, I'm in favor. Incidentally, I'm the petitioner. MR. TOM TRIEMERTS, 711 Lovell: I've lived there about four and a half years and I always felt that street was too damn narrow. I still feel so. When you come from Victoria it takes a jog at Grotto. There's not room to park one car on one side of it, much less two on each side. Like my neighbor said, you can't get out of your own driveway with a car on the other side of the street. It's unfortunate that these new people have to come into a siguation like this. They have their grass down and it should have been done years ago, but was shelved maybe because of the O'Neill Enterprise. I'm in favor of widening that street. MR. WILLIAM HOFMEISTER, 681 Lovell: On the corner of St. Albans. This street is a racetrack for the simple fact of that apartment building (inaudible) when anybody comes off Highway 36 to get to the apartment buildings they have to use Dale or Lexington. There's no entrance or exit on Lexington so they're compelled to use Dale or to use Lexington, so now if you take that street and widen it, shift it over, take 15 feet away from the property owners - by the way I live on the north side - (inaudible) . On the south side if you take 15 feet off of their property and get a good foggy morning, one of these gentlemen is going to come out of his house and might end up on a hood ornament. They wheel through there and I've tried to get the City to put a ghost patrol out there. They put a car out there and the guy can see it from two blocks away. That doesn't help. As the street is per se, on a scale from 1 to 10, what would you rate the street today? MR. HONCHELL: In comparison to others? MR. HOFMEISTER: As it is right today, what would you rate it from one to ten? MR. HONCHELL: In the upper half. MR. HOFMEISTER: I concur with your agreement to the fact that when you have a pothole road, let's get rid of it so we don't have to spend money day after day but I don't think we should fatten a fat cat that is over in the oil industry now when we got something that's working for us right now, and as far as concrete goes, let