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of Transit Avenue. That, plus the fact that the existing road- way is in very poor condition, is very narrow, quite flat in grades, and poorly drained, has substandard base material which needs to be replaced, and will in all likelihood, as this con- struction takes place, be in q~ite a state of turmoil and under considerable stress due to the construction itself, namely, the heavy equipment going down it, the construction vehicles bringing materials to the site, and even when the homes are done, the moving vans coming to and fro. There's going to be considerable stress on this area of Transit. Because of these reasons, the staff has recommended that it be considered at this time that Transit Avenue be brought up to a permanent roadway condition. To do this, we have looked at two different ways that it might occur. The first is that from Galtier Street to the edge of the commercially zoned property near Rice, a typical 32 foot wide, 7 ton design con- crete curb and gutter roadway be placed. This is identical to what is proposed on the cul-de-sacs, and what exists on Ga1tier Circle, and actually what exists down Transit for the remainder of the way. Approximately 300 feet - it is proposed to be somewhat thicker in design, namely a 9 ton design limit. The reason for this is it's currently unknown just what will happen in these two commercially zoned areas. It's likely there will be driveways in and out somewhere in this area, and also likely that whatever entry points are necessary to serve these com- mercial activities and the trucks to supply supplies to them will be in this easterly 300 feet. If we really knew for sure what was going to be there I might say it's not necessary to build this to a 9 ton limit, or I might say it's very important. This is simply a precautionary measure so we have what is Alternate 3 which means all of the things we talked of before - the utilities, the watermains, paving, plus building Transit at 7 ton up to about 300 feet from Rice and 9 ton for the remainder. We have what is called Alternate 3A - same set of everything except this time Transit Street is entirely a 7 ton roadway. Once again, however, when we talk of Alternate 3A it does include the other utilities and paving projects. One thing that you should know, although Mr. Popovich will be bringing you several figures and statistics, the city special assessing policy for these kinds of roadways calls for the side lots to be assessed at only 10% of their length. An example would be this lot. This lot is lonqer on this side than it is this way, and we didn't show the back lot line, but this is the longest distance. The city code says that regardless of which way the house faces, where the garage is, or anything else, the front shall be whatever the shortest side is on a corner lot. The side lot shall be whatever the lonqest side is. In this case, this is the longer side so it would be assessed only 10% of that distance times the assessment rate. 3