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2 what you have in common. For instance, if the Council tonight would pass Eldridge, then we would be recommending that Pascal be done as part of our side street policy. If, on the other hand, they would only pass Belmont, we would be recommending that Pascal be done as part of our side street policy, trying to be fair to both streets, rather than say one should go with the side street or (inaudible), although I recommend to the Council that there be two votes because they are two separate petitions. I think it would be better if you reviewed them in total and try to sort out the pros and cons of both streets as well as those things they have in common. Before the obvious question comes up, we do not propose building the street only half way because the drainage and other things won't match. Starting with Eldridge, that street was developed in two portions. In the late 1950's Eldridge was built to the standard that prevailed at the time and there were a few utilities in place. By the time 1963 came - these two little squares are catch basins, and there is a storm sewer on this street down to the intersection. That's because in 1963 when this was done, it was required of a developer that he provide that drainage before the roadway was once again completed. The builder also met the requirements at that time of providing a little better roadway. They put better asphalt in, hopefully deeper. We, knowing this, and knowing the feeling of at least some of the people of the area that Eldridge was up to City standard so far as load carrying capabilities, perhaps all that needed to be done was put on curb and gutter on the side, had some soil sampling done in the 1970's, and to be sure where we were we had about five times that number done again. We found an extreme variation as far as asphalt depth on Eldridge and it's not east side versus west side, or north versus south side. In fact, we found five inches on one side of a hole that was a foot wide, and an inch on the other side. That makes it difficult when you try to design a street to determine just how much more asphalt has to be put over that street, so we asked the soil experts to give us their professional opinion of what the road carrying capability of Eldridge was. It was their opinion it was about two inches of asphalt and the material under it was not up to state standard for aggregate. We reached the conclusion it would not be effective to use that pavement and put curbs on the side because it did not have the strength carrying capability. We looked to the possibility of building it up with more asphalt, but as those of you living on the street (inaudible) many of your driveways are relatively flat and if we built it up several inches on some of the lots, suddenly the road would be higher than the driveway and the water would be ponded on the wrong side of the curb. Therefore, we came to the conclusion that the best approach would be to put in a uniform thickness of new pavement.