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2 in the area are well aware, the existing terrain, mainly the elevations of the ground on the north side in many cases are several (inaudible) different than the elevations on the south side, and once again, these vary. Some are relatively close, some are markedly different between the north side and the south side. There are quite a few fairly steep driveways, especially on the south side, ten of which today are 10% or greater in grade. In fact, in some cases they're up into the twenties. There are some steep drives that are already there. There are also large numbers of trees that are in existence along the right- of-way and in the right-of-way, again especially on the south side, one reason being that the roadway being on the north portion, people have utilized that right-of-way for (inaudible) and putting in plantings. The existing traffic on this roadway is relatively low as M.S.A. roads go. The traffic varies from 600 to somewhere around 1200 to 1300, depending on which end and what portion of the road you're on. To some of you that seems like a lot of traffic, but as MSA roads go, that's not so great. The last project was having three times that 600 traffic and was expected to go considerably higher because more traffic would go across Lydia because of (inaudible). Minnesota is at this point, for all intents and purposes, built up. I think there are two more parcels left. It doesn't continue (inaudible) Dale and has very little on the other side of Rice and the existence of Highway 36 eliminates extensive traffic getting into it because there's no access. The proposed improvement would be to construct a 34-foot wide roadway. The reason that this one can be considered at 34 feet when the last one had to be 36 is because of the difference in the traffic. The state has standards and those standards do relate to the traffic volume so the fact that this has slightly lower traffic volume allows this to be a slightly narrower roadway. The standard roadway, as in the past project, is 44 feet face to face. It is proposed to have a 34 foot roadway face to face with concrete curb and gutter, bituminous paving and the material under it. I hope you don't get too confused with the line. This particular line shows the center of the street as proposed. You will note that it's three feet away from the centerof the right-of-way. The proposed road is not being proposed to be built right in the middle of the right-of-way. It's proposed to be built three feet north to better match the existing situation. Also, we are fully aware of the fact that the property is higher on the north side than the south for the most part, so you notice that while most pavements have the crown, or the highest part of the road in the middle of the street, in this