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3 particular case the crown is quite a ways over and fairly near the western edge. The reason for that being that allows us the ability to let the crown of the road work for us instead of against us so that the roadway can get lower and lower as it goes to the south side, again to better match the south side of the road where we certainly recognize there's a difference in elevation. I will try and give you a feel. This is not the way it is in every foot of the road, but to illustrate what we're trying to do as part of this proposal, the black lines are the proposed road. The red lines are, generally speaking, what's there today. (inaudible) the location of the edge of that asphalt varies from zero to five feet from the proposed edge of the roadway, and it also varies on the south side from two to eight feet, depending on where you are. One of the points I want to make is that, again, the existing roadway generally has a routine crown, slopes down to the north and slopes down to the south. You know there is a difference between the proposed elevation of the road and the existing elevation of the road. It is shown lower, not so that you can see it easier, but so again we can match, especially that south side of the road by having the pavement somewhat lower than it is today. With this approach we feel the side slopes that would be down outside the curbs, these would go up slightly normally and go down on a side slope that almost all of that sloping can be done in the right-of-way rather than getting in the private property. There are a couple instances where it will go slightly beyond that, but most done in the right-of-way rather than in your yards. There are no retaining walls proposed because we feel we can end up with reasonable slopes in the right-of-way. This does, even though it's in the right-of-way, still result in a number of trees being impacted. There are approximately l7 trees that we feel would not be there if this project goes in. Seventeen trees would have to be removed. Predominantly those are on the south side, although some are on the north as you get closer and closer to Rice Street. One of the things that we try to do is match into the existing driveways. Where they don't match exactly, the project would include the reconstruction of that portion of the driveway that's impacted. Some of the most severe grades on existing driveways, surprisingly enough in several cases, can actually be improved rather than a detriment so far as this project is concerned. Four of the driveways would improve 4% to 6%. Several others, the best we can do is match them, but we attempted to have it done so we didn't make those severe driveways worse than they are. Once again, as in the case of the prior project, since it's an H.S.A. road, we wanted to at least explore the possibility of whether there should be a pathway. As most of you know, we have a (inaudible) park here and it extends (inaudible) there is a series of bike paths in the area, one of which comes down Marion.