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gutter on each side and it would be essentially what you people refer to probably as a straight up and down or vertical curb. The reason for the vertical curb in this case - while you have seen some that sort of slope back - is because here all of the homes are in and we know where the driveways are going to be. So we won't have to be tearing that curb out in the future and we can build this curb, which is preferred. It's proposed to have a bituminous - again what you might call an asphalt pavement on an aggregate base. This would leave approximately l4. feet from the face of the curb back to your property line. There is a right- of-way on this street - it is, 60 feet wide. If I could have the other picture back for a moment. It is anticipated that the only tree problem that may occur on this job are three trees at the extreme southerly end of the project, located at - it would be 24, 33, 39 and 45 Cohansey. It's not certain that these trees would have to be removed, but we wanted you to know that there's the possibility of that. In most cases you can't absolutely know until you actually do the construction, and as they do the exca- vation then we can find out exactly where the roots are and what damage may be occurring to these roots. But we~wanted to list them to at least let you know what may occur on the project. I will go over this one in a little more detail than perhaps some of the other hearings, so you can hear it once and I won't have to repeat it every time. As part of the reconstruction of this type of roadway, the City tries, as best it can, to match or even improve the grades of the street - ~n other words, how it tips up and down - so that it can meet the driveways and so it can meet the front yards. Obviously it's impossible to exactly match to the inch everyone of these, because that's one of the reasons for doing the improvement - to provide better grades and better drainage. Therefore, in most cases, there is a couple of inches up or a couple of inches down where the street matches your driveway opening. When that occurs, the City, as part of the project, would be sloping from that new roadway surface to your existing driveway an amount that - we can't tell right now until we get in each lawn - but that would match in and slope in and blend in to your existing driveways. Now, this is part of the project, there is no special cost added to that, whether you have it done to your yard or your driveway or whether you don't. In some cases, this might only mean two or three feet. In other cases it may mean going all the way back to that property line, 14 feet away. I don't anticipate it in this particular project, but conceivably it could mean going all the way back to the garage. I don't believe there are any like that in this job, but we would replace the driveway. If you have an asphalt driveway, we would put asphalt back in; if you have a concrete driveway, we would put concrete back in. Usually it means taking two or three feet of sod along the edge because they have to dig a hole slightly wider than where the curb and gutter will be so that the machine can place the curb and gutter. After the curb and gutter is done and the bituminous work is done, then they would come back in and replace that sod, again slope it in so that it blends into your front yard. Again, there is no special cost to you, in front of your home, whether that happens or whether it doesn't happen. It's merely part of the project. That concludes my presentation. 2