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there are several trees that would be impacted by this, as per our preliminary investigation. Fifteen trees are noted with the "X". Now, this is on the assumption that this road would be built as you've been hearing them this evening - 32 feet in width, centered in the right-of-way, meaning there is 16 feet from the middle of the road to the face of the curb, and then with the typical seven ton strenght road and the concrete curb and gutter beside it. That is the proposal that is formally being brought before the Council tonight. An alternative to that - this has been done in other locations in the City for the basis of saving trees - is to reduce the width of the street to 29 feet and to only have parking on one side. If that were to occur, again the preliminary investigation indicates that approximately half of these trees would then be able to be saved. So to repeat, it appears right now that IS trees would be impacted at the 32 foot width and approximately half of those would then be left un- touched if the 29 foot width were used, but that would mean no parking on one side, as a requirement. Should that ultimately be passed, it's the staff recommendation that the parking be allowed on the west side and banned on the east side. The reason for that being that the mailboxes are on the east side and that would allow free and uninhibited delivery of the mail service. MR. POPOVICH: This improvement, Mayor and members of the Council, has an estimated cost of $178,950.00. There are 3,523.9 assessable front feet. If it were 100% assessed it would be $50.78 per front foot. Based on the administration's recommenda- tion of 25%, it would be $12.70 per front foot. MAYOR DEMOS: Are there any written statements? MR. ANDRE: Mayor, we have received a petition, signed by 18 property owners, opposing the proposed improvement. Of those, three of those had signed the original petition, which contained approximately 43% of the frontage on Merrill. That would appar- ently reduce that by two or three percentage points. The peti- tion against would provide a 47% petition in opposition. There are several properties that didn't indicate one way or the other for the improvement. MAYOR DEMOS: I will open this hearing to the public and ask that each person come to the microphone, give your name and address and the address of the property to which you are referring if it's not your home address. MR. HAROLD MOLINE, 2806 Merrill: I would like to confront the desk. I have a problem - I have to get out of here, but I wan t to say something. There are about four things that I feel should be brought up. I have diabetes and it's starting to affect me. I'm going to have to get out of here fast. Nobody on this Council was here in 1961 when I fought to get a street improvement on Merrill. There were three things that were brought up tonight. One was the Fernwood project where they talked about Merrill Street water dumping onto Fernwood through a storm drain that goes down. That corrugated pipe is no longer used. When the storm sewers were put in and catch basins on Merrill Street were 2