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in the right-of-way of C-2. So they stop. But that gives them a chance to burn a little bit of rubber and get a pretty good head of steam up by the time they get to my house, which is only four down the block. I've yelled at people more than once as they're going down our street, and I would estimate in excess of 30 miles an hour. There's no way I can see it, unless putting a stop sign at every intersection all the way down the whole darn road, of stopping this high speed travel. It would be a high price to pay, I think, in addition to the thousand or whatever dollars it would cost me, and my tree, to lose the life of only one child, not to mention some of the animals we've lost already to these people going down the street in excess of 30 miles an hour. I don't make too bad of a salary doing what I'm doing, probably a little bit over $20,000 a year. As inflation has hit us all, it's hit me as well. To throw on another $1,OOO to have to pay in 30 days would be impossible without selling my car or my dog or putting my child to work, who is nine years old, and to have it tacked on to my taxes would hurt me even more. I'm paying a reasonable amount of taxes now. Granted, these people that are building their new houses are paying $1800 to $2000 a year in taxes. But they can afford them, I would assume. If I could afford a $200,000 house, I could afford $1800 a year taxes. So, as you probably surmised, I'm against this project. I stand to lose a lot of landscaping, I stand to lose a good portion of a concrete driveway that I busted myself trying to put in, I stand to lose all the shrubbery I planted around my mailbox. Maybe it's immature for me to think only on my opinion and my small yard. But as you can see, I'm not the only one who stands to lose a great deal of vegetation. I am very concerned for the children, especially my own. She doesn't look either. She gets on her two wheel bike and zoom, out she goes. On several occasions there have been cars that have had to nearly stop or swerve out of her way to miss her. Not all of the children do this. To point out a typical example of this would be your C-2 addition west of Harnline Avenue, which in the last year or so was remodeled and you put'down these concrete curbs and gutters and widened the street. I've seen so many times - I even catch myself sometimes - exceeding the 30 mile an hour limit in the City. It's so easy to do. The street is so smooth and it's nice and wide and there are no trees to obstruct your view. Everybody is in a hurry to get to Snelling Avenue or back and there you go. Now you're going to create that same kind of atmosphere on residential streets too. It's bad enough we have Hamline, we have Snelling, Lexington, Woodhill, C-2, County Road C, all these freeways. It's not safe to ride your bike on these streets, let alone walk. And I walk a lot. So I'm opposed to this whole project. In my opinion, it's not something we really need here in Roseville. Possibly more parks, but certainly not curbs and gutters. Thank you very much. MAYOR DEMOS: I think we should confine our remakrs to Merrill and not other streets. Anyone else? MR. MARSHALL ANDERSON, 2851 Merrill: I live directly across the street from Dale Charboneau. I hope you'll still be a good neighbor after we get done tonight. Incidentally, I was there when his tree was planted. It was planted 27 years ago. 5