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roadway. Drainage occurs generally from north to south and is picked up in an existing pair of catch basins at the intersection of Terrace Drive and Merrill Street. The drainage facilities are adequate and there is no proposal to modify them appreci- ably. The driveways and boulevard areas on each side of the street are generally moderate in grade and, as you can see from the overhead, there are existing trees on either side of the roadway along the full length of Merrill Street. The proposed construction is for a City standard, seven ton, residential street with concrete curbs on both sides of the roadway and with a new asphalt surface. Typically, a residen- tial street in Roseville is a 32 foot wide street from face of curb to face of curb. As you saw in the previous slide, there are numerous trees along both sides of ~his roadway so it is proposed, in that case, to reduce the roadway width from the standard 32 feet to 29 feet. The second action proposed is to move the alignment of the roadway slightly to the west, starting about mid-block of the street and going to the north. We feel those two actions will increase the distance from the construc- tion to the existing trees and we feel confident that none of these trees will have to be removed as a result of the construc- tion. The roadway grades along the road would generally match those of the roadway which are there today. The major differ- ence is that there will be quite a bit more pronounced cross- slope or crown in the road and there will be more consistent longitudinal grades draining toward the drainage structures in Terrace Drive. Building a 29 foot roadway instead of the 32 foot Roseville standard width roadway will require, on one side of the ro~dway, to have parking prohibited on it. The staff really doesn't have a preference - one side of the roadway or the other - but we might suggest that it might make some sense to prohibit the parking on the east side since this is the side of the road that has mailboxes, which are there today, and prohibiting parking will encourage freer mail delivery. Before Mr. Popovich gives a few of the specifics on the proposed assessments for this improvement, I might take a moment at this time to explain how the assessments for corner lots are calculated. A typical rectangular interior lot, like most of these along this street - the determination of assess- able footage is really quite simple. It's simply the width of the frontage on these lots which abuts the roadway. A corner lot is a little more difficult in that the assessable footage depends both on the geometry of the lot and, obviously, which roadway is under construction. For the purposes of an example, I'll talk about this lot on the corner of Terrace Drive and Merrill Street. Every corner lot has a front and a side and for assessment purposes the front of a lot is simply defined as the shorter of those two sides. It doesn't matter which direction your house faces, it doesn't matter onto which street your driveway exits, it doesn't matter on which street your 2