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\;:::::::: r.,~" ( . '-. earmarked only to be used by cities. Those cities can only use those funds for the maintenance and upgrading to a standard which the State sets for these specific roadways. Generally speaking, these roadways are the higher volume roads or the collector streets that run between county roads and State high- ways. In this case it's Oakcrest, which - as you can see a little bit from the map - has several streets running to it and then it runs out to Hamline and out to Lexington. The advantage of this is that by having the State funds available, the City is then able to establish a policy whereby there are no special assessments charged to the single family and dup~ex property owners along these M.S.A. roads for the reconstruction of them to bring them up to the State's standards. The only catch in that is that you must build them to the State's standard. This is not what the City might like or not like. If you're going to have a free street versus a street you're assessed for, then the roadway must be built to the standards of the State. With that in mind, we'll progress along on Oakcrest and you'll see what some of these situations are. Oakcrest has fairly light traffic volumes as M.S.A. streets go. There are about 720 cars a day that were counted as being near the western end at Hamline and about 365 cars a day that are near the Lexington end. You can see this is not a great big thoroughfare. The existing road width varies depending on exactly where you are along the street, from about 28 to 32 feet. Pavement conditions likewise vary today. Some of the road is in fairly good shape, others have been patched several times - they're in fairly poor shape. The particular alignment of that road, within the 60 foot right-of-way, is generally in the center of the right-of-way. However, it does vary back and forth several feet so that it's difficult to relate to the f.act that your property line is ten feet or twelve feet or fifteen feet or eight feet from where the pavem~nt is today, because it does tend to wander around in the right-of-way. The grades are fairly normal, from a little bit flat half-percent or so up to about five percent. All of these .are within the standard design parameters one would use for a road of this kind. The soil also has some variety in it. Some of it is a silty sand, some of it is a sandy clay. There are no known major bad spots - peat, black dirt, logs - all sorts of interesting things are found in some places. We don't know of any special problems under this street. There have been some soil bores taken and they haven't indicated that. The driveways are fairly typical for the most part, except as you begin to get near the Lexington end - there are some driveways that are fairly steep. We have one that is approxi- mately 14%, which is quite steep. The yards also generally match the existing road. Boulevard areas have numerous trees located out in the boulevard. These vary in size - many of them are Elms, but there are different types - some are fairly small and might be able to be relocated; some are fairly signifi- cant and substantial and could never be relocated. Some are 2