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\;";";';";";". fairly close to the road, some are back near the property line. There doesn't seem to be any specific pattern of exactly where they are - they wander around. WeIll talk more about those as we get into the project. The public utilities in this area - the sewer and water - to our knowledge are okay. They shouldn't have to be rebuilt. We will check them out before construction would take place if the project is approved, however. The storm sewer is also okay. However, there will probably be SOIDe relocating of catch basins and adjusting of them for the exact curb locations, if the project is passed, and the exact elevations. Lik~wise, there would be a couple more basins added to take care of some areas where weld like to get the water a little easier. The area also has a significant amount of NSP facilities right near the Hamline end. These are not your simple little two to four inch gas lines or electrical lines which you find buried along most road- ways. There's some major north-south feeder lines for NSP that go along Hamline and there are some vaults, there are some man- holes and varying structures you may not even be aware of, but they're buried out there near the southeast corner of Hamline and Oakcrest. As we talk further, these come into playa bit. Mailboxes and hydrants are generally located on the north side of the street. ,...:;:..- To get to the specific project that's being proposed at this time, a petition was received in the amount of 56% of the property involved and the Council then ordered a feasibility study to determine whether this project was logical and what it might result in and whether it should-in fact be done. I'll now go through the proposed improvement that has been preliminarily de- signed and try and let you know how we see the project probably being done if it's passed. l '- The proposed width is the minimum a"1lowed by the State. This is only in the case of fairly low lying roadways that they will even let anything get this small. It's 34 feet from face of curb to face of curb. It's proposed to be a bituminous material on the surface - asphalt to most of you - and a crushed rock base material. "This is what's called a nine-ton design. All that really means is that this road will then be built in a manner that would allow nine-ton axle loads to occur in a reasonable frequency without tearing it apart in twenty years. There's no special magic in terminology - it just means it's going to be a substantial heavy-duty roadway. It's the require- ment of the State that all the roads be built to a nine-ton design. It's proposed to have concrete curb and gutter on each side with the so-called straight up and down type face. Not precisely up and down, but this is the standard that we use in most of our projects. I'm sure you've seen many of them around. If you happen to have driven up in the Lydia area - between Hamline and Snelling - in the last year, this is exactly the kind of curb that was built up there as well, for another M.S.A. job. 3