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\;.,.:.:.: "u-:., \ '- ...,... (5:: The location of this roadway is shown here for ease as being right in the middle of the 60 foot right-of-way. That's where we like to build them and that's routinely where we build them. As we talk about this project, we're proposing to not have the road stay entirely in the middle of the right-of-way because we feel we can better fit it into some of the problem locations if we vary that. Behind the curb, always a foo~ and a half or so, it's necessary to remove some sod and that gives some room for slope - two or three inches or what it may need to match the old yard into the curb and also to get the curb machines back in there to do the construction. It's not routinel~ necessary to go out all the way to the home or to the garage or into the middle of the yard to do these projects, as long as they're fairly close to the existing elevations. To walk through the project just a bit - beginning at the Hamline end, it's proposed to move the roadway about five feet south. The reason for doing that - that is, south of the middle of the road, so it will be a little bit off-center. Five feet south means that we would end up with probably about eight feet of boulevard still remaining. We're not talking about putting this right up to the property line. The reason for that is that there is a series of trees along the north side that are good mature trees and we would certainly like to save those trees if we can. We think there are about six trees up there that if we didn't move the road a little bit would be quite probably affected to the point where they may die. Many of them would simply have to be removed, others would probably die in a short time. First we would like to move the road about five feet south of where it comes into Hamline.' That would help with the tree problem. Second, we would also like to then end up with these NSP facilities being out in the roadway so all that would show would be a manhole cover, which many of you are familiar with seeing right now - there are lots of manhole covers already along the road. Otherwise these facilities will be sticking up right in the curb and gutter section where they're located. It's an almost impossible situation because they have to have access to their vaults and their manholes and you simply can't put that with half of the manhole sitting in the gutter, half of it sitting in the curb, and a little bit more spilled out in the grass area. There's one height here and there's another height six inches lower right beside it. It can't be level with both of them when they're two to three feet wide. By moving a little south, we also we feel can get these vaults to fit in the street and have nothing. but a manhole cover show. As we progress along, by the time we get to Dellwood, we would be back in the middle of the roadway again. The grades in this section would change very little. We feel we can match the driveways quite well. through this area and we don't antici- pate any particular boulevard problem. We also don't anticipate any major storm problem in that area. We will be adding a couple more basins just so the water can get picked up a little easier and a little faster than running it all the way down to the corner. As we continue to move easterly between Dellwood 4