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\.:.:.::.:.:" ,..c___ ( '- . and Fernwood, we're again proposing this to be in the middle of the right-of-waYI the same standard 34 foot wide road we talked about a moment ago. Again, fairly well matching into all the driveways and the yards. Again, no special problem is seen here. As we go along through the remainder of this route, there will be numerous cases where there may be a ~ush, a very small tree, these sorts of things, that might have to be relocated, but we would do that as part of the project rather than a cost to the individual. We would put these back on your own personal property. Somehow they ended up out in the righ~-of-way rather than being back on the private property. Coming between Fernwood to the north and Fernwood to the south, again there are several bushes, fences, small materials out in the right-of-way, but we don't feel we will have to impact into them to the point of removing any major trees. We feel we can work around those. As we come around the curve, there is a pond that sits back in this area - for those of you who aren't familiar - we propose to put a couple of catch basins in this location. There is a low spot here that doesn't drain properly and we'd like to pick the water up. Again, we don't anticipate any special problems matching "into the yards or driveways. As we head easterly around the bend, we do begin to pick up some problems. The problems are that there are about ten major trees located on both the north and the south side of Oakcrest that are pretty tight right now to the pavement and the pavement is just a little narrower than what it will have to be. If we put the road right in the middle, it appears we would have, instead of the best of both worlds, the worst of both worlds. We would be taking the trees along the north side and the south side. I'd like to tell you I'm Solomon and I can somehow look into your minds and figure out which of you no longer wants to have that Elm tree or whatever variety is standing in front of your home, but I can't. I really don't wish to be the one to say that I like the people on the north side, so we'll move the road south and therefore save all the north trees and lose all the south trees, or vice-versa. Fortunately, we feel we have a fairly decent solution. The proposal is to move the road four feet to the north near Lexington as it comes through here and then swing it back down and move it four feet to the south as it starts into the curve. In doing that, we feel we can save eight out of those ten trees. I can't say I personally know whoever owns that tree or this tree, and I'm really sorry, but we felt that this was trying to do the best for the roost. We felt if we could save eight of those ten trees, we were doing a pretty good job. There are two trees - I don't remember now just which lots they fallon, or maybe they're right on the lot line - that by doing this would be removed. However, we look at it as saving eight trees instead of taking two trees, assuming there is a project, of course. The other advantage of doing that is that there are some driveways in these locations that are fairly steep and by starting off with the road off to the north a bit, we are better able to get in to help those driveways 5