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In L~is particular case, the staff has no real pro or con as to where the parking should be - north side or south side. The driveways aren't that different from the north side to the south side, the mailboxes aren't, the hydrants aren't - there's no special reason whether it should be banned on the north side or whether it should be banned on the south side. To at least give a recommendation to the Council to start the discussion, however, our recommendation is to not have parking on the south side. The best answer we can come up with is that at least that will leave it open so anyone driving along the street will have more of an opportunity to view down into beautiful Central Park. Did I say parking on the north or south? No parking on the north. I want people to see how nice Central Park looks. If there's a sentiment by the people in the crowd, the staff has no objection to that being reversed. The last project being discussed in this area tonight is that of Aglen Street between Brooks on the north and Transit on the south. You'll remember earlier it was proposed to have a pipe come the entire length of Aglen up to the intersection of Transit. With that, that means tearing out about half of the street. This roadway has an existing width of about 30 feet. It's in fair condition right now - not too bad. The roadway right-of-way is 60 feet and it's near the center of the right- of-way. It's grade is 6% to 7% - a little bit steeper than we like, but that's the way it is. Soils are sandy clay. Two or three of the driveways do have back grades. By that I mean the garages are lower than the street, which means instead of the water draining away from the house toward the street, in this' case the reverse happens. Tnere are also a couple of driveways that ,are about 10% higher than the street. Since we can't solve . both, we're essentially proposing to leave it just about the way it is. Those people with steep driveways will still have steep driveways and those people with r~verse falls will still have reverse falls. To solve either of those would be to com- pound the problem of the other set. We feel we're better off just leaving it about,where it's at. The soils are no particu- lar problem, as I said. The yards generally match the road. There are some trees in the boulevard, but we feel they're far enough back that they won't be a particular problem to the construction. No known problems with the utilities. We've heard some reports of some possible problems wiL~ the sanitary sewer - before the work would be done we would go..out and televise that sewer just to make sure it was in good shape before we paved over it. We don't want to pave over it and come back and tear it right up again. This time the proposed road is not an M.S.A. street. It's a standard residential street design, so instead of being 34 or more feet, it's proposed to be 32 feet wide, a seven-tone design, which simply means it isn't quite as strong because it doesn't have to carry as many trucks and it doesn't have to carry as much traffic. Again, a bituminous wearing material with the crushed rock sub-base, 16 feet on each side of the center line being shown as proposed. Again, concrete curb and 10