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you are. Tne grades are fairly flat near Lexington and get up to about 5% as you go up the hill toward Victoria. Soils vary - t~ere are some sandy sections, some clay sections and, according to soil borings, some peat sections. This is also one of the reasons why the road is in such a sorry condition. The driveways vary as well. There are a few flat ones, mostly normal ones, and some real problems in this section. The road is much lower than the garages and some very steep grades exist. Again, the yards are fairly compatible to the road, again except for the south side of the road in particular. The south side of the road is much higher than the pavement - for the most part all along. No particular problems with trees, although there are some trees out in the boulevard and we don't see those as any- thing of note on this project. We won't have to be wiggling around t..l1em or anything else. Utilities - again, we have no known problems with utilities. These would be checked, however, prior to the work being done if the project is approved. In this case, mailboxes are on both sides. There are some on the north and some on the south, so there's no special condition as to which side might be better or worse for that no-parking condition that an M.S.A. has to meet. Tne proposal is really identical to the one you saw a few minutes ago on Oakcrest. The absolute minimum the State will allow is 34 feet - 17 to the north, 17 to the south - concrete curb and gutter on both sides, the same nine-ton design you just saw earlier, a little bit of repair on the sod on each side. Again, a bituminous pavement with an aggregate underlay and any of the bad peat material we encounter would be dug out before- the paving itself was done. We do propose to make some altera- ~ions in the road, however, if all these things are passed tonight, especially in this section where the road is so much lower than the homes and the yards. We would like to raise the road from six inches to two feet, depending on where, to match the yards that are there. and the drives and to try to help some of those driveway problems,- between Aglen and Chatsworth on Brooks. The roadway would be essentially in the middle. As we said, we do hope to do this project, frankly, if the storm sewer is approved. If the storm sewer is not approved, then it would be our recommendation that the road not be upgraded. We feel it is a bad investment to rebuild a street without havino the proper drainage facilities to protect that street and gi~e it it's integrity: over the design life. Another piece of informa- tion for you is that as the storm sewer was done - it was generally assumed that if the storm sewer passed, in all , probability the street would also pass. Again, it's a free street and the street is in bad shape. Therefore, we would not be expending some $90,000 that it would take to patch that street back together again after it was torn out for th'e storm sewer - if the storm sewer passes. It doesn't seem like a good investment to us to spend $90,000 just to patch it back behind the storm sewer construction and leave it yet in as bad condi- tion as it is today. 9