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some potholes - it's not awful - you can certainly drive it - but it does have some problems. The roadway as it stands today is approximately 29 feet in width with a bituminous road-mix sur- face. There are some trees along the right-of-way. These are not right up against it and we really don't anticipate any real tree problems. Tpere are several driveways coming out onto the road - most of these are fairly flat, as are the yards, and match the roadway quite well. The School District does have some drives that - we'll use the term "slope the wrong way". Normally yards and driveways slope toward the street - on the School Dis- trict property there are a co~ple that slope away from the street. The soil is of fairly decent sandy clay and we antici- pate no particular problems. We've investigated the sanitary sewers in the area and found no unusual problems with that. The roadway that's proposed to be constructed is what we call a typical residential design. It would be 32 feet wide, centered in the right-of-way, have a bituminous wearing surface and gravel underneath it to help carry the load. It's proposed that the curb and gutter be approximately six inches high and what's known as straightback curb - almost straight up and down. The reason we feel this is desirable is that it aids in snow plowing and aids in avoiding what we term "lawn jobs" - in the middle of the night suddenly you have tracks going across your greenery. It tends to better define and dress up the edge of the roadway. Where all of the land is developed, as in this case, that's possible to construct and it's our recommendation. The area in the boulevard would then be resodded where it may be affected, although we don't anticipate this to be severe. We anticipate the road to be put in just a few inches lower than it is today, the reason for that being that you have a six inch curb and therefore the curb could essentially match the existing ground. No particular changes in grades., pretty well matching what's there, with no tree problems. One thing about this particular project that's somewhat different than the norm is that you'll notice the entire south- ern half of the project is what we call sideyard frontage. What that means is that the distances - such as Lot 1 you see on Sheldon - there the shortest, for a corner lot, are called frontage. In this case, there's a 98 foot dimension for Lot 1, which is 2943 Sheldon, so Sheldon would be determined as the frontage. There's about 140 feet of distance along Millwood, which is proposed for the improvement, and since that's the longer dimension that's the one deemed to be the side lot. It's been the practice in the City of Roseville for many years for a side lot not to be fully assessed. The current practice is only to assess 1/10 of the distance so that that property at 2943 Sheldon, in this case, would have approximately 14 assess- able feet. You see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 lots, all of which are side lots and only 10% of that is assessable. That means that the total number of assessable feet on this three block project is considerably less than you usually get because normally there's a lot more frontage on both sides of the street., As 2