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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES JULY 21, 1987 PAGE 4 does not follow the section line. The roadway is centered on the sectionline at Keats Avenue, but as the road goes to the East it ends up 33 feet north of the sectionline by the time it gets to Kimbro Avenue. The proposed plan is to widen the road to uniform width and straighten it out. The road is planned to be based on a 32 foot wide road bed and on that would be constructed 24 feet of bituminous pavement and a 4 foot gravel shoulder on either side. The driveway and cross culverts will be replaced and the driveways will be blacktopped up to the property line. The road will be designed for a 40 mph speed. This is in an unplatted area so there is no platted right-of-way for this road. The public does have a right to use this road simply because they have used this road and the City has maintained it for a number of years, but the use is limited. The City needs to purchase additional right-of-way along the road to make a uniform minimum width of 66 feet. There are many mature oak trees along the southside of the road, which the Council had considered worth preserving if at all possible. State Aid Standards require a clear zone for a distance of 20 feet from the edge of the blacktop. In order to keep the road as close as possible to its inplace position they are allowed to put a curb along this road to protect the public from going off the road and striking the two oak trees along Ed Stevens' property. This curb will be about 200 feet long in the area of either side of Stevens' driveway so the two oak trees can stay in place. One condition of placing this curb is that the State would have to erect "No Parking" signs on this portion of the road because the curb portion would be too narrow to provide a full parking place. The proposed improvements in order to save as many trees as possible is to try and use the southernly established fence lines as the south right-of-way line of this proposed road. This would require a narrow strip of land (approx. 1/2 acre) from Mr. Sullwold, property owner on the north. If this project were ordered in, it is possible that the grading and gravel base portion of the project could be completed yet this year and the surfacing followed as weather permits in the Spring. This is dependent on the City's ability to purchase right-of-way or easements that are necessary. If this takes more time than anticipated, then the entire project will not be started until 1988 and completed in 1988. It has been past City policy to assess only those costs for the project not eligible for payment out of the Municipal State Aid Funds. Municipal State Aid Funds will pay for all of the construction. Some of the costs not reimbursable are any legal costs involved such as acquiring easements, purchasing right-of-way and costs associated with land acquisition. There is a limit to the amount of engineering costs that is eligible for reimbursement which is 180 of the construction costs. The estimated proposed assessments will be $750 and $1000 per lot (lot is defined as the number of lots that are adjacent which could be subdivided under present code).