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• -9- City's Assessment Policy should require Boulevard 'property owners ,to pay for the -improvements -because St. Anthony-'had gotten the street -under an .":easement grant from the Minneapolis Park Board; contended the purpose of the easement grant had been- to- provide access and egress to 35W; said the grant was "from tree to tree" and stipulated that ; the "City of St. Anthony had to maintain all the distance between" ; said he thought a "different -situation" existed-- for ' St. Anthony Boulevard residents who have no driveways and . . :now suffer- an- increase in .traffic which "could cause some of the homes to have -lost some of their value" ; indicated he believed it was- because the home owners had fought to ,keep the road 32 feet wide that "we now have -a beautiful, well done Boulevard" ; recalled that the first residents on that street had planted • all the trees in the boulevards. Muriel Bochnak, 2600 St. Anthony Boulevard: registered, a complaint about the "corner houses not being assessed. " wanted to .know when the assessment policy which'stipu-la•ted this treatment had been passed; . wanted to know when the side streets, particularly the storm sewers, would be reconstructed, saying she under- stood this would eliminate some of the flooding problems, on the Boulevard; questioned whether taxpayers would have to pay for : "trees .which will probably -not- make it through the winter after the contractor dug too .-close- to' them. " ; reported her flagstone sidewalk had- to be replaced. .after mistakenly. -being�.'torn up 'by the contractor;. - •..told .about 'a .workman who urinated right in front. of 'her front window; was. .concerned that her: :di•nner... guests the -:next week :-might. :. be. tagged -.for parking 'in -front of her' home