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-8- When Louis Altmann, 2501 St. Anthony Boulevard, rose to say he lived on the corner • of Roosevelt and St. Anthony Boulevard and didn't think it would be fair to assess him for the full 140 feet he owns on the Boulevard, Mayor Sundland told him he wasn't going to be assessed for the project at all because under the City Assess- ment Policy, the Roosevelt side of his property was considered the "long side" for assessment purposes and he would only have to pay for upgrading that street when it was done. Virgil Gottwalt, 2717 St. Anthony Boulevard, said the sidewalks on his end of the Boulevard were all in relatively good shape but the same was not true for the stretch between Wilson Street and Stinson Boulevard which heaved every winter and posed a threat for anyone walking down the street after dark. However, Mr. Gottwalt said he was concerned that, if the top of the new curbs are installed even one inch higher in his locality, the lowest point in the street, he would have a problem with runoff on his sidewalks. Mr. Campbell responded by indicating the proposal was to leave the grade pretty much the same as it is now, with curbs lowered only to the extent they would retain the existing drainage. He assured Bruni.s Smoka, 2513 St. Anthony Boulevard, who said he had just put in new sidewalks, that only the necessary minor changes in grade elevations would be made so he should experience no elevation problems with respect to his (Mr. Smoka's) newly replaced sidewalk section. Mr. Hamer told Ted Lochren, 2617 St, Anthony Boulevard, the City was proposing to include the upgrading of the storm sewer lines on the Boulevard now because the costs could be paid for from MSA funds along with the rest of the street improve- ments, but he cautioned the homeowners who experience occasional flooding on the . • Boulevard, that their problems would not be corrected until the connecting lines on Wilson are also upgraded, Don Everetz, 2901 St. Anthony Boulevard, indicated he owned 105 feet of property along the Boulevard and objected to the project "in its entirety" because he "was not interested in having the Boulevard, which is already a 'raceway' , becoming a 'speedway". Mr. Evertz said he favored doing the Boulevard portion running past the golf course, which he perceived to be "in really bad shape", instead, at this time. Mayor Sundland said the homeowner was another of the lucky ones whose corner lot would not be assessed under -the City's Assessment Policy but would be assessed when Coolidge Street is done, Mr. Childs explained that no matter what direction the house faces, the Qrdinance considers only the longest side of a corner lot for assessment purposes when streets are rebuilt. However, the Manager said, some of the corner lots on St. Anthony Boulevard have longer front than side yards and those owners would be assessed for this project. B-ob Knox, who owns a home on the corner at 2809 St. Anthony Boulevard, commented that he did not anticipate either Coolidge or Roosevelt Streets would be done any time in the near future, which the Mayor disputed, saying since studies had shown the infrastructure of the streets, and under the streets in the southern quadrant of the City had outlived their normal lives and were only being held together by sealcoati.ng, etc. Because the streets in that part of the City, which was the first built, are deteriorating so rapidly, the Mayor indicated he perceived the general consensus of the Council was that a rebuilding program, in a staged process, of course, would have to be undertaken very soon. is Because St. Anthony Boulevard alone among all of those streets qualified for MSA funding and the City could use tts allocation for a street rebuilding project there,