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• -10- Joseph J. Brinkman, 2529 St. Anthony Boulevard: - was also concerned about the number of trucks using the street now that it' s opened; - wanted to know why the City didn't post the streets against truck traffic. These comments prompted the following responses from the City Manager and Councilmembers: Childs - indicated the Assessment Policy had been adopted that spring before the hearings were held on the project; - said under the Policy, all abutting property owners, whether or not they live on MSA streets, have to pay the costs of a 5 ton residential street; - gave the theory on which the Policy is based as being that homeownes derive direct benefit from the first eight feet of roadway and the middle section, which is used by .the general public, should be paid for from general taxation; • - pointed out that if Silver Lake Road, another MSA road, ever had to be redone, the abutting property owners would also have to pay $10. 50 per front foot based on the current cost of constructing aL5 ton residential street; added that, if construction costs are higher, the rates paid by those property owners would also rise; - pointed out that the City' s policy of only assessing 10% of an MSA street to the abutting property owners was much more generous than other suburbs where the same owners might have to pay up to half of the costs of reconstructing an MSA street; - assured Ms. Bochnak that the contractor would have to replace any trees he had injured and others would be replaced from the City' s stock of trees, not charged to the property owners; - told the Councilmembers that the contractor had to cover the costs of replacing the flagstone in front of the Bochnak property. Sundland told Mr. Kausel "all streets are considered to be easements and have to be maintained by the City, which is you and me. " •