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Council Minutes of 5!4/2005 residents feels the asphalt will be tracked onto their driveways and into their homes. Also, they feel the asphalt streets will devalue their property. It is not how they want their neighborhood to look. Can anything be done? Part of her tax dollars are going toward putting in cement in Sandy Ridge and North Park Estates. Is this the way the city is going to go? It is not pleasing to look at and to live with. Councilman Nashar explained there is a cost factor. The city does not have the funds to do the streets in cement. He does not believe asphalt will have any effect on the property values. Bretton Ridge development has not shown one bit of depreciation, and that was put down in 1995. If there are chuckholes, they can easily be repaired. Mayor O'Grady said he understands the concerns as homes are the greatest investment most people ever make. However, there has been no degradation in the value of the homes in Bretton Ridge. The question is, do the residents of Canterbury Woods want the streets repaired now or do they want streets that sometime in the future might be repaired? We are doing a city- wide assessment. All streets aze being ranked in a number of criteria so that we can establish which streets are most urgently in need of repair. If we take Canterbury Woods out of our current plan right now and put it into that program, it may be some number of years before Canterbury Woods can be repaired. If your street is in disrepair, that will affect the value of your homes. Doing the street in cement costs five times what it's going to cost for the asphalt overlay. That means we can do one street in cement or we can do five streets. The economic condition of this city is well known. We do have too much debt, and we have to deal with that. The unfortunate reality is we don't have the money to do cement streets. He spoke to some residents on the phone who said give them the opportunity of doing an assessment. That is an option-other municipalities do that, but we have not done that in this city and he doesn't think we want to. If we were doing the streets in asphalt overlay, the cost is just over $35 per lateral foot. The cost of cement streets is signif cantly higher, up to $170 per lateral foot. If we would do an assessment, which we are not, the assessment for an asphalt overlay would be $1,242 for each resident. The cement assessment would be $5,933. It's significant. If there is no real degradation in the value homes and the get streets done now, his strong suggestion would be that the residents fully support this. The concerns about streets in the past where they had cement and did an asphalt overlay that there was some breaking, because one piece of cement would move and there would be cracks and potholes is a fact. That happens because the cement below isn't properly prepared. The Service Director has brought forward to City Council a method which he believes can be successfully applied to the streets in Canterbury Woods. First, a 2-inch grind out right along the curb is done. That allows for an even layering of asphalt over the existing road surface. Following this is chip and seal procedure which is put down after the road surface is repaired to fill in any additional cracks and to put a layering over the existing joints. That prevents moisture from getting into those joints. After the chip and seal, there is a tack coating followed by a leveling coating, another tack coating and then they put on a inch and a half of asphalt. When you go that deep, you've got a surface that will protect the cement underneath and you won't have the expansion because of water, you won't have the degradation of the road surface. It is anticipated that this road surface would last 15 years. Our current experience with cement streets, is that they last about 20. When you consider the cast, it's the way we have to go as a community. Councilman McKay said that there was one area of the city that was assessed for street repair some years ago, Sunset and Sunset Oval. By 9