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driveway would likely be in the range of $1,800 to $3,000. If the City were to consider picking up the portion of 12 foot drive that exists in the City right-of-way, that is from 21 to 15 feet long depending on whether it is a 24 foot wide road in a 66 foot right-of-way, or a 33 foot wide road in a 60 foot right-of-way. The cost would be in the range of $450 to $630 to pave from the edge of the bituminous road up to the right-of-way line. Mr. Olson stated there was discussion relative to what kind of financial commitment the City would be entering into if they were to choose to do this. It was noted that there has not been an inventory completed of all the driveways in the City. They went through the rationale on the case of how they would proceed. There was discussion about problems Coon Rapids has with regard to this type of incentive based program. From what they understand, the City of Coon Rapids offered that one contractor would do all the driveways for the individual property owners, but they were all 100% assessed back to the property owner. The Committee talked at great length about whether they would implement a policy that would require the right-of-way to be paved and give a grace period as to when it would come into effect. There was discussion of an assessment process if the City hired a contractor to go on to private property. Staff was directed to continue to work on a survey of dirt driveways and draft a policy regarding driveway paving for further consideration by the Committee and Council. This will be brought back to a future Public Works Committee meeting, but staff would like input from the Council regarding some of these issues. Councilmember Elvig indicated that the purpose of this program would be the public good. Typically there is a lot of breakage on the road where the dirt and tarred road meet, and a lot of gravel out onto the tarred road. The concern is people travel on the road with that gravel with bikes and motorcycles, with the gravel getting into the storm sewers, and the degradation of the edge of the roadway. Mayor Gamec noted it could become a paperwork fiasco if there were to be one assessment for paving work that was done to match up driveways to the street and another assessment for driveways. It is definitely a nice feature to have the driveway paved close to the street, but then it starts breaking up back up on the driveways and it is pushing the problem back another 5 to 15 feet. Councilmember Dehen stated his understanding is that the .discussion was to have the paving potentially pushed back even into the private part of the property. Some of the discussion was how far to push that back. Hopefully pushing it back into the private property it encourages the homeowner at that same time to pull it all the way to their household. Another discussion they had is that this is just problematic on properties that were built some time ago, so they do not have the issue with the new driveways because code requires the blacktopping to be there. This policy is something that is primarily for old driveways. Mayor Gamec stated it would probably be a problem to go up on private property with paving past the easement. Councilmember Dehen pointed out that the Coon Rapids program requires paving 50 to 100 feet into the private property. Public Works Director Olson explained with the Coon RapIds program the homeowner is responsible for contracting with the contractor. The only thing the City did was offer an City Council / July 10,2007 Page 18 of 24