ALERT: See the Boulder County Transportation Department Web page for the summary of the presentation of the 'vote' results about subdivision road repair. Also, visit the Facebook page for comments.
Rural Subdivision Assessment for
Road Repair?
MAKE YOUR VOTE A KNOWLEDGEABLE ONE!
VOTE BY AUGUST 17TH!
Unincorporated Boulder County residents! You have been granted by the County Commissioners the opportunity to tell them what you think. They want to know how you want to pay for repairing and maintaining your subdivision road. Your ballot asks you to vote YES or NO on the question of whether you want to form an improvement district and pay with a special fee/tax for repair and maintenance of your rural subdivision roads.
Now, you may have, like some of us, thought that the county was responsible for keeping up public roads and bridges. Imagine our surprise when we learned that the county has found other uses for these funds. Other transportation improvements may be laudable. But, is it fair to place an extra, regressively structured financial burden on only 10,600 properties?
The Land Use Coalition has spent the last twelve years advocating for unincorporated county residents against unreasonably restrictive building or agricultural regulations Our successes have been rewarding. The county’s latest attempt to raise revenue by punishing subdivision residents has stymied our Board. Nevertheless, we have put together a voting guide to make it easier for landowners to cast their ballots.
A “Yes” vote means you believe an extra $130/year for 15 years is fair and the county can be trusted to maintain your subdivision roads in a timely fashion.
A “No” vote means you smell a rat. On principle, the county owes a better explanation as to why it won’t live up to its meager obligations.
The county has abandoned its contract with the citizens to maintain roads that the county owns. In 1995, in a unilateral move the County stopped its road repairing obligation, without notice to the residents impacted. This is just wrong and a breach of good faith.
Property owners have been paying taxes for many years with the reasonable expectation that they were to be used for road upkeep
The county has not accounted satisfactorily for how it spends its road maintenance money.
You have until August 17th to get your ballot in!
More about the Pros and Cons of this so-called Vote
NOTE: This so-called ballot is not an official ballot. The Commissioners are not obliged to honor the vote.
Build Smart Staff Recommendations
Build Smart Group Summaries
Boulder County Land Use Department
Posted
here
A summary of the summaries is
here
