10-30-2012, 04:18 AM
(apologies for triple-posting, but...)
The "roads in limbo" program provides funding (via your tax dollars) so that County can pave "pre-existing" roads. One such project was recently completed in Mountain View; the new fully-paved mile is of great benefit to the few houses served thereby.
Literally: there's one house on the new road, and a couple of others are now "closer to the pavement". For comparison, each mile of numbered road in Hawaiian Acres has about 68 lots; at 25% occupancy, that same paving project would benefit 17 residents. (These numbers will be higher for many other "private/spaghetti" subdivisions; HA lots are wider than most.)
Seems to me that "most roads will never be paved" regardless of who is "paying for it".
The "roads in limbo" program provides funding (via your tax dollars) so that County can pave "pre-existing" roads. One such project was recently completed in Mountain View; the new fully-paved mile is of great benefit to the few houses served thereby.
Literally: there's one house on the new road, and a couple of others are now "closer to the pavement". For comparison, each mile of numbered road in Hawaiian Acres has about 68 lots; at 25% occupancy, that same paving project would benefit 17 residents. (These numbers will be higher for many other "private/spaghetti" subdivisions; HA lots are wider than most.)
Seems to me that "most roads will never be paved" regardless of who is "paying for it".