08-01-2015, 05:14 AM
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Originally posted by kalakoa
Gentrification is the buying and renovating of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by wealthier individuals
There is no reason this definition cannot be extended to include the roads -- in fact, the value proposition of building renovations is limited by the quality of the roads, so at some point the roads have to be upgraded to match the apparent value of the buildings.
If they are complaining about roads now, then they didn't do their homework then.
Assumes that the road management problem is obvious to the observer, and that the people involved aren't replaced by different people with a different agenda. How many HPP residents thought their roads were a solved problem when they moved in? ("Look, a board, and dues, and they totally promise that my street will be paved really soon.")
Up until the current board most of us in HPP had decently maintained roads, I don't think all that many people really expected all of the roads being paved to ever be more than a false promise, but we did assume the roads would continue to be maintained at the same level they were when we bought. That is not the case. Only one very short stretch of our road has been touched in over a year, that part had a set of lake sized potholes that could eat most cars and people were driving into people's yards to avoid the lakes, but the rest of the road has not had any maintenance beyond being mown exactly twice since the mass termination of employees.
If I wanted to live on a road with axle busting ruts I would have bought a much cheaper house in Hawaiian Acres and spent the money on a truck. Part of the value of HPP at the time we bought was what seemed to be a commitment to having decent roads, the current board disfunction has severely disrupted the maintenance of HPP roads.