Peter Dente: Boulder County should uphold commitments on subdivision roads – Boulder Daily Camera.
Both the prior and current commissioners have been unreceptive and unresponsive to subdivision residents’ requests, and votes, that the commissioners meet their moral, ethical and perhaps legal responsibility to fully maintain roads they received for free, have owned for decades, and have implemented and collected taxes to pay for full maintenance on for decades. Funds the commissioners have, on their own initiative, diverted to other, nice-to-have, resume padding, non-essential projects and activities.
This has been a prima facie bait and switch with your tax dollars.
So far, 218 of your neighbors have signed our petition requesting that the Boulder County commissioners meet their commitments and do what they promised when they required subdivisions to transfer ownership of their roads to the county for free. Here is the link to that online petition to add your voice. I will print this out and present it at the commissioners’ meeting today at 4 p.m. (ipetitions.com/petition/boulder_colorado_county_road_maintenance). Make your voice heard in writing.
I strongly support this petition. The county, despite their protests, has changed the meaning of maintenance over time. With county encouragement, we paved our roads in 1992 with the county supplying 50% of the funds and they would then “take over maintenance” of the road. This was not a decision that our neighborhood took lightly and if there was any issue with the definition of maintenance, the county had a duty to reveal. They absolutely did NOT.
My crystal ball says: PID voted down, LID enacted, lawsuit ensues. It gets hazy after that.
8/15 updated spelling for clarity in final paragraph.
