Allentown property owners say they can?t afford city-ordered sidewalks

WFMZ ^

[the_daug]

Yes libs are mostly fungible.

[NFHale]

Good word... “able to be used in place of another.”

[Marie]

They did this to us ten years ago in Arizona.

The city decided that we all needed new culverts in our driveways to cut back on flooding. They charged us each $1000-3000 for the cost of the pipe.

Hubby and I owned a strip of land that was used by two other people. (The only way to get in and out of their property), but WE had to pay up. (One of them was kind enough to give us $500 - no lawsuit or BS, just kindness, common sense, and a handshake. They were just good neighbors who wanted to keep it that way.)

So they took out our 24” pipe and put in 12” pipes. When the monsoons hit, the street and driveway flooded to hell. And I mean, we couldn’t get off our property for days kind of hell.

One of the neighbors organized us into a class-action lawsuit against the city and they did bend and replace the culverts with the proper pipe at cost to the taxpayers. (which was US, by the way)

To recap: The city forced us to come up with thousands of dollars to replace our functioning pipe with non-functioning pipe, then we had to pay to sue to get them to replace their work with functioning pipe that we ended up paying for with an increase in property taxes.

Government makes so much sense. /s