So, half of your neighborhood got nice paved roads at taxpayer expense, while the other half is stuck on crappy gravel roads.
And the response of those who received the largesse of the government is to get mad at the half who did not.
If your entire neighborhood was still gravel, your maintenance costs would be double, driving up your dues. By getting the state to take over some roads, you ALL saved money.
We go through this a lot with our pool. People who don’t have kids, or who don’t use the pool, who have access to other pools, want to pay less in dues because they don’t need the pool.
Last year a developer approached us about adding his small neighborhood into our association. It would essentially have been free money for us, because our pool is underutilized anyway. But his homes were going to have street lights (we don’t), and so a PORTION of the dues from those new houses would have paid for the operation and maintenance of the street lights. We still would have come out ahead.
But there was an outcry because the new homes would have street lights that “we were all paying for”, while the rest of the homes were also stuck paying for their own house lamps on poles.
I think the development fell apart anyway, but we had people ready to give up free money because they perceived an “unfairness”.
“By getting the state to take over some roads, you ALL saved money.”
No. The county has always maintained the paved roads. It’s simply a sham. It’s the owners choice if he buys on a gravel road, why should I pay for it?
“People who don’t have kids, or who don’t use the pool, who have access to other pools, want to pay less in dues because they don’t need the pool.”
My! What a novel concept. Shame on them!