To Blacktop or Not Blacktop...that is the Question?
A few of years ago I was visiting with a couple of In-Laws from Iowa, when the topic of keeping dust down on their gravel roads was brought up. Iowa has a lot of gravel County roads. I was asked how we controlled the dust in our area. I responded "blacktop".
Not everyone wants a paved street.
The Fayetteville City Council learned last week that a paved street is a laudable, if not misguided, goal. The council made the elimination of dirt streets a priority last year. It adopted a three-year plan to pave every dirt street. The council was set last week to approve paving 12 streets that were randomly picked to be done in the first year.
But residents and business owners on two of those streets — Woodsdale Street and Plummers Lane — objected.
Objected to having a paved street? What's the deal? Why would someone not want a paved street to live on?
Property owners are charged $25 for every foot that their yards abut the street when it’s paved with a concrete curb and gutter.
Devins Harrison, who along with his wife, Barbara Herring, owns D&J Motor Co. on Woodsdale, said the 581-foot-long road has only three houses.
“This is just a bad deal, as far as I’m concerned, if we have to be assessed,” he said.
City officials say that assessment averages 25 percent of the cost to pave a street with a concrete curb and gutter. City taxpayers pay the rest.
OK, they don't object to a paved street, as long as they don't have to pay for it. Anything else?
Harrison said the street lacks public sewer and has storm drainage problems. So why pave it? he asked.
Well, a paved street with curb and gutter just may solve that drainage problem? Huh, what do you think?
Councilman Robert Massey said it would make little sense to pave the street before doing sewer work if that utility service were needed.
"If" sewer work were needed? Not when... but if?
Don't worry folks, I'm sure the private sewage systems on these gravel streets, are all checked regularly, to make sure they are operating properly.
Flushhh.......
Al Arnold
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