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Roads: Are developers the new road planners?
Submitted by Cynthia Sewell,... on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 2:44pm.
Maybe this is a new way for ACHD, Ada County, Boise, Meridian, etc. to save money ... let the developers come up with the long-range road and development plans. It would save taxpayers a bundle.
Developer drafting road plan for eastern Warm Springs Avenue: Brighton Corp. is drafting a 20-year plan for improvements to Warm Springs Avenue between Eckert and Highland Valley roads.
The public can review the proposed plan at an open house 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Riverstone International School, 5493 Warm Springs Avenue.
Brighton will present its proposed corridor plan to Ada County Highway District and Boise city this spring.
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Let the private dudes figure it...
They are better equipped to do it worse, after all.
Free Lunches
Any costs developers incur are passed to the buyers (select taxpayers) in exchange for the rights to control the development.
Green is the new black and anti is the new pro...why not?
Infrastructure needs to be in place BEFORE development occurs!
If the city were farsighted and had a plan for infill in the north, northeast and northwest areas of Boise, they would fix the infrastructure first then entertain development proposals.
The city of Boise and Ada County are currently reviewing proposals for several developments along the Boise Front. They acknowledge that the current infrastructure is insufficient but claim that the impact fees charged to the developer will cover costs of traffic impact. One such proposal will charge the developer $500,000 in impact fees but the development is predicted to add up to 1500 additional daily trips to Collister (north of Hill Rd) and/or Plano and those cars will then funnel to Hill or State.
Have you ever driven up Plano or Collister? Have you ever tried to ride a bike on Hill or State? Do you think the $500,000 in impact fees will cover the true impact?
There are many previously approved building parcels near Hill Rd between Hwy 55 and Harrison Blvd. Those parcels may not be populated now but they soon will be. And guess what? The projected traffic from those sites is NOT considered during the approval process for new development proposals.
Click. disconnect. What was the Foothills Initiative about?
About one minute too long, Cisco!
ACHD can save money
by NOT chip sealing all the residential streets! What a waste of taxpayer's money!
THEY CAN?
Okay, it sounds like an idea, but run this past your CPU. Even the RESIDENTIAL streets see a lot of traffic in Boise. Some amount of regular sealing is NECESSARY to keep the roads from deteriorating to the point where the break so badly as to require a complete REBUILD.
Roads are not benign stretches of asphalt. You have also replaced the blue turf more this decade than ACHD has worked on any residential stretchs.
Boise - Owned, run, and ruined by developers
Who's in charge?
You tell me!
You live there apparently.