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With property lines being about 100 feet apart, that comes to 100 houses. It's just $15,000 per house. The road should last 50 years without heavy truck traffic
by burfog 7y ago
With property lines being about 100 feet apart, that comes to 100 houses. It's just $15,000 per house. The road should last 50 years without heavy truck traffic, making it $3000 per year per house.
- ip26 7y ago$3000 per year per house In other words completely out of reach of the kind of town we're talking about?
- redis_mlc 7y agoIn other words, a complete change of the town council in the next election. :)
- njarboe 7y ago$300 per year per house, I believe.
- Dylan16807 7y agoLook at the math again, it's $300 and they made a typo. That's affordable.
- projektfu 7y agoYou’re not discounting properly. It’s more like $500-600 per year because of the time value of money and inflation. Replacement costs are $300 this year, but initial construction is $500 this year because it’s on a bond. Maintenance isn’t included. The surface isn’t really going to last 50 years without looking like Fallout 2. So tack on another hundred. All of this becomes expensive for single family homes to support. The revenue per area is just so low.
- asdff 7y agoIf there are winters, a road with zero traffic won't last 10 years. The weather does more damage than traffic for roads in the suburbs of the midwest and northeast.
- quicklyfrozen 7y agoA properly built road should last much longer than that. My street in a small town in MA hasn't been paved in over 10 years and is still fine. (The town does periodically seal cracks but that's a pretty cheap maintenance item.)