Friday, December 28, 2012
Macomb Township will spread the $848 cost to residents over three years, per the terms of a newly-established special assessment district for the subdivision.
Residents in Woodberry Estates will have to reach into their wallets for a little extra over the next three years to cover the cost of repairs to their subdivision's streets and crosswalks. The Macomb Township Board of Trustees approved the details of a newly-established special assessment district (SAD) for the complex on Dec. 26, which will levy an $848 charge per parcel over the next three years at .5 percent interest per year. The cost per parcel was previously projected to be $973. A special assessment district is a term used to designate a unique charge the township can assess against real estate parcels for certain public projects. In the case of Woodberry Estates, the SAD will be used to repair and repave streets and crosswalks. …
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Residents of Woodberry Estates are invited to attend a second public hearing Dec. 26 on the special assessment district proposed for road repairs and improvements.
Residents in Woodberry Estates may soon have an extra charge on their tax bills. The Macomb Township Board of Trustees is set to decide the details of a newly-established special assessment district (SAD) for the complex on Dec. 26. A special assessment district is a term used to designate a unique charge the township can assess against real estate parcels for certain public projects. In the case of Woodberry Estates, the SAD will be used to repair and repave streets and crosswalks. A public hearing took place Nov. 28 during the regular Board of Trustees meeting and, at that time, no residents from Woodberry Estates expressed their concern about the project. According to the Woodberry Estates Condominium Association website, 57 percent …
Monday, January 2, 2012
The stretch of 21 Mile Road between Heydenreich and Card is first, but from there, the township looks to make the entire township pedestrian-friendly in the long term.
For Macomb Township residents, the issue is where the sidewalk ends. Not to be confused with the Shel Silverstein poem, Macomb’s sidewalk woes stem primarily from the area’s abundance of incomplete walkways. A still developing community, Macomb Township stretches across 36 square miles, but few of those miles are paved for the use of pedestrian traffic. In November 2011, the township’s board of trustees voted to fund what will become one of the first full-mile sections of sidewalk in the township. The project, once completed, will connect the partial sidewalks currently in place along 21 Mile Road between Heydenreich and Card roads. As this particular stretch of road is home to four schools, several suburbs and a popular shopping plaza, …
Monday, November 28, 2011
With four schools at the intersection of 21 Mile and Heydenreich roads, the township board has approved a plan to make the area more walkable for local students.
If there is one frustration shared by Macomb Township residents, it is the area's incomplete, or lack of sidewalks. Township trustees moved to rectify this problem in at least one area of the township during their meeting last week. Prompted by concerns of residents, the Macomb County Department of Roads and Chippewa Valley Schools, township trustees authorized the "sidewalk project" to connect the one-mile stretch of sidewalk along 21 Mile Road between Heydenreich and Card. "The whole issue comes down to sidewalk connections and their lack of being fully connected along 21 Mile Road on the north and south sides from Heydenreich Road west to Red River, which is just before the shopping plaza," said Clerk Michael Koehs, who introduced the …
Frustrated Old Man
12:51 pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012
Problems are no doubt due to local government accepting/approving sub-standard concrete when the job was originally done! What are property taxes being used for? more ›