Did you see the post below, where I wrote that Diane McAlpine had gotten bids from contractors to pave the parkway area along Bradford? The dirt between the sidewalk and the curb.
The part we can't see and it's outside our fence.
I don't think anyone has ever suggested it was our responsibility. It's completely different from the parkways on Topaz and Sapphire that we have maintained and that we do look at.
I don't think anyone has ever suggested it was our responsibility. It's completely different from the parkways on Topaz and Sapphire that we have maintained and that we do look at.
Apparently the board on a vote of 3 to 1 are going through with it, and spending $5,000 to pave that area. It was apparently voted on at the last meeting on 11/20/2012. It was called a "trip hazard".
It's outside our fence. We can't see it, and we have never maintained it or taken responsibility for it. Now is not the time to start. Why should we take responsibility after 40+ years? It's a bad precedent.
I understand the city planted the trees out there a year or two ago.
If there's a hazard it's not *our* hazard, especially if we don't know about it or do anything about it. Since the last work on that area was done by the city any liability is theirs. Which is much better than it being ours!
I understand the city planted the trees out there a year or two ago.
If there's a hazard it's not *our* hazard, especially if we don't know about it or do anything about it. Since the last work on that area was done by the city any liability is theirs. Which is much better than it being ours!
I called the city and asked them to take over maintenance of that area. I didn't pursue it with them because, well, I am not on the board and it's not my job.
But heck, I don't want US to take that area over and be responsible for it forever!
What do you think? .
Diane said it was "no different from the parkway along Topaz" which we have always maintained.
ReplyDeleteIt is different! We can see the parkway along Topaz. We have always maintained it. We have landscaped it, mowed it, etc.
We have never done that on that part the board just spent your and my money to pave over. I was for working on getting the city to do the work, and I think they ultimately would do so.
But no reason to worry about it now. It's done. They did it, paved the area along Bradford. With our money.
In a hurry too! They discussed it on the meeting on December 18th, and the following night the contractor was down there working on it, by flashlight. Yep, it was night and they hurried to get that work done.
BTW, it took them only one day to do $5000 worth of work. I don't know if that's normal or not.