Same Time Next Year
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It’s been nearly a year since I wrote about the problems that come from
having 11 bosses who are not on the same page about anything, as well as
suggestion...
5 months ago
June 07, 2011
One Vote
If one person on a private street wants to convert it, they file a petition and everyone else can vote against it but the City Council will approve. All you need is one vote now on a private street to convert it to public.
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Can a renter file a petition?
Does the person who files the petition have to live there? I drive down some bumpy streets, and I'd like to make the people who live there pave the street so I don't spill my coffee on myself.
Can I file a petition?
i don't see why anyone in the city, whether the property owner or renter, could file a petition to convert a private street to a public street?
A rent could file it or someone who wants to cut over said road like Steve suggest. Public works would hold hearings, get votes and approve no matter what the vote is.
Sorry type too fast.
I don't see any reason why a rented or anyone for that matter can not file a petition to convert a private road.
I am tempted to file a partition for every private street in the city if only to show the absurdity of the process.
Unfortunately, they would probably decide that this is a great stimulus package to get construction workers back to work at the expense of the homeowners.
I was once told by a lawyer that the legalities involved with private streets in Worcester is a PIA, esp. for the city lawyers.
My recollection is that the abutters own to the middle of the street, however they have to allow public passage on the street. If this is true what liabilty resutls to teh abutting owners? Also the abuttters are responsible for maintaining the street which I guess includes ridding the dirt street of potholes every spring by grading it???
Has anyone ever been told or heard the abutters own to the middle of the street? I always kinda wondered about that?
If there are intersecting steeets on teh private road when it is converted and paved, who pays for the conversion costs for the 50 foot length of each intersection? The abutter to each intersection is the City on both sides of the intersection.
I would guess that renters have no standing (ownership) to request privte st. conversion??? That said, what the hell standing do abuttering owners have if their votes are meaningless?
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