The projects this will fund will be at the discretion of the Genoa Township Board of Trustees, however there is a master plan regarding road projects and a map covering the projects. The master plan is on the Genoa Township website.
The expected projects and their estimated costs are as follows.
- Crooked Lake - 2.8 Million (2014) - New Paving from Chilson to Door
- Latson - 1.85 Million (2014) - Widening - One project I agree with
- Beck Road - 2.95 Million (2015) - New widening and paving from the new Latson Interchange to Chilson
- Conrad/Challis - 1.925 Million (2014) - New widening and paving from Clifford to Dorr
- Challis Bauer Intersection - 2.1 Million (2015) - Roundabout
- Herbst Rd - 3.9 Million (2016) - New widening and paving from Grand River to Sylvan Glen
- Cunningham Lake and Bauer 3.65 Million (2016) - New widening and paving from Stonegate Subdivision to Bauer, and on Bauer from Cunningham Lake to first Pine Creek Entrance.
- Bauer Rd - 1.25 Million (2016) - From Cunningham Lake to Township Line (around Murray Lake)
- Hughes Road - 2.55 Million (2016) - Repaving.
Total estimated costs - $22.975 Million
Dan, as you remember, Genoa Twp. also has several reality people on the board and a lot of the property along these roads are undeveloped. I'm sure that having paved roads would increase the potential to sell these properties at a better profit gain. As you travel part of these roads you can see that some have been partly paved to the existing developments. I'm not sure but these may have been paved due to a requirement set by the township (ie, Herbst and Silvan Glen). Couldn't these same requirements be set by the township for future development on these properties? We also don't want to forget the proposed sewer project that is sitting on the back burner for Oak Pointe area. Which somebody is going to have to pay for.
ReplyDeleteI just checked the Laurex site (Todd and Gary). Big Duplex plans sold on Beck Road (near the Latson Interchange). Beck can be argued either way with the Latson Interchange, so I haven't focused on it much.
ReplyDeleteI have some suspicions due to two residencies of individuals which I'd rather not name on this site as I don't want to make it personal. Two of the pavings would have a short cut that's paved instead of dirt. Herbst (from Hubert) to the already paved portion near Dorr, and Conrad from Clifford to the small part of Challis past Dorr.
There was recently a Remax sign at the corner of Bauer/Cunningham Lake (NW Corner, between Walnut Hills and Pine Creek) for 30 or 40 acres.
There was talk at the open house by the manager about Mystic/Mountain complaining about Stonegate traffic at a previous meeting. I checked the minutes and the complaint of traffic was when Cunningham Lake was closed off (probably due to the storm.)
The root cause of the road condition is unfair allocation of Federal and State road dollars.
ReplyDeleteLivingston county gets allocated the lowest amount of state dollars of all Michigan counties including the upper peninsula. The real fix is successful negotiation by our representative in the state legislature.
Relative to Federal gas taxes the State of Michigan only gets back 91% of the Federal gas tax receipts thus we are a donor state with arguably the worst roads in the country
State gas taxes have not been increased in 19 years. A 1 cent increase would generate about $50 million. An increase in the gas tax would be more equitable than a mileage because it would tax those who use the roads
The proposed millage is not a onetime only mileage but will last for 15 years and in truth will be ongoing
The millage will be assessed on property values versus an equal amount per household. Truth is very little monies if any will go into neighborhoods. This request for monies should be based on who uses the roads and all residents should be allocated the same amount per residence not assessed values (aside from a gas tax increase)
If approved by Genoa Township, it is very likely that the Livingston County road commission will reduce its allocation to Genoa township in favor of other townships
The major projects are paving Crooked Lake , Cunningham and a portion of Bauer Roads and a traffic circle on Bauer at Challis with Challis being rerouted. Bauer will only be paved to the Hamburg township line.
VOTE NO!!!
Rick Hagenbach