Comments on: A few questions about capital funding projects

By: Popijw

Popijw — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:48:19 +0000

Haven’t you noticed ALL STREETS and roads here are Crap! City keeps re-doing Sheridan Rd, and next year same thing happens! Could be they do not have a clue as what is wrong and how to fix it??

By: SD

SD — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:33:59 +0000

As I understand it most of the Peoria budget is based on incoming futures of taxes. Well part of those taxes come from huge mortgages such as malls/shopping centers. In the latest economic news it says that stores are going to be closing after the first of January. A lot of the stores in the malls/shopping centers are going to close and therefore the mortgagee of those properties are not going to be able to make their payments that include their taxes. So how is the city going to have this great balanced budget. Are they counting their chickens before they are hatched? Another side note to this if you get gift cards for Christmas use them before the 31st of December or they might not be any good after that. We cannot plan on next year as we have done in the past. We are going to be in a huge hurt for a long long time.
Getting back to the streets. Weaver Ridge is a small community of travelers. If their streets are falling apart already without heavy commercial traffic on them obviously they were not constructed properly in the first place. How long would they have lasted with say University St., traffic running on them?

By: C. J. Summers

C. J. Summers — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:15:37 +0000

Billy — No one’s denying that road repair is a legitimate government function. But roads that we just paid to build 12 years ago that now have to be reconstructed? You don’t think that’s a waste of the taxpayer’s money? Don’t you think the company that built the roads should bear some accountability?

By: Billy Dennis

Billy Dennis — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:33:08 +0000

Oh for crying out loud people. Fixing the roads in WeaverRidge is at least a case of providing essential services … all be it in a neighborhood not much in need compared to other neighborhoods. But fixing roads is a legitimate function of government.

How unlike the Sheridan Triangle/West Main Street projects. Talk about a waste of cash simply to try to sprinkle magic New Urbanist Faerie Dust on us.

The city would be better off taking BOTH projects off the books and bonding our for NEW and REPAIRED sidewalks and roads, not this landscaping crap.

By: mahkno

mahkno — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:48:16 +0000

I was looking at the Weaver Ridge covenants earlier this eve. The covenants prohibit vinyl siding !!!

By: C. J. Summers

C. J. Summers — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:26:58 +0000

George — Go for it. Political correctness is not a requirement of the Terms of Use. Just don’t libel anyone or say anything shockingly profane.

By: George(the original NOT Jacob)

George(the original NOT Jacob) — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:06:35 +0000

CJ- Can we have a PC insensitive exchange on your blog? If so, I have lots to say about Weaver Ridge- If not I will keep it to myself.

By: mazr

mazr — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:48:04 +0000

Areas of town with no sidewalks, streetlights or police presence. Check.

Budget money to go towards fixing upscale sudivision roads? Uhh what?

By: without malice

without malice — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:10:01 +0000

Weaver Ridge is NOT a gated community. Cullinan reaped untold profit from that development let alone getting a $3.5 million reimbursement at taxpayer expense. Now just 12 years later and the roads are crap then there has to be legal grounds for action as somebody obviously did shoddy work in the base preparation. Please don’t say “but those property owners are actually paying that $3.5 mill in taxes” because now they want ALL Peoria taxpayers to pay to have it redone already! BTW we have friends on Devereux and that “stream” is something that should have been addressed before building permits were ever even granted! It is hidden from the street, but the depth of the ravine and the serious erosion is unbelievable! It’s amazing that children have not drown. When the rains come that is one scary place of twists and turns undermining even the expensive walls. Property owners have spent an incredible amount of money trying to protect their property. Some have spent $25k to $40K for their walls, so it’s not a simple creek running through Peoria that a few railroad ties can contain.

By: C. J. Summers

C. J. Summers — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:22:24 +0000

Mahkno — The developer (Cullinan) built the streets, but the city reimbursed the developer $3.5 million of the $4.5 million they spent to put in roads, gutters, curbs, storm sewers and sanitary sewers. And they did it in 1996, a mere 12 years ago. And it’s part of a 25-year special service district.