Thursday, February 18, 2010

Roads and fees

There is great confusion on whether or not city inspected roads are in the district because in
many communities that are private roads, the county doesn't require inspection of the
private roads because they are going to be maintained by the homeowners association.
So I am assuming that is somewhat similar in this case. However, there are a couple
different things that apply here. Those plans and specifications have to be approved by
the city municipalities and in accordance of that, before you can ever lay the last layer of
asphalt a compaction test has to be done because of trucks and everything else going
over the sewer and water lines that are going to then be owned by the municipality. So
a compaction test is done, approved and accepted by the city. Whether the asphalt
thickness is accepted by the city, I cannot tell you, but I can tell you that the
geotechnical study done in Lake Ashton CDD shows that all of the specifications were
met. They do a boring to test the roads. I can also tell you that the roads were built
correctly here. In Florida you have many different factors that can affect the roads. We
believe subsurface groundwater is a contributing factor that affected them. There were
a few bad hurricanes in 2004 or 2005 that accelerated the groundwater table. From a
structural standpoint the roads were built properly. From a cosmetic aspect it may be a
problem though and we are still looking into that.

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