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Dear Mayor and City council members, <br />It has been brought to my attention that you are planning a workshop <br />to discuss establishing policies in the request to change Private <br />roadways into Public roadways. <br />Anytime there is a development proposal brought in front of the City <br />Planning Commission and City Council there is a possibility of a request <br />of this nature such as mine on Bracketts Point Road. As larger parcels <br />of properties in the City are subdivided there becomes an increased <br />demand on the city to provide a public roadway that serves all property <br />owners equally such as the case on Bracketts Point Road. <br />understand the City concern of setting a president in making these <br />difficult decisions and changing private to public roadways and <br />incurring additional repair, maintenance and snow removal services <br />expense over the life of the roadway. Im a multiple site property tax <br />payer in the City and I too want responsible spending for our City. <br />might suggest that the additional repair and maintenance expense will <br />generally be covered by the nature of the development project in hand. <br />As an example, the Bracketts Point Development, is taking 13 acres that <br />has one annual property tax After this development is complete you <br />now have 5 separate properties paying property taxes and we can <br />assume that the combined property taxes from the five separate <br />properties generates considerable more revenue in annual property <br />taxes than the one property tax before the development. <br />