Important CRE Meeting!

[greyhound]

I know how you feel. I appreciate the fact that you don't want to pay for our roads.

If you live in a "private" community in Calvert County, you should really look into the Common Ownership Infrastructure Advisory Committee [COIAC]. We made recommendations five years ago and the BOCC only granted a charter for the committee last year after some of us demanded it. The study is available on my website... click on the picture of the Infrastructure Task Force Report on the COIAC page.

My community is doing just fine. Thank you for being honest with your view points. It has helped me decided who I will be voting for.

 

[residentofcre]

My community is doing just fine. Thank you for being honest with your view points. It has helped me decided who I will be voting for.

Don't you just love living in Calvert County?

I just love it here. This is the best place in the world.... awesome...

 

[greyhound]

Don't you just love living in Calvert County?

I just love it here. This is the best place in the world.... awesome...

I love Calvert County. I was born and raised here as were my parents and their parents. I plan to live here my whole life.

 

[residentofcre]

I love Calvert County. I was born and raised here as were my parents and their parents. I plan to live here my whole life.

My family came here 13 generations ago from Galway, Ireland... then my mom married a sailor and I grew up on in navy towns like New London & Virginia Beach... it's good to be home....

 

[Oz]

These fuel taxes I am talking about are taxes paid by the people who live on community roads that are no longer private. Gates were removed long ago. County transportation vehicles use them on a regular basis.

Those people paying taxes at the gas pump are driving on public roads to reach the gas station. So they are receiving benefit from the taxes they pay.

Just because the community chose to remove the gates from their private community, doesn't mean that the roads are now public roads or deserve public funds to maintain them.

I drove through CRE extensively on Saturday, and those roads are narrow. Some have trees hanging in one travel lane. Some are nothing more than gravel driveways with a street sign. The roads in CRE are a mess.

I hope you're the only candidate who wants the public to assume that liability because it's a bad idea, and more government waste if you can actually convince 2 other commissioners to go along with you.

Is there a precedent somewhere in which a county actually assumed private roads in such poor condition? I know St. Mary's County government will only adopt private roads that are first brought up to county standards. I don't see that opportunity with CRE roads.