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Jase Slaughter (Guest)

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84069

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Raleigh City Hall

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Potholes

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on 02/25/2011

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Whats the update on the 1/2 street wide pothole that is now about 5-6in DEEP!

I know the city is trying to put this off on the NEW property owners that are there like the ABC store and the BP that the hole is in between but this issue has been here for a long time and needs to be fixed before it causes a major accident and someone gets hurt.

Having the ABC store and BP pay to have it fixed will result in them taking forever to do so as they are as in the dark on the issue as anyone else after speaking with both personally.

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Acknowledged City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)

We have sent the property owners a letter notifying them that the street is not safe, and that they need to bring the street up to standard and have it accepted by the City. We cannot ask the taxpayers of the rest of the City to bear the burden of this cost when it is the property owners responsibility to do so before it can be accepted for permanent maintenance by the citizens of the City. If they fail to do so, we will recommend to the City Council that the street be improved and that the property owners be assessed 100% of the cost so that it can be accepted by the City for maintenance. This will likely not take place until our annual paving program in the summer at the earliest. The problem is that several of the outparcels are owned by national franchises. Their local franchisees probably are in the dark about this issue, but it is the property owners' responsibility to rectify this situation. The tenants/franchisees can probably facilitate this if they push back on their national organizations to do something. I will see if I can get some idea about when to expect a public project with 100% assessment to be recommended, approved by Council and implemented.

02/28/2011 · Flag Flagged
City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)

Because this street was never completed to standard and offered for maintenance to the City, it is the property owners' responsibility to do this and it is not fair to expect the citizens of the rest of the City to pay for this. We have sent a letter to the property owners making note of the situation. Because several of the owners are national corporations we are not confident of a speedy solution. To the extent the local franchisees push back on their corporate property owners it may facilitate some kind of solution. The backup plan is to ask the City Council to approve a construction project to bring the street up to standard and assess the abutting property owners 100% of the cost, but even this has a cost to taxpayers at large because our assessment rules allow property owners up to 10 years to pay off the assessment, with the rest of the citizens of the City holding the bag in the interim. I will try to get an update as to when to expect that we would act to do an assessment project.

02/28/2011 · Flag Flagged
City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)

An update...The City Council voted to wait 1 month to see if we get any responses from the letter. Then their intent is to authorize a hearing on a City project with 100% assessment.

03/01/2011 · Flag Flagged
Jase Slaughter (Registered User)

Seems that they have somewhat fixed the pothole but it is no where near up to city code or what one would think it would take for it to be up to code in order for the city to be able to take the street over.

03/22/2011 · Flag Flagged
Closed City of Raleigh 3 (Verified Official)

The Council took the following action today. This should ultimately solve the problem. I cannot predict right now when the project will commence but it will likely take place during the summer construction season:

The Raleigh City Council voted unanimously today to move forward with a City-initiated project to make improvements to Olympia Drive.

Located in Renaissance Park in south Raleigh, Olympia Drive has deteriorated and is in need of repair. The City had hoped the six property owners on Olympia Drive would assume the costs of the improvements in a petition effort. The City sent letters to the property owners about the petition proposal but only two responded, with one owner indicating they do not support the project.

The City is proposing that 100 percent of the construction cost for the improvements be assessed to the abutting property owners. The assessments would range from $3,180 to $10,303. In addition, the City would pay the approximately $15,200 cost of the improvements adjacent to the Wilmington Street right-of-way. The total cost of the project is approximately $50,100, with the six property owners paying approximately $34,900 and the City approximately $15,200.

The City Council will schedule a public hearing on the proposed assessments for the Olympia Drive improvements.

04/05/2011 · Flag Flagged

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