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Make it a toll bridge until it's paid for.

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Originally Posted by ureout (Post 1301018)

this bridge/road was built was over a marshy/bog area, who was the engineering firm that hired to do core samples of the soil? I would think they would hold some responsibility

you must know by now the "family" hired the cheapest help and did no underground investigation

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Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1301279)

Here is a bridge thread. https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...t=Morse+Bridge

Has anyone living here been assessed anything? We are past nine years and we haven't ever been assessed anything.

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Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1301434)

I don't know how you can say that when the strata here can have a sinkhole at any time. Shale. Shale. Shale.

A million dollars is not excessive when you think that is the cost of two or three homes. I imagine that the money was budgeted for repairs of this nature and just like everything else we will never have to have any change in our amenity fees or other fees.

Uhhhhhh . . . It appears that you are missing the point. No one is saying anything about a special assessment -- in the past, now or in the future. A special assessment has nothing to do with this.

What bothers people is not the cost, but the way things are done. That only people paying are from certain districts when it is a public street that can be used by anyone in the world. That some "real" facts are swept under the rug, or the bridge in this case. What are they? Who knows??!? That the people who should be responsible for paying for any necessary repair should be the county and Morse (a public street built on private land).

Now do you get it?

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Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 1301480)

There are those who will have conspiracy theories no matter what. There are those like me that think the developers have done a really good job planning and building this place.

Here is something I found. A Million and a quarter seems like a reasonable amount to fix this bridge.

http://www.dot.state.fl.us/planning/...ts/Bridges.pdf

Then let Morse and the county fight over who should be paying for the repair between the two of them, and not put the unfair burden of the cost on residents!