[WSBARP] Road Maintenance cost allocation

[Craig Sjostrom]

I've done something along the lines of dividing the road into segments, with
each owner in a given segment paying X percentage of the total road costs,
and each segment pays more or less depending on how far away it is from the
public road (i.e. the farther away segments pay less than the closer ones)

 

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Sent: Monday, November 30, 2020 2:48 PM
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Subject: [WSBARP] Road Maintenance cost allocation

 

All,

 

I'm hoping for suggestions regarding a road maintenance agreement for a
private road. There's approximately 10-15 homes on a private, dead-end road.
I need to determine how to allocate costs for maintenance and improvements
of the road. From where the city road connects to the private road, the
first house you come to obviously uses a smaller portion of the private road
as compared to the last house on the end of the private road. The plat map
states that "All maintenance and/or construction of private roads is the
responsibility of the lot owners and shall be in direct relationship to
usage of said road."

 

Is there a common way of calculating the percentage or amount each homeowner
should be responsible for based on use? Like where the house on the end of
the private road would pay more than the first house on the private road?
I'm just having trouble determining what that calculation might look like. 

 

I would greatly appreciate any suggestions or sample provisions. Thank you!

 

Tim

 

Timothy C. Lehr

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