Majority of Florida condo board quit in 2019 as squabbling residents dragged out plans for repairs

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48. That's what is short sighted about this kind of thing

Even if you live on a county or city maintained roads in some cases property owners can be assessed for improvements.

Thirty years ago the county decided to pave every road in the county - they had a special tax going for county improvements, had done most of what that was originally planned for a decided they wanted to be out of the dirt road business. So they paved the road in front of our farm.

Normally when the county did that sort of improvement, each property owner would have a special assessment proportionate to the length of frontage, so many of the property owners along the road were happy that their property values would increased without having to pay that. Of course, the county assessed higher property values so everybody's taxes went up - something many had not factored into their decision to approve the improvement. But we each saved a significant amount by signing over some of our frontage in return for having the county's special taxes paying for the road upgrade.