Comments on: ACHD Road Budget Set For Approval

By: Zippo

Zippo — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 05:13:37 +0000

Now if we could just get West-Ada schrewel district (former Meridian district) to tell us what they are gonna do with 104 million. They said they need 60 to build a new school… what’s the rest for.

And your taxes will go down they say??

By: Easterner

Easterner — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 17:10:40 +0000

Grumpy ole Guy, Sure it’s a tough job, but ACHD is well entrenched in the planning process.
For the last 20 years West Ada has been developing at gang-buster speed. Yet a drive down the full length of Cloverdale shows ya our roads out there are hosed-up. The need on Cloverdale is not ‘ever-changing’ and ACHD owns and controls 100% of the roads, including seizing (buying) private property as necessary.

The Lake Hazel Extension listed above is another example… hmmm, maybe that should have been done when they developed that area- with developer impact fees.

Instead ACHD makes a 5 lane Whitewater Blvd to go a mile; a 5 & 6 lane bridge going to Harris Ranch to benefit 1 developer; a downtown Meridian cluster; a PR department bigger than any other agency in the state; and a design team that produces something like the DT bike lanes.

Meanwhile, M3 and every other major developer holding development land is paying taxes on agricultural land at pennies on the true value.
Non-ag owners paying taxes at ag rates is a big problem.
ACHD is not good.

By: Grumpy ole Guy

Grumpy ole Guy — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 03:35:23 +0000

I certainly do not envy ACHD their role. It seems that they have a never ending role to anticipate a need that is ever-changing, without any real power to predict or control the changes which determine the the factors which cause the needs and changes. These all seem to be important safety projects and scratches on the surface of the total needs. Too bad their magic wands and money trees are not working.