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[ronott1]

Quote: My Mom's house in Redding, CA used to be on the North end. They built a road, filled in a pond and built 30 new houses.

I would be suspicious since:

No notice before starting work
No minutes from the meeting.

The road may be being paid for by a private developer.

I hope not.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I hate to say it but you're probably right. There's a tiny little horrid private dirt road across the street from me that goes down to a large pond (lake size but not deep enough to warrant lake status) that has had no activity for the past 4 years (except my ex husband used to sit in his truck at the end of the road and watch the house to make sure I wasn't cheating on him after I kicked him out) that suddenly this spring has had a bunch of trucks going in and out every weekend. I walked down the (private) road a few times, when I first had this house, and there was nothing there except a picnic table and a fire pit. Now there's a No Trespassing sign up plus the increased activity.

I just refinanced, too, but hopefully my "nice" house will sell quickly if it comes to that.

I'm going to call the town office tomorrow, or flirt with a construction worker to get the poop.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

And the only thing I have going that might mean I'm overreacting (what, me? no

NEVER!) is that in October 2010 the road crews came out and built a drainage ditch along my road. They even dug up the ends of our driveways and placed one of those pipes under it for better drainage. I got no notice then, either (or a bill). I know they did that because our road used to wash out with every storm and they'd have to spend more time doing the grading, so it benefited them to fix the drainage issue.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

I would like to post some pictures, first I have to down load them to my profile...so far that hasn't worked...going to try down sizing them next. Should have taken some pictures of the chickens sitting in the snow drifts today. Yeah, just sitting. Fed some in the coop and others flew over to the poarch...they find walking in such deep snow difficult and some are roosting on the wooden fence next to the coop tonight, some are on the poarch...esp my favorite little roo. So I am thinking any predators will have a difficult time tunneling through 3 to 6 foot drifts tonight. When this stuff melts better I will add some improvements. Maybe just some roosts under the house where they can have a clear area to eat and move around.

 

[Cynthia12]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

 

[ronott1]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

Thank you Cynthia!

Nice picture.

Ron

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

Scg you may have something going there...can you check with zoning and see if there's been permits pulled? One good thing if they do if there will be alot of traffic by and people looking to buy, they might see your for sale sign....maybe you can plant some fast growing hedge along thefrount of your property. Its too bad there are so many developments and not much left in secluded places. Bummer.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I called the town hall yesterday, demanding answers. Turns out it was much less nefarious than it could have been... apparently the plow zone areas have been switched up a bit, and the plow guy has about another mile of the "big road" to plow than the previous years. The new "plow turn around" is the road I live off (which has a nice wide maybe 40-50 foot road frontage versus a normal small road which has about 12 feet) so the plow guy asked for it to be paved to make him less likely to be stuck. They paved the opening to the road and had "a little bit of money left over" so they paved down past the first driveway and stopped before the second driveway on my road. They're gone now and I still technically live on the dirt section of the road

No idea what the people across from me are doing but I'm thinking I should accidentally let the goats out one day to "explore" and then have to go locate them. Down that road.

 

[ronott1]

I called the town hall yesterday, demanding answers. Turns out it was much less nefarious than it could have been... apparently the plow zone areas have been switched up a bit, and the plow guy has about another mile of the "big road" to plow than the previous years. The new "plow turn around" is the road I live off (which has a nice wide maybe 40-50 foot road frontage versus a normal small road which has about 12 feet) so the plow guy asked for it to be paved to make him less likely to be stuck. They paved the opening to the road and had "a little bit of money left over" so they paved down past the first driveway and stopped before the second driveway on my road. They're gone now and I still technically live on the dirt section of the road

No idea what the people across from me are doing but I'm thinking I should accidentally let the goats out one day to "explore" and then have to go locate them. Down that road.

That is good news!

Ron

 

[dsqard]

This is SCG

"Who me????????" "I'm just looking for my goats is all"