Nathan Williams, the Road District attorney,
and I had a
very productive meeting this morning. Attached is a copy of the
agenda, and he
is cc on this email.
Nathan looked at the easement documents for
sites ?#1 (On Fairfield
Cir. near 3 Canyons Blvd.)
and #3 (on Fairfield near Paso Venado). He said that from a legal
point of
view, # 3 was preferred for the mailboxes because the easement
agreement is
actually between the Road District and the previous landowner, and
the
agreement was broader in scope that the easement document for the
Palominas
School District property adjacent to site #1. In fact, he says
that we don¡¯t
need the owner¡¯s permission at site #3 so long as the mailboxes
and parking
area are in the easement. He can write a letter to the property
owner telling
them that the Road District intends to install mailboxes and give
them 30 days
to respond.
As I mentioned in a previous email, the
easement is 40ft
wide and the road, Fairfield Cir., is on the east side of the
easement. There
isn¡¯t enough space on the easement east of the road for the
cluster mailboxes,
thus they must be on the west side of the road. See the attached
diagram and
photos for the location and site plan of the mailbox area.
A major physical advantage of site #3 is that
we can take use
the existing partly graveled gate entrance immediately south of
the site and
the partly graveled ¡°pull-out¡± across the road for parking and
making turns. Those
areas make the site relatively spacious. ?
This is your opportunity to give a thumbs up or
down to site
#3. I¡¯ll assume that everyone checks their email at least every
other day, so if
you are going to respond, I will expect you to do so by midnight
Wednesday,
March 10. If you give the site a thumbs down, please justify your
response, propose
a reasonable alternative site, or state that you don¡¯t want
mailboxes.
The Road District is a hugely important asset
of Fairfield
Estates, and I know from discussions with my neighbors that many
of us wouldn¡¯t
be living here if the main roads weren¡¯t paved. Five roads or
portions of roads
remain to be paved, but they total less than three-quarters of a
mile.
The Road District also is a significant tax
burden. Look at
your property tax bill, and you will find that it¡¯s probably
costing you about
$1,000/yr. in taxes. Nathan told me that there is a governance
document for the
Road District although he doesn¡¯t have a copy. He said that
special districts
are usually governed similar to HOAs. I assume that means there
should be an annual
meeting of the members (taxpayers) and an annual financial
statement and
budget. Does anyone have a copy of the Road District governance
document? If not,
I¡¯ll get a copy from the County Recorder Office after the
mailboxes are history.
Ken
