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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by throwway120385 on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:57PM (#39696612)
They don't cover them to the tune of many tens of percentage points where I live. It's to the degree that the state basically has to redistribute wealth from the cities to the counties where the roads are built.

If the communities served by a road had to pay the full price of the road you'd see a lot of little 8-10 house hamlets with 10 million dollar bridges pack up and leave.

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Re:Mass Timber Is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing S... by throwaway14356 on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @04:11PM (#39696793)
long ago in the netherlands the road in front of your house was your responsibility. You could agree with your neighbors to a crappy road but with loss of status and probably the value of the home. (The last remnant was the requirement to remove weeds. That was how I found out.)
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