As I was thumbing thought this week's junk mail, I noticed something real interesting...a city calender.
At first I didn't give it much thought and as I thumbed through it, it dawned on me "Hey I don't live in the city, why am I getting a calender." Then the paranoid fear set in..."What if they annex my house into the city, what if they already have already annexed me in and I somehow missed it?"
As I made my way to the computer to check the city GIS to see if I was actually already in the city, I started thinking.... I would get the advantages of spring cleanup and leaf pickup how nice that would be to have someone come to my house and pickup my old trash and leaves once a year. Since I don't have a tree, so no leaves that little "perk" is gone. I actually pay for a service to collect my garbage on a weekly basis instead of annually but I guess I can collect my garbage through out the year to give to the city, instead of my weekly pickups.
I guess the other "perk" of being in the city is actually being noticed in our little area of Pear Park. If you live south of E road between 30 and 32 roads you are in "no-mans-land". You are not part of all the efforts to be part of the new City of Clifton and too far away to be part of Grand Junction proper. Maybe that isn't a "perk" maybe that is a blessing.
I would get a say in city elections, that would be nice to vote down every monetary request of the city. Is it worth it thought when one of those proposals actually slip through and I end up with yet more taxes.
I would get the service of the city police and fire departments but with no new building downtown, I'm not sure how they could respond in a timely manner.
So taxes vs. voting privilege being a wash, slower police and fire service and no need for leaf pickup, my sole advantage to being in the city over the county is an annual pick of my junk, that saves me the 5 or 10 bucks it costs me to haul it to the dump, all by myself, once a year. That couple hundred extra I will be paying in property taxes is well worth being in the city then.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
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Interesting observations there. You are certainly in the firing line for annexation being in Pear Park. Best of luck. The easiest way of finding out if you're in the city or not is to call the non-emergency dispatch number and ask them. They handle everything in the county, and track these jurisdictional changes rather well.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't worry about getting the calendar in the mail. The most interesting observation I had about it was that among all of the photos in that calendar, only about 3 were taken of things in the city. Everything else was in the county, or were panoramic views taken from places too remote for annexation, or on federal land (BLM or the Monument) that will never be in the city.
Keep up the good work here...John