Hearings set for special assessment districts
By Dana Casadei
Two road improvement projects in Bloomfield Village will move forward with public hearings in early January after the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees voted to set the date at their meeting on Monday, December 9.
Public hearings for both projects will be heard on Monday, January 13, at the board meeting, something that treasurer Michael Schostak clarified to the packed room. Those at the evening’s meeting this week were welcome to speak about both proposed projects, but no one did.
Jennifer Werthman, deputy assessor, spoke first about creating a special assessment district (SAD) 428 for road paving within the Judson Bradway’s Bloomfield Village Subdivision and Judson Bradway’s Bloomfield Village No. 1 Subdivision.
SAD 428 will consist of 11,055 linear feet or 2.09 miles of roadway and be located within Section 27, becoming phase three of five – the gold phase – for this project in Bloomfield Village.
Within this proposed SAD there are 150 properties and a total unit of benefit of 150, with the cost per parcel currently estimated at $50,434 per full unit of benefit, equaling a grand total of $7,565,100 for the entire project.
Werthman confirmed that 52 percent of the property owners signed the petition consisting of 53.77 percent of the road frontage.
As far as the work itself, SAD 428 will allow for a complete pulverizing of the existing road, and four-inch asphalt pavement to be placed over an aggregate base with full depth cold milling asphalt removal.
This project would allow for a total curb and gutter removal and replacement, total under drain installation with sodded shoulders, and minor drainage improvements within SAD 428. A maximum five foot approach will be constructed too, where necessary, so existing driveways will have a smooth transition from the newly paved roadway.
With the second proposed SAD, Werthman joked that her presentation would be similar to the one prior, and she wasn’t kidding given that they were almost identical.
SAD 429 – phase four of five the Bloomfield Village project – will have identical work done as SAD 428, just in a different part of Section 27, and will consist of 10,798 linear feet or 2.05 miles of roadway.
The paving in SAD 429 will be among parts of the Judson Bradway’s Bloomfield Village No. 2 Subdivision, Judson Bradway’s Bloomfield Village No. 9 Subdivision, Judson Bradway’s Bloomfield Village No. 10 Subdivision, Judson Bradway’s Bloomfield Village No. 11 Subdivision, Judson Bradway’s Bloomfield Village No. 12 Subdivision, and Red Oaks of Bloomfield Village Subdivision.
This proposed SAD will come at a slightly higher cost than the other, with an estimated total of $8,353,116.15 for the entire project, and a cost of $55,318.65 per parcel revealing a full unit of benefit.
Out of the 152 properties in the proposed SAD, one won’t be assessed because it’s a drainage basin. Over half – 54.30 percent – of the property owners signed the petition, with 56.01 percent of them consisting of the road frontage.
Trustees Valerie Murray and Chris Kolinski each commented on how happy they were, as were the residents they had spoken with, about the completion of phases one and two for this project, and how much the people want it.
“We appreciate you getting this across the finish line,” Kolinski said. “Thank you for all your hard work.”
Both public hearings will be held at the board of trustees meeting on Monday, Jan. 13.
