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28 <br /> normal vehicle noise you can add in the noise from the muffler-less gas powered go-carts <br /> and scooters that the little kids like to run around in. <br /> Litter: <br /> Most lot owners have only 70 to 90 feet to keep free of litter- that which is <br /> thrown out of vehicles, dropped from garbage trucks, and dropped by predestrians - <br /> everthing from fast-food containers to beer and liquor bottles. We not only have the front <br /> street to clean up along but the side street as well. <br /> Dog owners seen to favor corner lots as toilets for their animals. Every time we <br /> plan to mow grass or do some raking, we must first go along both streets with a shovel <br /> and pick up droppings. Great fun! <br /> M inten nce: <br /> As soon as snow piles up at the intersection, the public works people bring their <br /> front loaders over and scrape back snow along the corner curbs. Every year we have to <br /> re-establish grass wherever the plows have scraped sod away and wherever the <br /> intersection salt and sand have killed the grass. <br /> If state law requires a portion of the repairs to be assessed to the abutting property <br /> owner, there would be several more equitable ways to calculate such assessments. <br /> 1.) Assuming that the repairs increase property values by some percentage, <br /> higher-priced properties will experience a greater increase in value. Instead of simply using <br /> frontage footage, properties could be assessed in proportion to their market value. <br /> 2.) Assuming that the repairs are being made because of wear and tear, <br /> assessments could be based on the amount of use by each property owner. Homes with <br /> four or five bedrooms are likely to have more people using the streets for their private <br /> vehicles and are likely to require more in the way of services such as garbage pickup, <br /> school bus transportation, and delivery services. They also put more demand on water <br /> lines and sewer mains. <br /> There are many days in which we don't use the streets at all, while our neighbors, <br /> with three generations of people in one house, have four or five vehicles in and out all day <br /> long. The village could base assessments on the number of vehicles registered at each <br /> address or the assessments could be based on the number of bedrooms at each house. <br /> 3.) Our lot is listed on your rolls as 90 feet by 125 feet or 11,250 square feet. I <br /> believe the property at 3326 Edward Street is 75 feet by 237 feet or 17,775 square.feet. <br /> That property is probably valued at almost twice what ours is, they have probably three <br /> 2 <br />