Wellington official: Crack-sealing roads ‘not acceptable’ for... | www.palmbeachpost.com

This is a MUST read for people in Lake Worth who had a difficult time connecting the relationship between property value and quality infrastructure. A council member in Wellington is concerned about the Village's method for repairing roads by filling cracks. There are sound financial reasons to use this to extend the life of roads, but she thinks it detracts from how she wants others to experience her community. Click title for link. From the article:

For instance, on Lake Worth Road, it cost about $12,000 to crack-seal the pavement from the city limits west to South Shore Boulevard, compared to the $570,000 it would have cost to resurface the same stretch of pavement.
Gerwig said during that workshop that she “understands the dollar value.”
“But if my home is on that portion of Paddock Drive that looks like spaghetti and I’m trying to sell it, I’m going to hate your guts,” she said. “You look at it and you feel like you’re in an incredibly poor community that can’t afford to pave its roads — and that’s not exactly where we are.
“I love saving money, and I love keeping roads that don’t have to be re-milled — but I don’t want to de-value the entire neighborhood,” she added.