Residents and staff clash over repair vs. reconstruction classification for Oro Boulder drain
Landowners urged a repair approach to limit assessment increases; staff said prior maintenance attempts (circa 2012) proved insufficient and that changing tile size or grade would be reconstruction under state code, which carries different assessment and procedural rules.
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Several landowners at the hearing urged classifying the work as repair instead of reconstruction to limit how much assessments could increase. Tim Schopp and others argued that replacing bowed or failed sections to original condition should be treated as repair and that a repair classification would allow the county to avoid larger reconstruction assessments.
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