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Commissioner explains reservations, developer role and compensation for right-of-way
Summary
At the Kingsbury meeting Commissioner Aude explained that thoroughfare map lines represent reserved rights-of-way that developers, not the county initially, would often be responsible for building, and said land taken for such use would be paid at fair market value.
Commissioner Jacqueline Aude told residents that county thoroughfare lines are reservations intended to obligate future right-of-way; actual construction generally follows sale and development of land and demonstration of traffic needs. "The reservation is... so that it will obligate the developer to pay for the road construction if the road construction happens," she said.
On compensation, Aude responded to a resident's question by saying any property used for a right-of-way would be purchased at fair market value: "Any amount of property that a person owns that would be used for this sort of purpose, yes, they would be paid for that for a fair market value of whatever their property is." She cautioned that many residents nevertheless prefer to keep family land and said acquisition and litigation are sometimes part of the process if proposals and negotiations fail.
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