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1'425 which concerns me from a fairness and a future administrative problem point of view is the idea of allowing phased developments to come in as private roads with the notion that when they are expanded at some later point in time that there will be the imposition of public road requirements . The fairness viewpoint troubles me because you are burdening only a group of the lot owners with the cost of bringing the road up to public standards and whereas the whole subdivision will benefit. I am also concerned about it from an administrative point of view. The County, in its Private Road Maintenance Agreement reserves the right to require public dedication of these roads ; however, actually acquiring that public dedication may be another matter altogether. It is going to involve Staff , the developer and possibly others going out and saying to the property owners that they agreed when the document was signed that they would dedicate the road public. One owner wants to perhaps subdivide a six acre lot into two (2 ) three acre lots but the County will not approve it unless the road is built to state standards . If the other property owner does not want the property subdivided, then that property cannot be subdivided. At the very minimum there would be a public relations problem with the County as the ' bad guy ' . So I think that the focus of the Staff and the Board on these subdivisions should be on the ultimate development of the property that surrounds or that is involved in the project. I guess I would perceive it differently depending on who owns the adjoining property. I have not really developed all of the ways to look at each one because there are going to be case by case problems. The developer tries to recover some costs for future development. The problem with that is that later development may not be possible because of the fact that you cannot get the public dedication needed . When that happens, the County is going to be the one where the focus is going to be and creates the fairness question of who is to pay for the cost. It seems to me that if it will ultimately be a public road subdivision, it ought to be planned initially as a public road subdivision so that all lot owners bear the cost on a fair basis. " Yuhasz voiced his objections noting that there is some advantage to ' coming In first' on any endeavor. That advantage may be that at some future point you may have a paved road of which you did not pay your fair share . Gledhill responded that he would strike the fairness question . From the County ' s point of view it is unmanageable and is a legitimate concern of the Planning Staff and Planning Board . Yuhasz