{"id":9714,"date":"2014-01-04T09:25:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T14:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=9714"},"modified":"2014-01-04T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T14:25:29","slug":"letter-caln-needs-to-address-kings-grant-residents-plight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=9714","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Caln needs to address Kings Grant residents’ plight"},"content":{"rendered":"

To The Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Letters1\"<\/a>Thank you so much for adding a great value with your online local news, The Coatesville Times<\/em>! A much needed way of communication opened up with your initiative and I am wishing you all the success!<\/p>\n

The reason of my letter is the snow and icy roads.<\/p>\n

What a surprise, huh? We built\/purchased our\u00a0first dream\u00a0home in Kings Grant, Caln Township by Dewey Homes, put down the much-needed\u00a0down payment and paying the mortgage ever since. We are one of those young professionals who moved into the area several years ago when so many new developments were being built, some finished and dedicated so the township takes care of the snow removal and\u00a0maintenance and\u00a0some not. Ours is one of those which were not dedicated since the economy downturn came, builder unable to sell, no people are getting approved for mortgages by bank and probably for hundreds others reasons.<\/p>\n

We also pay all\u00a0our taxes as a good citizen would do like state, local, federal, school, property and list could go on and on. You would rightfully assume the township\/government would provide\u00a0basic maintenance like snow removal in timely manner avoid accidents and safety hazards. Unfortunately, this is not the case with Caln Township.<\/p>\n

Basically, the township and the builder are playing the back and forth game who is responsible for removing (and paying !)\u00a0the snow. Since our roads are not dedicated, the township says it is the builder’s responsibility to clean our roads. The catch is the builder is mostly nowhere to be found, non-responsive and we, the residents, are left out\u00a0in the snow (literally) at every single snow storm since 2005!\u00a0(Our development\u00a0started\u00a0in 2005.)\u00a0The current process is we get snowed in, nobody comes to clean the roads, we need to call the township to complain since the builder was a no-show, then the township\u00a0and builder play the game who needs to do what and when.<\/p>\n

It’s a commonly known fact all builders require\u00a0put down a certain amount of money (in escrow) to the township where they have a planned and approved development to be built as a security fund in case something goes wrong (e.g. builder goes bankrupt and\u00a0development is not finished) to make sure there are enough funds to finish roads, sewers etc. Where is the money now? Why can not Caln township use the funds to dedicate the roads and officially make them one of theirs? It’s obvious the builder is no longer selling and building homes since 2009.<\/p>\n

Kings Grant’s lots\u00a0are 80% sold out which means 88 properties are paying taxes to Caln Township. Residents no longer want to hear excuses why our roads are not maintained, we all need solutions why we can not have clean roads in the past eight years?<\/p>\n

Why can not Caln Township step up and do the right thing for the people who are living here and paying taxes here? Our current and past Home Owners Association boards have been trying to find solutions for years where we get the response it’s under process and should happen, but every winter, every snowstorm is just another mess where nobody, nor the township, nor the builder wants to pick up the bill, remove the snow\u00a0and ice etc.<\/p>\n

How many snowstorms and years\u00a0are still coming until we have a solution here?<\/p>\n

Teri Viljoen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kings Grant resident, <\/strong><\/p>\n

Caln<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To The Editor, Thank you so much for adding a great value with your online local news, The Coatesville Times! A much needed way of communication opened up with your initiative and I am wishing you all the success! The reason of my letter is the snow and icy roads. What a surprise, huh? We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[301],"tags":[63,3407,3408],"class_list":["post-9714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-caln","tag-dewey-homes","tag-kings-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9717,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions\/9717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}