At the time, my wife and I lived in a single-family house on a cul-de-sac with a paved road. When the road was surfaced, the city paid half the cost while my neighbors and I paid the other half. I ran the numbers; it would take 37 years of my neighbors and I paying taxes for the city to merely recoup the cost they had initially put into building the road. That was longer than the road was going to last.
