The Oakland County Road Commission (RCOC) owns our roads and prioritizes major roads like Quarton, Lone Pine and Lahser, over neighborhood roads like ours. Even with that prioritization they can’t maintain most of the major roads in the county with the funds they have.

The Oakland County Road Commission has been extremely forthcoming, and they readily admit they do not have the funds to fix neighborhood roads, nor do they see any funding coming for neighborhood roads in the foreseeable future.

We’ve searched to identify federal, state, or local funds to pay for the necessary road rebuilding effort in Vernor Estates.

Actually, our roads situation in Vernor Estates is not unique.

Many neighborhoods in Bloomfield Township have authorized special assessment districts within the last 10 years, as a last resort to fixing their own dire roads issues.

Some examples of neighborhoods that have successfully repaired their roads using the same process we will employ: Bloomfield Village, Still Meadow, Pinewood Court, Lauren Court, Kirkwood, Chestnut Run South, Chestnut Run North, Hickory Heights, Overbrook, Wabeek 5&6, Concord Green, Dell Rose, Thorncrest, Kentmoor, Hickory Grove, Echo Park, Sandalwood, Carillon Hills, Knob Hill.

No, the Special Assessment for roads is linked to the property.

If you move from Vernor Estates, the unbilled special assessment will stay with the property – just like school or park millages.

Any parcel in a section that doesn’t sign the petition is essentially a “NO” vote. The minimum level of support needed for a sucessful petition to form a SAD is 51% of the frontage in a section, and 51% of the parcels in a section.

Volunteers will be going door to door to gather signatures on the petitions for a section. Please be respectful of the volunteers’ time and effort - if you do not support the petition, please let the volunteer know instead of avoiding the discussion. Save them the effort involved in continuing to contact you.

You can talk to the neighbors on your street (and refer them to this website with any questions), or reach out and let us know that you’d be willing to volunteer.

It is important for all residents to have the information they need to make an informed decision about whether to sign a petition to support the SAD.