Anyway you cut it, that sounds like a cluster fiasco just waiting to happen, and it just did.
Yes, asking a group to cooperate is just asking for trouble. :laughing:
Funny, but sadly true.
Before I was born, my father and a business partner bought 20 acres and subdivided it into 17 lots. They had city water and the local natural gas and electric lines run in, but left the road gravel. It was just within the city limits, on the outskirts of town at the time. Fast forward 15 years, several of them wanted city curbs and asphalt. City demanded sewer under the paved street. 9 of them wanted it. 8 of them didn't. They passed a barrett law and we had to comply. And since my dad had kept the largest frontage lot for himself, he had to pay the most in taxes, to cover the length of sewer, asphalt and curbing in front of his place. He had the last laugh, though. The company the city hired to do the street work didn't prep the soil correctly, a large rain came in a couple days before the asphalt and washed out all the curbs for a couple hundred yards. They had to bring in fill, repack it, repour everything.... and it happened again! The entire street was closed for close to two years. And a few years after that, the curbs started sinking, and they had to close the street again for several months to dig the street up 3' from each side. My dad had the only access from the back-side of his property for people to walk through to get to their houses, and, of course, he refused to let anyone that voted for the barrett law to trespass on his property. They had to take quite the hike for two years.
Anyhow, what I gathered from that experience, is that it made bad-blood between the neighbors that lasted until the day they either moved or died. 20-30 years along and they still wouldn't talk to each other. And several of the kids in the neighborhood would get into the inevitable "my father says your father ....." squabbles.
So pick your neighborly battles with care. It can effect the rest of your life, and your neighbor's life.